First the rain, then the race, then the rainbow and then rowdy celebration as Golden Tempo delivered another last-to-first run to remember in winning the $2 million Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday. The victory was historic in many ways: trainer Cherie DeVaux, who became th...
Five talented distaffers -- all already graded stakes winners -- seeking a secured spot in the $2 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) gate in just more than three months will square off in Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, the seaside oval’s second “Win and ...
Dominant success sows seeds of outsized expectations. Trainer Ron Burke probably realizes that more than anyone in harness racing heading into the $1 million Hambletonian Saturday at The Meadowlands Racetrack. It is the one prize that has frustratingly slipped through his hands. The Hambletonian is ...
Cody’s Wish is a dream-come-true horse for everyone around him, particularly for 17-year-old Cody Dorman. The teenager was born with the rare genetic disorder Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and is unable to walk or speak. On a visit with his family to Gainsborough Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, about fou...
The was no margin for error in four of the biggest races of the day, three of which were decided by a head, the other by a nose following a stewards’ inquiry. And for two of the winners, there were automatic berths and all fees paid into their respective races in the 40th Breeders’ Cup […...
Once again, Irad Ortiz, Jr. was involved in a race-riding kerfuffle, this time as he rode odds-on favorite Forte to a narrow victory over Saudi Crown in the $500,000 Jim Dandy (G2) on Saturday over a sloppy track at Saratoga. The win was the first for Forte in four months, a tumultuous time that saw...
California’s road to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) gets underway on Saturday with the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (GI) at Del Mar, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win & You’re In” event, which means that the best of the 12 standout sprinters who will race the six furlongs also win an all-...
A star-studded lineup featuring Epsom Derby (G1) winner Auguste Rodin and six other Group or Grade 1 stakes winners in a field of 11 is set for the $1.6 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday. The winner earns an automatic spot, with all fees paid, in ...
Saturday’s $300,000 San Diego Handicap (G2) at Del Mar is the traditional prep race for the track’s signature race, the $2 million Pacific Classic (G1), set to be contested on Saturday, September 2, and long before the Cal-bred fan favorite Best Pal won the inaugural Pacific Classic 33 years ago...
Hopefully, a frustrating spring will lead to a fruitful summer for a champion last seen in the winner’s circle nearly four months ago. That would be Forte, the 2-year-old Eclipse Award winner who tops a talented but compact field of five in Saturday’s $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at Saratoga. ...
Jason Servis, the disgraced trainer of star-crossed champion Maximum Security, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a yearslong scheme of abusing racehorses through the use of performance enhancing drugs. The maximum sentence based on the charges was delivered on Wednesday (Jul...
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