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The Hollywood Gold Cup gives the game a chance to appreciate one of those old-timey racehorses who transcends all the woes swirling around him. Game On Dude is his name, and he has become one of those utterly honest professionals whose entertaining ...

The New York Racing Association will limit the number of starters in 2-year-old maiden sprint races to eight at the upcoming Saratoga meet.

Del Mar has raised purses in most categories for its upcoming meeting, with an added emphasis on higher prize money for maiden special weight and allowance races.

It is a delight to report that John McEvoy’s fifth work of racetrack mystery fiction has hit the shelves just in time to be added to the summer reading pile.

Doug O’Neill has been the face of horse racing for the better part of two months. But on this day, he was just a regular horseplayer all excited about cashing a Kentucky Derby future-book ticket.

Luckily for Luke Nolen, Australia is a big country. There are plenty of places to hide, beginning with the Australian Outback, which is about two and a half million square miles of not a whole lot.

Eddie Delahoussaye was expecting the call. There was justifiable concern for his health. After all, a jockey usually does not get a stakes race or a memorial award named in his honor unless he has suffered some terrible trauma, like dying, preferably ...

With the Triple Crown races behind us and getting ready for the dog days of summer (when the sports books here are), it’s time to clean out this reporter’s notebook:

As long as the Maryland racing commissioners are erasing the mistakes of 1973, I would like to suggest they might want to revisit a couple of other decisions that could have sent racing history in very different directions.

Apparently the deck chairs on the Titanic needed rearrangning – again. Word arrived this week that there would be a new system in 2013 to qualify for a place in one of the starting gates for the Kentucky Derby.

the hard-working players who put on the show last weekend in New York will be back on stage this weekend in Louisville and Los Angeles in a cluster of events every bit as significant in their own way as the Belmont Stakes.

On the morning after the Belmont Stakes, in a state of renewed bewilderment, a pilgrim hastened to the Belmont barn of Allen Jerkens to ask the burning question. Jerkens, being to Thoroughbred racing what Delphi is to oracles, figured to be the right ...

When I’ll Have Another made his last surge in the stretch of the Preakness and caught Bodemeister, this wasn’t simply a case of a stretch-runner overhauling a tired leader. I’ll Have Another’s performance - though the winning margin was only a neck - ...

The Preakness poses a whole new challenge in a shorter race, a smaller field, and a two-week turnaround. Chris McCarron, who still considers Pimlico ground zero of his illustrious career, had just about every possible experience in 13 Preakness rides, ...