Category Archives: Racing

The image is seared in the minds of Thoroughbred racing fans. It's the end of the 1999 Belmont Stakes and as Charismatic's Triple Crown hopes fade to a third-place ending,...

This week's Dubai World Cup Carnival featured an unusual two meetings on Thursday and Saturday and more than one unusual finish. It's rare that winning three of six races can...

We all know change can be a good thing. That maxim was proved at the World Cup Carnival as Furia Cruzada changed countries for the fifth time, trainers for the eighth...

Not sure who to pay attention to this Kentucky Derby season? The Kentucky Derby trail is quickly heating up with less than 100 days until the Derby, and it can...

Blue was the color of the fourth meeting of the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Thursday as hometown equine empire Godolphin and its boys in the royal blue silks...

As the world’s richest horse race nears its inaugural running, it seems only fitting that the world’s best big-money rider would not only be involved, but have a major say...

Turning for home with a 1-1/2 length lead and a head full of steam in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, it seemed like a mere formality that California Chrome would...

"Folks talk about ‘second Man o’ Wars’. There ain’t any 'second Man o’ Wars'. This is the greatest hoss of them all. Nobody will ever know how good he was—there...

At 5:30am on Monday morning, polo champion Nic Roldan and friends arrived at Gulfstream Park outside Miami to meet The Champ himself, California Chrome...and what an experience it was. We...

California Chrome was voted 2016 Horse of the Year, an honor which he also won in 2014, at the 46th Annual Eclipse Awards ceremony at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino...

The Al Fahidi Fort is named after Dubai's oldest structure, built in 1787, and the winner of this year's 7-furlong Group 2 feature was 6-year-old Championship, oldest among the top...

Local favorite Reynaldothewizard proved there is still some magic left in his 11-year-old hooves as he poofed away his competitors to win his third consecutive 3/4-mile Dubawi Stakes trophy on the...

If "April is the cruelest month", as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, then January may be the coolest month for horse racing fans, and not just because of the plunging temperatures....

The life of a broodmare manager is not a glamorous one, which means that the life of the significant other to a broodmare manager isn’t either. Sun up to sundown...

In the loaded world of sports, rarely does a horse breakthrough to mainstream acclaim. To draw the general public's waning attention away from the daily deluge of hot takes and sensationalized sound...

It is difficult to tell the claimers from the Derby champions as they press against their paddock fences hoping to seduce the passing tour into parting with just a few...

Driving into Lane's End Farm is a bit of challenge. Between the impossibly green pastures stretching into the horizon, jaw-dropping barns and world class horses turned out in every direction,...

Each year, the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale becomes the epicenter of the global thoroughbred industry. Pedigree analysts pore over thousands of pages as conformation experts dutifully examine every inch and...

California Chrome is heading to stud in 2017 and will stand for a fee of $40,000, Taylor Made Farm's Duncan Taylor announced on Tuesday. The 5-year-old will remain in training through...

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...