Bettys Bambino overcomes pre race trouble to win Daytona - December 29, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. – Adrenaline helped jockey Martin Garcia guide Bettys Bambino to victory in Sunday’s $101,000 Dayto...
All goes according to plan for Lady Pimpernel in Robert Frankel - December 28, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. - There were no mistakes from Lady Pimpernel or jockey Victor Espinoza in Saturday’s $101,000 Robert Frankel ...
Saratoga slates six Grade 1s on Travers Day - December 27, 2014
In keeping with its theory that big race days mean big business, the New York Racing Association has beefed up Travers Day at Saratoga ...
Secret Circle looms large in Midnight Lute Stakes - December 26, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. – If only he had a fashionable pedigree, Secret Circle might be retired to stud by now. But demand for modest...
Baltas, Pedroza engage in physical fight at Los Alamitos - December 23, 2014
Simmering acrimony between a prominent trainer and top jockey erupted into fisticuffs on Sunday at Los Alamitos, where trainer Richard ...
Harlans Destiny scores in Casey Memorial for fourth straight victory - December 22, 2014
Harlan’s Destiny won her fourth straight race and completed a sweep of the three stakes at Charles Town for 2-year-old West V...
Road to the Derby analysis: Los Alamitos Futurity - December 22, 2014
Road to the Derby analysis for the Grade 1, $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity, 1 1/16 miles, Los Alamitos, Dec. 20, 2014 (10 Derby qualify...
Strathnaver retired - December 20, 2014
Strathnaver, the winner of two stakes including the Grade 3 Bewitch Stakes at Keeneland in 2013, has been retired and will be bred in 2...
Trainer Cannizzo suspended 45 days - December 15, 2014
Trainer David Cannizzo will begin 2015 by serving a 45-day suspension after three of his horses tested positive for the illegal substan...
Two horses die following eighth-race spill at Aqueduct - December 7, 2014
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Two horses died and a jockey sustained a season-ending injury Friday at Aqueduct as a result of a terrible...
Full fields set for opening-day Claiming Crown stakes - December 5, 2014
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Claiming horses may be the focus of attention on opening day, but the popular Claiming Crown is only...
Trainer De La Torre suspended for 38 months - December 3, 2014
Quarter Horse trainer Jose De La Torre, who trained the Quarter Horses of the Year in 2012 and 2013, was suspended 38 months and fined ...
Hear the Chatter wins West Virginia Futurity - November 30, 2014
For the fifth time in six career starts, Hear the Chatter made short work of his competition Saturday night in the $68,675 West Virgini...
Sunbean stalks to 11th stakes victory in Delta Mile - November 23, 2014
Sunbean notched the 11th stakes win of his career Saturday, when he powered to a five-length win in the $250,000 Delta Downs Mile. Agen...
Kenny Noe Jr. pushed back to Sunday - November 13, 2014
MIAMI – The $90,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Stakes, which failed to fill Saturday, will be carried over to Sunday’s card at G...
Some Breeders' Cup thoughts - November 7, 2014
Lost in all the hubbub of the Breeders' Cup Classic controversy was the game performance of an underappreciated warrior.If you could ge...
Marr scores big on New Mexico Cup card - October 28, 2014
The $2 million New Mexico Cup card at Zia Park is an annual objective for the stable of trainer Joel Marr, and he celebrated a memorabl...
Beholder will miss Breeders' Cup Distaff - October 20, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder is out of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.The two-time champion filly spiked a temperature on ...
Llanarmon mows them down in Carotene Stakes - October 17, 2014
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Llanarmon overcame a slow start to the win the $150,000 Carotene Stakes going away under Emma-Jayne Wils...
Lawn Ranger scores at 12-1 in Bourbon Stakes - October 7, 2014
The Bourbon is the seventh of eight Win and You’re In events toward the Breeders’ Cup at the Keeneland fall meet an...
