Channel Archives: Racing

Little new information is known about the medical condition of Champion Justify following the announcement earlier this week that the 13th winner of the American Triple Crown has been taken...

Swans glide across a large lake while a central fountain continuously sprays water. Spring grass is green as the eye can see in all directions. A peacock struts across a...

If you’ve just tuned into racing this Triple Crown season after taking a post-Breeders’ Cup break, you may have heard a new name on the scene—Justify. The Kentucky Derby and...

It's very possible the 143rd running of the Preakness Stakes will be in conditions as messy as the Kentucky Derby. Rain is forecast through most of the week and on...

On a night when five track records were broken, a French horse not named Goldikova won a third straight championship-level turf race and a European-based first-time-on-dirt runner pulverized a quality...

Super Saturday at Meydan is meant to separate Dubai World Cup contenders from the pretenders and it certainly did that as North America gobbled a gate-to-wire 5 1/4-length victory over Thunder...

Godolphin's Winter Lightning was expected to run away with the featured 1 1/8-miles UAE Oaks for fillies Thursday at Meydan. But there is a reason they run the race and...

We're still a few weeks away from St. Patrick's Day, but Thursday was the "greenest" night so far this year at Meydan, with three group turf features and the highest...

It was doubleheader week in Dubai and the Meydan "players" did not disappoint in a Thursday and Saturday Dubai World Cup Carnival pairing. Godolphin's Gold Town put away a full...

Ever-mercurial Godolphin star Thunder Snow chose to shine by a leisurely neck over North America in the Group 2 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 2 across near 1 1/4 miles of...

A night after the eclipsed blue super moon, the boys in blue eclipsed the competition and remained super, securing a sweep of Group 2 events and a consecutive Dubai World...

Hometown Godolphin enjoyed a grand slam-winning evening Thursday at Meydan highlighted by a comfortable 4 1/2-length win by Promising Run in the featured mile-long Group 2 Cape Verdi turf for...

With North American racing catching its breath before the 2017 Eclipse Awards on Jan. 25, and the $16 million Pegasus World Cup at Florida's Gulfstream Park two days later, this...

In their 2007 hit film "The Bucket List", terminally ill buddies Edward (Jack Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) set out to see the world before theirs ends. Among their stops...

Two days, 13 races, hundreds of the world's top thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers in one place with $28 million up for grabs. It's a battle of bloodlines. American stars versus...

Humans have been breeding and racing thoroughbreds all over the world for centuries, and each year, the best of the best converge at the Breeders' Cup for a weekend of...

Travers Day at Saratoga has always served as one of the sport’s grandest stages; a Vegas-esque buffet complete with delectable appetizers culminating in the main course: The Travers Stakes. Back...

If it takes a village to raise a child, then getting a horse ready for the races certainly requires an equal measure of collaborative nurturing. No one has to teach...

StarLadies Racing enjoyed a strong start right out of the gate on opening weekend at Saratoga. On Friday, promising maiden winner Stainless made her graded stakes debut in the $150,000...

How do you measure a horse's will to win? Past performances are the logical starting point, but statistics only tell part of the story. Horses can amass a heap of...