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The first weekend at Santa Anita has nine stakes races highlighted on Saturday by Preakness winner National Treasure in the Awesome Again Stakes.

Canton football player Gavin "Cowboy" Otto races his horse, Disco, in flag and plug races around the Midwest.

Nevada Litfin, a longtime trainer at Canterbury Park, has been suspended for five months and fined $3,500 for violating racehorse medication rules. The sanctions were announced by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU), a federal agency that oversees the sport's anti-doping and medication regulations. According to HIWU's website, Litfin admitted to violating six rules. They include ...

Lisa Lazarus has gotten countless calls and messages from trainers across horse racing since new medication and anti-doping rules went into effect this spring, many of which she found inspiring. “For the first time ever, they feel like they have a real chance that when they get up to the starting gate, that the playing field is really level and that they no longer have to kind of compete with other trainers’ pharmacies,” Lazarus said. Groups critical of the Horseracing Safety and Integrity Authority, of which Lazarus serves as CEO, backed competing legislation introduced Tuesday in Congress that would repeal the law and replace it with a system that gives oversight power back to states.

Trainer Linda Toscano and driver Scott Zeron accomplished the rare feat of capturing victories in the Little Brown Jug and Jugette.

Sugar Valley Farms is the preeminent place for Ohio stallions to produce future champions, as it is home to seven of the top Buckeye State sires.

Racing star Constitution Hill will stay over hurdles and to switch to fences, trainer Nicky Henderson says.

The Grade 1 $1 million Pennsylvania Derby will be run Saturday at Parx Racing. Here's everything you need to know about the big race.

All the ingredients were in place for a grand finale Saturday at Canterbury Park. The Shakopee track was set to end a 53-day season with 13 races, and Canterbury officials anticipated the large fields could push wagering above $2 million. Instead, they got another dose of disappointment. When the main track failed to dry out after rain Friday, unsafe track conditions forced Canterbury to ...

All the ingredients were in place for a grand finale Saturday at Canterbury Park. The Shakopee track was set to end a 53-day season with 13 races, and Canterbury officials anticipated the large fields could push wagering above $2 million. Instead, they got another dose of disappointment. When the main track failed to dry out after rain Friday, unsafe track conditions forced Canterbury to ...

Britney Eurton, Randy Moss and Jerry Bailey recap the 2023 Breeders Cup Challenge Series at Woodbine, including the winners and top performances in the Summer Stakes, Natalma Stakes and Woodbine Mile.

Canterbury Park's final day of the season ended after three races Saturday, with the rest of the card canceled because of unsafe track conditions caused by heavy rains Friday. The Shakopee track was scheduled to wind up a 53-day season with a 13-race card. After the first two races, which were run on the turf course, jockeys concluded the main track—still sloppy more than 24 hours after the ...

The owner of Golden Gate Fields agreed to keep the track open another six months after initially planning to close at the end of 2023.

My Carson's Run gains ground in the final furlong to win the Summer Stakes, part of the 2023 Breeders' Cup Challenge Series.

She Feels Pretty charges late in the final furlong to win the 2023 Natalma Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.

Racing dreamed of either a Frankie Dettori victory swansong or royal winner of the 247th running of the Betfred St Leger, one of the oldest annually run sporting events in the world, but Bambi and his full-brother were both taken out in one clean shot by Aidan O’Brien who won it for a seventh time with 3-1 shot Continuous on Saturday.

Continuous gives trainer Aidan O'Brien a seventh St Leger win as he finishes ahead of Frankie Dettori's mount Arrest and the King's horse Desert Hero.

Increased horse count and export handle have been encouraging signs for Presque Isle Downs in 2023. The track will host its biggest event of the year Monday.

Desert Hero has already done his bit to cement the King and Queen’s involvement in racing by winning at Royal Ascot and Glorious Goodwood in their first season with the Royal silks but the William Haggas-trained colt can top that and spoil Frankie Dettori’s leaving party by winning the 247th Betfred St Leger, the oldest Classic, at Doncaster on Saturday.

Desert Hero, owned by the King and Queen, will bid to provide the first Royal win in a Classic for nearly 50 years when he runs in the St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday.

Racing’s constant worry towards the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was how royal patronage and involvement, something that has set it apart from all other sports with few interruptions for 300 years, might look when one its highest profile and most ardent owner-breeder departed.

