Category Archives: Racing

path·find·er/ˈpaTHˌfīndər/ noun: a person who goes ahead and discovers or shows others a path or way. In racing, “finding a path” refers to jockeys’ ability to guide a headstrong animal...

The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia (JCSA) confirmed Monday it is withholding all purse monies from the $20 million Feb. 29 inaugural running of The Saudi Cup. Winner Maximum Security...

"Winning isn’t everything; it's the only thing."  Henry Russell Sanders, UCLA Bruins Coach 1950 “Do your best” Ganbatte (Japanese) Ever since Commodore Perry’s “black ships”—so-called because they belched black smoke...

Sporting events have long served as a comfort in difficult times and racing is no exception. It was 1945. The Allies were still in the midst of World War II...

How We Got Here It seemed as 2020 began, 2019 would be remembered not-so-fondly as Thoroughbred racing’s most challenging year. The 2019 winter meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia,...

A good redemption narrative isn't the kind with tidy edges. It is the type of film that shows us breathtaking highs and crippling lows. The kind that has the courage...

The oldest Thoroughbred breed-shaping sire is gone. A.P. Indy passed away peacefully at age 31 at his Lane’s End Farm home in Versailles, KY Feb. 21. Speaking for the Farm,...

January 2020 was a monster month for Irad Ortiz Jr. On Jan. 21, he jumped off his assignment on Spun to Run in the Jan. 25 $3 million Pegasus World...

A scant two weeks into 2020, merrymakers and numerologists were not the only ones to gladly sweep out the old year and welcome in a new decade. For racing industry...

The 2019 Eclipse Award nominees were announced on Jan. 4. Winners are determined solely by first place votes by the 254 combined eligible members of the National Thoroughbred Writers and...

Haras Barlovento, a leading 68-year-old Peruvian stud farm owned by Boris Schwartzman, will disperse its remaining stock and shutter its stalls following the Dec. 22 criminal armed raid in which...

A week of controversy regarding the future welfare of multiple graded stakes winner and two-time Breeders’ Cup (G1T) Champion Stormy Liberal was resolved Wednesday when new sole owner David Bernsen...

A bad year for horseracing may just be getting worse…or better, if racing fans have any influence. In a statement early Tuesday, trainer Peter Miller, who saddled seven-year-old gelding Stormy...

Princess Dorian, injured while running as an $8,000 claimer in the second race Sunday, Nov. 10 at Del Mar on the third day of its Autumn meet, was humanely euthanized...

The bad luck that visited Santa Anita Park the past year resulting in 37 horse deaths and culminating in the fatal breakdown of four-year-old gelding Mongolian Groom during this year’s...

Santa Anita Park almost escaped unscathed.  Almost. Then the worst thing that could have happened, happened. Two days of wonderful weather and great racing featuring several upsets and a likely...

A turbulent year for horseracing that began with the still not fully understood deaths of now 36 horses at Santa Anita and the controversial disqualification of apparent Kentucky Derby winner...

Fresh from her disappointing runnerup finish to Waldgeist Oct. 6 in her bid for a third consecutive Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victory, owner Prince Khalid Abdullah announced Tuesday that...

Seven other horses had tried and failed, most recently Treve in 2015. But as the group of 12 elite Thoroughbreds turned for home at Longchamp Sunday, it appeared five-year-old British...

The highly anticipated Oct. 6 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (FR-1) rematch between King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner and two-time Arc Champion Enable and her runner-up competitor...