With Saturday’s win in the Stephen Foster, Godolphin’s four-year-old Maxfield upped his record to a stellar seven wins in eight starts. The son of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Street...
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...
The crowd was ready. Packed into every nook and cranny of the Santa Anita grandstand on Saturday to witness America's horse, their horse, take his rightful place in the winner's circle...
I'm not a blueblood. At least not in the racing industry. My father was not a famous trainer. My mother did not own Secretariat. My brother has never tacked up...
Gary Stevens has seen some things. The kinds of things only visible from the saddle in a career spanning nearly four decades and 28,700 races. But in Friday's Breeders' Cup...
Two days, 13 races, hundreds of the world's top thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers all competing on one track with $26 million up for grabs. It's thoroughbred racing's grandest stage. It's...
The Breeders’ Cup is the equivalent of the Super Bowl and Christmas combined for horse racing fans. The motto of the Breeders’ Cup is “the best is yet to come”, and...
Two days, twelve races, $26,500,000 in total purse money. The 2016 Breeders' Cup is ready to roll this Friday and Saturday when the world's best horsemen and thoroughbreds converge on...
The NTRA has its poll, and we have ours. And our poll is longer, stronger and righter. We are but a fortnight away from the Breeders' Cup 2016 at Santa...
Of American Pharoah’s Travers Stakes loss in late August, turf writer Steve Haskin wrote, “He and Frosted gutted each other and crawled home.” NBC’s Jerry Bailey, himself a Hall of...
One of the more mainstream criticisms of horse racing is the overall lack of transparency and access. Sure, you can stroll into any racetrack in America, plop down a couple bets...
Two days, 13 races, hundreds of the world's top thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers all competing on one track with $26 million up for grabs. It's thoroughbred racing's grandest stage. It's...
It’s 25 minutes until post time on a picturesque October afternoon at Keeneland Racecourse. Out of the jockey’s room steps a young woman dressed for work: tall black riding boots,...
