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Proposed legislation to significantly expand gaming in Illinois passed the Illinois House of Representatives with 69 votes late Wednesday afternoon.

John Jacinto, a past title winner at Louisiana Downs, is back at the Bossier City, La., track after spending some time at Prairie Meadows.

I’ve been involved in a handicapping contest called Pen vs. Chip, where two teams of three handicappers each compete.

Tom Amoss might make quite a few folks happy Friday evening at Churchill Downs - or he might disappoint them, too. The veteran trainer has five scheduled starters in the final six races of the twilight Friday card (first post, 2:45 p.m. Eastern), and ...

Calculating speed figures is often a straightforward process. But sometimes the results on a given card can be ambiguous or inscrutable, which was the case when Churchill Downs ran its opening-night program April 28.

While trainer Nick Zito won’t be participating in the Belmont Stakes, he will have a major player for Monday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park in Jackson Bend.

Both stakes races on Saturday’s program, the Grade 3, $150,000 Matron and the $125,000 Arlington Classic were drawn with appealing fields Wednedsay.

Bodemeister and Creative Cause, second and third behind I’ll Have Another in the Preakness Stakes, will pass the Belmont Stakes in New York on June 9 and will be on different career paths this summer.

The optimism that Shaun Hubbard, the new general manager of Ruidoso Downs, has for the New Mexico meet that opens Friday is backed up at the entry box. The track, which is home to the $2.4 million All American Futurity for Quarter Horses, will open its ...

Nates Mineshaft is headed to the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on Monday after breezing for the race Wednesday at Churchill Downs.

The methodology behind the creation of Beyer Speed Figures is much more science than any subjective determination. I'll Have Another's figures for the Kentucky Derby and Prerakness provide a classic study.

A two-day pick-five carryover of $21,055 is likely to attract a crowd of interested horseplayers when racing resumes Friday evening at Emerald Downs. The pick-five sequence – races 3 through 7 – begins shortly before 7 p.m. Pacific.

Trainer Nick Zito has sent out the last two winners of the Belmont Stakes that were run when a Triple Crown was on the line.

In its latest legal salvo against the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, the office of New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday filed new documents to support its allegations that the nation’s largest racehorse retirement charity ...

Alternation, currently the top-rated horse in the weekly NTRA Thoroughbred Poll, came out of his game win last Friday in the Pimlico Special in good condition and will make his next start in the Stephen Foster Handicap on June 16 at Churchill Downs as ...

Tahoe Lake and Simmard will be sticking with their specialty, the turf marathon, when returning to action Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Louisville Handicap, the first graded stakes at Churchill Downs since the May 5 Kentucky Derby.

This spring, trainer Doug O’Neill has had as many winners in the Triple Crown as he has in the first four weeks of the Betfair Hollywood Park meeting.

It is with a mixture of frustration, hope, and envy that Michael Matz prepares Union Rags to take on I’ll Have Another in the 144th Belmont Stakes on June 9 at Belmont Park.

Marquee value is lacking in Friday’s nominal feature at Belmont Park, but there’s no arguing the fact that all seven shooting for their second-level allowance condition in race 8 are closely matched on paper.