Daredevil gives Pletcher another Champagne - October 6, 2014
ELMONT, N.Y. -- A minor injury prevented Daredevil from making it to the races in the spring. He has certainly made up for lost time.Sa...
An Arc victory bestows immortality - October 5, 2014
Ten years ago, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was won by Bago, a son of Nashwan who carried the colors of the Niarchos family ...
Keeneland meet opens with rich stakes, new dirt surface - October 2, 2014
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A new country song called “Dirt” espouses the many uses of God’s good earth bu...
Espinoza suspended seven days for Awesome Again ride - September 30, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Victor Espinoza was suspended seven days by Santa Anita stewards Sunday for causing interference abo...
Santa Anita meet opens with flurry of stakes over first two weekends - September 27, 2014
ARCADIA, Calif. – It starts with a flourish, with 14 stakes over two weekends, and ends in early November as the focus of the...
Van Dyke to ride Wednesday - September 24, 2014
Drayden Van Dyke, the top apprentice on the Southern California circuit and a leading candidate for an Eclipse Award, will be among the...
Competitive Edge to miss rest of 2014 - September 18, 2014
Competitive Edge, the leading 2-year-old male on the East Coast, if not the country, sustained a hairline fracture to his left foreleg ...
Increased purses lure big-name jockeys to Kentucky Downs for Wednesday card - September 11, 2014
One look at the names of the jockeys who will be in action on a 10-race Wednesday card at Kentucky Downs suggests that something&rs...
Skyway looks to cap big meet in Del Mar Futurity - September 3, 2014
DEL MAR, Calif. – Usually, it’s the Rose Parade that convinces Easterners to relocate to California. It took traine...
Pender plans to appeal suspension, $5,000 fine - September 2, 2014
DEL MAR, Calif.- Trainer Mike Pender has been suspended three weeks and fined $5,000 for five class 4 medication infractions in a 12-mo...
Stryker Phd rallies from 15 lengths back to win Longacres Mile - August 26, 2014
AUBURN, Wash. – Stryker Phd roared from some 15 lengths off the pace to win Sunday's Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile at Emer...
Atreides will make first stakes start in Monarchos - August 14, 2014
Atreides will make his next start Aug. 30 in the Monarchos Stakes at Gulfstream Park after the highly regarded Stonestreet Stables colt...
Gulfstream winter meet offers $11.25 million in stakes purses - August 9, 2014
Gulfstream Park will offer a record $11.25 million in stakes purses during the 2014-15 championship meet, which opens Dec. 6. The $1 mi...
Desormeaux fined for failed Breathalyzer test - August 4, 2014
DEL MAR, Calif.- Kent Desormeaux, the leading rider at Del Mar, was fined $1,000 by track stewards on Sunday for failing a Breathalyzer...
Candy Boy, Tapiture meet in West Virginia Derby - July 30, 2014
The Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby, the headliner on a nine-stakes card Saturday at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort nea...
Medal Count is still an enigma - July 25, 2014
Even though we have seen a lot of Medal Count this year, there is a lot we still don’t know about him. His best distance? His...
Well-traveled Summer Front ships again for Eddie Read Stakes - July 21, 2014
DEL MAR, Calif. – For a New York-based horse, Summer Front is spending a lot of time in California this year.He was a game se...
Ben's Cat hits $2 million mark with third straight win in Dash - July 16, 2014
The remarkable Ben's Cat finished furiously outside horses to get up in the final strides and win a three-horse blanket finish in the G...
Belle Gallantey upsets Princess of Sylmar in Delaware Handicap - July 14, 2014
STANTON, Del. - Princess of Sylmar had to settle for second as the 1-5 favorite in Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Delaware Handicap as Be...
Hometown favorite Princess of Sylmar stars in Delaware Handicap - July 13, 2014
Delaware Handicap Day will be especially festive this year.Always the high point of the Delaware Park meet, the race has held its purse...
