YESTERDAY May 15, 2012
Hambletonian prospect Check Me Out was defeated at the Meadows by Maven in her first start of 2012.
After missing a scheduled start because of concern over soundness last month, Acclamation, the champion older male of 2011, may finally make his 2012 debut in the $250,000 Charles Whittingham Handicap on June 9.
Meadow Farm, the Virginia birthplace of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, will be auctioned May 22 following the foreclosure of the Virginia State Fair.
Citing a "continued failure to act in the best interest of racing" by the New York Racing Association, state racing regulators said Tuesday that they had instructed the state lottery to immediately suspend payments NYRA receives from a casino at ...
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Fans hungering for the return of Stay Thirsty to the races will get their fill on Thursday when last year’s Travers winner makes his 4-year-old debut in the $90,000 Vanlandingham Stakes at Belmont Park.
Bonfire, unraced since finishing third in the Group 1 Criterium International in France last year, will be favored to win his 3-year-old debut in Thursday’s Group 2 Dante Stakes at York, England.
Zazu was taken out of training at a dreadful time last fall, weeks before the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Churchill Downs.
The question didn’t have to be asked. Just listening to Michael Matz talk about the seventh-place finish by Union Rags in the Kentucky Derby it was easy to tell the trainer hasn’t gotten over the disappointment yet.
Five new names will join the New England horse racing Hall of Fame this summer: Star sprinter Concorde Bound, jockey Joe Hampshire, trainer Maurice “Junie” Bresnahan, owner Frank Bertollino, and executive Bob O’Malley.
On the Monday morning following the Kentucky Derby, still wiped out and hoarse from cheering home I’ll Have Another, Paul Reddam sat down to a series of meetings with fund managers in the financial district of New York.
Antonio Sano says he has a lot of 2-year-olds on the grounds at Calder and whether he can defend his title as leading trainer depends on hoq quickly those young horses come around during the summer.
Jockey Luis Quinonez, who won five races Saturday at Lone Star Park, including both $75,000 divisions of the Texas Stallion Stakes, is riding at Pimlico on Thursday and Friday, said his agent, Monty Penney.
Jockey Alex Beitia, who went down in the seventh race Saturday at Louisiana Downs, sustained two broken bones in his left arm and will be out about three months, said his agent, Rob Roberson.
Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, will begin jogging under tack next week in his Fair Hill training center barn as he attempts a second comeback to the races later this year. On Monday, Animal Kingdom underwent a bone scan that showed no ...
For a not-insignificant number of Preakness winners, the disappointment of their efforts two weeks beforehand in the Kentucky Derby sometimes has been difficult to rationalize.
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