Horse Racing

Freehold Raceway, the oldest horse racing track in the United States, is shutting down at the end of the year.

Coverage of the 2024 Breeders' Cup begins on Friday, Nov. 1 from 4 to 8 p.m. ET on USA Network and resumes on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. ET on USA Network before jumping to NBC and Peacock until 6 p.m. ET and finishes on USA until 8 p.m. ET.

A betting company owned by a secretive Australian businessman described as the “world’s biggest gambler” has launched an audacious attempt to replace the Tote Group at UK racecourses.

There is expected to be a flurry of Maryland thoroughbred horse racing activity over the next two-and-a-half years — the construction of a training track, the establishment of a new operator, the closure of a longtime venue, and an entirely renovated Pimlico Race Course — and leading the efforts will be Bill Knauf, a former executive with Monmouth Park Racetrack in New Jersey. The Maryland ...

Jockey Franny Norton will retire at Chester on Saturday aged 54 after a career that brought nearly 2,000 wins.

Kyprios retains the Irish St Leger crown with a strong performance at the Curragh on Sunday.

Aidan O'Brien has three of the seven runners for the St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday.

For many people, an Ole Miss home football game is not complete without a trip to the Square and a chance to see police officers patrolling the crowd on horseback. Since 2011, the Oxford Police Department’s mounted unit has ensured people remain safe in the downtown area, especially during fall weekends when Rebel football games bring throngs of people to the city. While the football team and ...

Legendary trainer Sir Michael Stoute has announced he will retire later this year.

Ridden by Flavien Prat, Gaming ran seven furlongs in 1:23.02 and paid $9.80 to win.

Date set for 2025 Sunland Derby and Sunland Oaks at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino, The two races are prep races for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks.

A ban on smoking in public areas would have a “negative impact” on racecourse attendances, which have already taken a 1.2 million hit since 2016.

The fields have been set for Saturday’s FanDuel TV U.S. Open Turf Championships: six graded stakes at Kentucky Downs worth up to $2 million each. Kentucky Downs is near Franklin, Ky. Among the entries taken Monday for Saturday’s card are horses seeking repeats of their 2023 Kentucky Downs victories: Get Smokin (G2 FanDuel TV Kentucky Turf Cup), Gear Jockey (G2 Ainsworth Turf Sprint, a race he ...

Irish trainer Shark Hanlon has had his licence suspended for 10 months and fined €2,000 after footage emerged of an uncovered dead horse being towed by one of his branded horseboxes.

Irish trainer Shark Hanlon is banned for 10 months and fined €2,000 after transporting a dead horse in public view in an open trailer.

Hollie Doyle became the second British female Flat jockey to ride 1,000 winners worldwide when Leyhaimur, her second winner on the afternoon, took her to the landmark number at Goodwood yesterday.

Lauren Keen-Hawkins, an amateur jockey who suffered a heavy fall in the last race at Worcester on Sunday, is in critical care in a Birmingham hospital with a serious head injury.

Amateur jockey Lauren Keen-Hawkins is in critical care with a serious head injury after falling at Worcester on Sunday.

A racehorse named Swift Delivery that three-time Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce bought into has finished second in its latest start. Sent off as the even-money favorite, Swift Delivery was beaten in the $125,000 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday. He paid $2.50 and $2.10 as his two-race winning streak ended.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce purchased a stake in a racehorse, as reported by America's Best Racing on Twitter. The name of the horse? "Swift Delivery." It seems only natural that Kelce would have wanted to buy an ownership share of the winning thoroughbred…

Aug. 28—When the fires and ensuing floods devastated Ruidoso this summer, New Mexico horsemen were left scrambling for ways to save the summer season for the venerable Ruidoso Downs Race Track in southern New Mexico. The ultimate solution was to move to the whole stable of horses and races north to the Downs of Albuquerque facility on the grounds of Expo New Mexico. "We had 1,740 horses on the ...

Travis Kelce has plenty of titles to his name. The tight end, the three-time Super Bowl champion, the partner of world-famous pop star Taylor Swift, and the brother of People's Sexiest Man Alive. But, nobody ever would have thought the local legend would adopt a new title: Travis Kelce, horse owner?

Travis Kelce isn't just investing in his relationship with Taylor Swift. He's also investing in a horse apparently named after his girlfriend. Per Blood Horse, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end "recently acquired a significant share of Team Valor's interest in the 3

Team Valor International founder and CEO Barry Irwin said the horse was not named after Swift — just “a total coincidence.”

Travis Kelce is now the part owner of Swift Delivery, a 3-year-old gelding.

Trainer Ed Dunlop has been handed a suspended 12-month disqualification after one of his horses tested positive for cocaine at Brighton last year.

Watch extended highlights from Races 1 and 2 of the 2024 VP Racing SportsCar Challenge at VIRginia International Raceway.

Fierceness held off Thorpedo Anna’s late charge to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes by a head on Saturday, denying the filly’s attempt to become the first female winner of the Grade 1 race in over a century. Ridden by John Velazquez, Fierceness ran 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga in 2:01.79. Last year's 2-year-old champion, Fierceness was the beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby in May.

Favourite Magical Zoe wins the Ebor Handicap - Europe's most valuable flat handicap race - and claims victory for trainer Henry de Bromhead at the York Ebor Festival.

Content wins the Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks to give trainer Aidan O'Brien an eighth victory in the race.

Black Caviar won 15 Group 1 races and nearly $5.3 million in prize money.

On a summer weekend afternoon, about a dozen bespectacled Baltimore men in their 60s and 70s leaf through large books with tiny print in a faintly air-conditioned room. In that text they search for patterns, lessons and answers to impossible questions. They pore over the pages like scholars. After a thorough analysis, they rise and are ordained by their fates. These men have gathered every ...

Rule number one for jockeys should be never, ever look at social media. Aside from being the insidious invention of the devil, it is a place inhabited by bigoted, uninformed nutcases who can make a disproportionate amount of noise.

Aug. 14—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Association (PHRA) will be at the biggest harness race in Pennsylvania at Mohegan Pennsylvania's Pocono Downs on Saturday, August 17. With more than $2 million in purses, Sun Stakes Saturday is also one of the richest days in harness racing. Events throughout the day will include Open and Filly races for three-year-old pacers and trotters as ...

Oisin Murphy, the three-time champion Flat jockey, has blamed missing a British Horseracing Authority breath test on a bout of “haemorrhoids”.

MENOMONIE — One of Patty Strand’s favorite breeds of horses is the standardbred, and they have been in her life since she was young. “I’ve always been involved in harness racing because my grandfather raced,” said Strand. “I’ve always loved the breed and my very first horse was a standardbred, which I still have, and she’s 35 years old now.” She began to breed the horses for harness racing, ...

Some competitors accused of also trying to cover up cruel ‘blue tongue’ condition with white foam

California bookmaker pleads guilty to running an illegal gambling business used by Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter.

Monmouth Park officials canceled thoroughbred horse racing for Friday with the area heat index reaching 101 late in the morning.

Horse welfare has been a major topic of conversation around the equestrian competition at the Olympics.