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The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Ontario Division will honor the outstanding Ontario-bred winners of 2012 at its 31st annual awards dinner Friday, June 14 at Copper Creek Golf Club in Kleinberg, Ontario.

Lucayan, who won the Group 1 French 2000 Guineas in Paris last May, makes his United States debut in the Grade 2 American Handicap for trainer Neil Drysdale.

Best Present Ever’s summer campaign will be dictated by the results of a turf sprint at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.

Trainer Ron Gaffney has already transformed Rule Number Six from a useful allowance and starter allowance horse as a 3-year-old in 2012 into a stakes winner this season. Gaffne is hoping that metamorphosis will continue Saturday when Rule Number Six ...

The three-week drought between six-figure races at Churchill Downs will end Saturday when the Grade 3, $100,000 Louisville Handicap kicks off the holiday weekend.

Trainer Jack Van Berg spent Preakness Day at Louisiana Downs, which was fitting as Van Berg’s two Preakness winners, Gate Dancer in 1984 and Alysheba in 1987, each also won this track’s premier event, the Super Derby.

Oxbow’s Preakness resulted in the slowest winning time since 1961. Seemed on the surface like a very weak race. So how did Oxbow earn a Beyer Speed Figure of 106, better than Orb’s highly-praised Kentucky Derby (104 Beyer Figure) and the third highest ...

The good news is Declan’s Warrior ($3) won Wednesday’s $85,000 Gygistar Stakes at Belmont Park. The bad news is he had to run harder – and faster – than his connections had hoped, especially with the plan being to run back in 17 days.

Popular shuttle sire More Than Ready is among the short list of stallions still being considered for Black Caviar's first mating in the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

Canadian Triple Crown nominees Honorable Guest and County Lineman will both negotiate a mile and a sixteenth for the first time Friday at Woodbine against older Ontario-sired opposition in the $56,000 allowance feature.

WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., is conducting a memorabilia auction on eBay.com, with 100 percent of proceeds going to several charities.

Tango Tango looks like a major player in his first start at Northlands Park, which comes in an $8,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up that will serve as the feature race Friday.

St. Elias Stable’s Third Knight rallied stoutly from a pace-stalking position under Junior Alvarado to prevail in a blanket finish Sunday at Belmont Park, scoring his first win in his third career start.

Trainer Tony Dutrow confirmed that Giant Finish would run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes on June 8 and said he is definitely on board with this move.

Coffee Clique was back on Polytrack last Sunday at Woodbine and ran her local record to 2 for 2 with a four-length victory in the Grade 3, $156,300 Selene Stakes

With the highlight of this meet, the Iowa Festival of Racing, just more than a month away, Prairie Meadows cranks up its stakes calendar Friday evening with a pair of six-furlong sprints, the $60,000 Prairie Rose and the $60,000 Prairie Express.

Few would argue that the older pacing division in 2013 is one of the best assembled in recent years. Among that group is Bolt The Duer, one of the favorites to capture the $200,000 Dan Patch Invitational on Saturday at Hoosier Park.

Romantica, a 4-year-old filly by Galileo out of Eclipse Award champion Banks Hill, makes her second start of 2013 in Friday’s Group 2 Prix Corrida for fillies and mares at Saint-Cloud, France.

Shared Property, a Grade 3 winner at 2, looks to regain his good form when he returns to a route as one of the main contenders in the 10th-race feature, a $57,000 third-level allowance at 1 1/16 miles, Friday at Churchill Downs.