Irish trainer Luke Comer is banned from racing for three years after 12 of his horses tested positive for banned anabolic steroids.

Luke Comer, the billionaire Irish property developer, trainer and big-race sponsor, has been banned for three years and ordered to pay costs of 755,754 euros (£650,000) after a dozen of his horses tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2021.

The future of the horse racing industry may depend on if new safety measures at Churchill Downs help slow horse deaths during track's September Meet.

Three months after suspending racing following a series of horse deaths, Churchill Downs will open its September Meet on Thursday in Louisville.

The 197-page report, along with recommendations, followed an investigation into Churchill Downs' track surface and the deaths of several thoroughbreds.

Findings from Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority show no singular factor for 12 horse deaths at Churchill Downs. HISA is still searching for answers.

Eldar Eldarov comes in three-and-a-half-lengths in front of favourite Kyprios to win the Irish St Leger at the Curragh.

English and Irish Derby winner Auguste Rodin wins the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

Frankie Dettori says only "a stupid offer" would make him reconsider his decision to retire, which was in part prompted by seeing Cristiano Ronaldo on the Portugal bench at last year's World Cup.

After months of preparation after the passing of House Bill 551, sports betting becomes legal this week in Kentucky. Here's what you should know.

Cowboys Gun Z wins 2023 All American Futurity at odds of 15-1 for trainer Michael Joiner and jockey Agustin Silva.

Arabian Knight's win for trainer Bob Baffert in the Pacific Classic could be an indicator of who might win the richest horse race in the U.S.

The All American Derby and All American Oaks had close finishes on Sunday at Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino

Trainer Toby Keeton has a legitimate chance to win both the All American Derby and All American Futurity on Sunday and Monday at Ruidoso Downs

Arabian Knight won the $1 million Pacific Classic on Saturday. Geaux Rocket Ride finishes a strong second in California only $1 million race.

When Epsom-based Adam West sent out Live In The Dream to win the Nunthorpe Stakes at York nine days ago, it was regarded by racing as a timely breath of fresh air; new names in the horse, owner, trainer and jockey column experiencing victory at the highest level.

Ellesmere-based equestrian ace Arthur Duffort said he got more excited than his horse in the 2023 Defender Burghley Horse Trials dressage phase after storming to a personal best.

When Remington Park first opened 35 years ago, there was a buzz of excitement in Oklahoma City.

A look at the post positions, morning-line odds and other notes about horses in the big stakes races on Sunday and Monday at Ruidoso Downs Race Track

Felix Chavez makes his best effort to pick the winners of the key quarter horse races during All American weekend at Ruidoso Downs.

A herd of about 40 mares, stallions and foals graze lazily on dry grass over the rugged Stolovi mountain in Serbia's southwest, one out of three such bands of wild horses in the Balkan country. The horses, mainly from the sturdy Bosnian Mountain Horse breed used as pack animals and in agriculture, were brought to Mt. Stolovi in the 1970s by their owners who hoped to save on feed costs. Away from humans, the animals gradually became feral, reverting to behaviour more closely resembling that of wild horses, 73-year-old farmer Slavoljub Nikolic said on Thursday.

Del Mar continues to boast large field sizes as it readies for its big Saturday, highlighted by the Pacific Classic, the only $1-million race in the state.

El Paso's Adrian and Christian Ramos are brothers and elite jockeys. They'll compete in three races in Ruidoso, N.M. on Labor Day weekend.

Aug. 28—Officials with Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. are interesting in adding new gaming machines at Batavia Downs that would allow bettors to wager on horse races that already happened. The so-called historical horse track racing machines, while not yet legal in New York state, function like traditional slot machines with the outcome of each game based on a horse race that already ...

Quarter horse racing's biggest races are set for Sunday and Monday in Ruidoso with the morning-line odds and post positions

The Pennsylvania Derby now looms as the next Grade 1 stepping-stone to the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita. Here's a look at who could run.

Aug. 26—Officials with Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. are interesting in adding new gaming machines at Batavia Downs that would allow bettors to wager on horse races that already happened. The so-called historical horse track racing machines, while not yet legal in New York state, function like traditional slot machines with the outcomes of each game based on horse races that already ...

New York Thunder was far in front during the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes at Saratoga when he fell and subsequently was euthanized.