Horse Racing

Ramon Vazquez took the jockeys' title at the Grand Prairie, Texas track, and Steve Asmussen clinched the trainers' title on the final day of the 41-day meet Sunday

Improbable colt, trained by George Weaver for Boston Red Sox player Alex Bregman, employed a stalking trip to land his first graded win and first victory as a 3-year-old in the turf sprint at Saratoga

The multi-race wager begins anew when the Royal Palm Meet resumes Friday, spanning Races 4-9

Trainer thinks the champion Nyquist filly will move forward following her second in the last month's Monomoy Girl at Churchill Downs, the lone loss of her career and first start off a long layoff

Last-out winner of the 6 1/2-furlong True North and a Grade 1 winner going seven-eighths, the Bucchero gelding cuts back to six furlongs in Saturday's test for older runners at Saratoga

Top five finishers, including winner Pipsy, are set to meet in the 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint Saturday at Saratoga

Silent Name filly made all the pace and cruised to victory by more than seven lengths under Rafael Hernandez, who swept all three weekend stakes at Woodbine

Horses previously domiciled in that barn are permitted to return to the upstate New York track and train with the general horse population beginning Monday

Trainer could elect to keep last year's Black-Eyed Susan winner at Saratoga, where she has been training well ahead of the Friday's Grade 2 Shuvee or ship to Monmouth Park for the Grade 3 race

A Grade 2 winner last October to cap his juvenile campaign, homebred colt won his return in the listed race June 28 at Churchill Downs and is pointed for a big step up Aug. 2 at the Spa

Medaglia d’Oro filly looks to get back to winning ways in the Aug. 16 test at Saratoga following her first career defeat in June 6 Acorn at the Spa

Son of English Channel will bid for a repeat victory in the Aug. 9 race at Saratoga that offers 'Win and You’re In' berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) in November at Del Mar

Irish-bred mare was bumped in the stretch and outbattled favorite She Feels Pretty for a narrow win in the 1 1/8-mile turf test at Saratoga

Trainer, son of the late horseman Norman Casse, won with his first starter on April 14, 1979, at Keeneland and is one of only four horsemen enshrined in both the U.S. and Canadian Halls of Fame

The strategic event at La Concorde in Paris is free to the public and intended promote France's Thoroughbred racing industry

A week after a deer crossed the track at The Meadows harness track in Pennsylvania, a similar incident occurred on Delaware Park's turf course on Saturday.

Grade 1-winning Curlin mare will try to rebound from her third in the Ogden Phipps on June 6 at Saratoga and provide her trainer a fourth victory in the race

Trainer's Irish-bred mare landed her first Grade 1 win in a thriller at Saratoga following three straight runner-up finishes in the category

Virginia-bred Winfinity showed her affinity for the track's dirt surface in the Miss Disco for her second stakes win at the New Kent, Va. track, and Maryland-bred Slam Notion earned his first stakes win in the Star de Naskra

Sunday’s multi-race wagers begins in Race 5, a claiming event for 3-year-olds and up going one mile and 70 yards on the all-weather Tapeta course

Kentucky-bred Beau Liam filly went from debut winner to stakes winner in Saturday's test for 2-year-old fillies and capped a stakes double for jockey Rafael Hernandez

English Channel bay stretched back out in distance following his neck third in the nine-furlong Manhattan in June and added another graded win to his impressive record

Trainer Graham Motion's Karakontie filly rebounded from a runner-up finish in her first stakes start on turf to breakthrough on the surface for her first stakes win Saturday at Monmouth Park

The dark bay colt has a reserve price of $680,000 and will go to auction on Tuesday.

Caravaggio colt outlegged a pair of stablemates, all making their stakes debuts, in the 5 1/2-furlong race for 2-year-olds as their trainer swept the top three spots

Curlin colt was among a trio to drill Friday and Saturday at the Arcadia, Calif. track ahead of upcoming starts at Monmouth and Saratoga

Uncle Mo filly impressed her connections with a 14-1 upset in the 5 1/2-furlong Coronation Cup Friday on the Saratoga turf and may have found her niche on the surface at a shorter distance

Dual classic winner had a 'nice, smooth work' Saturday morning in preparation for a possible start in the Jim Dandy, and Grade 1-wnning stablemate Arthur's Ride stretched his legs while a first race of the year is still to be determined

No Half Measures causes a shock at Newmarket as the 66-1 outsider wins the July Cup under jockey Neil Callan.

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Shortening up to a sprint distance was ideal for the daughter of Uncle Mo

The son of Lady Eli was named for late veterinarian Dr. Robert Agne, who was part of the team credited with saving the champion racemare's life during her bout with laminitis

Galvin allegedly failed to enter over 3,000 treatment records in the HISA portal; investigators found evidence that some horses under his care received intra-articular injections on the morning of their races

Retired racehorses will be showcased on a card highlighted by the Rick Violette Stakes

Winner of the G1 Odgen Phipps last out, the G3 Molly Pitcher will serve as a prep for the G1 Personal Ensign

The recently gelded son of Kantharos broke his maiden last out

Son of Tapit will have his final work for Grade 2 Jim Dandy on July 16

The Irish-bred 4-year-old earned her fourth stakes victory in the second division of the De La Rose

Daughter of American Pharoah also won the Virginia Oaks in 2024

Two-time graded stakes winner Mo Plex worked a half-mile in 49.25

It might be difficult for others to close if Be Your Best gets a lonely lead

Held at Principessa Elena Society on July 21, the event raises funds for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation

The stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds will be contested at 1 1/16 miles, older New York-bred sprinters run in Leon Reed Memorial

Bred in partnership with Steven Friedfertig, filly has won two of three starts

The 4-year-old sprinter is the fifth horse to sweep the Hong Kong Speed Series

Over 300 New York-bred yearlings cataloged for Fasig-Tipton's two-day auction

Patches O'Houlihan, the 2024 Canadian Horse of the Year, suffered a soft tissue injury while winning the G2 Highlander Stakes.

Verifire is unbeaten in three starts, most recently taking the Maxfield Stakes at Churchill Downs

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy will be subject to enhanced testing both on and off the racecourse as part of "extremely strict" conditions on his riding licence following a drink-driving conviction.

Patches O’Houlihan, Canada’s reigning horse of the year, was euthanized Thursday. Patches O’Houlihan, ridden by Sofia Vives, held off My Boy Prince to win the Grade 2 Highlander by a neck at Woodbine Racetrack on Saturday. Patches O’Houlihan was pulled up after the race and left the track in a van for further examination.