TODAY May 23, 2013
Logotype, the dominant 2- and 3-year-old colt in Japan since last fall, will be favored to win Sunday’s $4,088,050 Japanese Derby over about 1 1/2 miles on turf at Tokyo Racecourse.
Spanish Jazz figures to be tough to handle when he runs in a first-level allowance race at Northlands Park Saturday. The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and has been slotted as the second of eight races carded.
Rockin Cherokee figures to feast on what will likely be a hotly contested pace in $15,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up at Hastings Saturday.
Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow returned Racing Hall of Famers D. Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens and historic Calumet Farm to the national stage with his 1 3/4-length score May 18.
Missy Rules and Ile St. Molly, who both stretched out from sprints to win divisions of the one-mile Our Mims Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on opening day at Delaware Park, will be nominated to the $75,000 Go for Wand Stakes on June 15.
Strut the Course, a smart winner of her 2013 debut at seven furlongs, will look to punch her ticket to the June 9 Woodbine Oaks with a strong performance here in Saturday’s $125,000 Lady Angela.
For the past couple of years, turf milers have been California’s deepest division, and Obviously has been the best of the best.But befoe he was teamed up with Joe Talamo, Obviously was a sprinter who had trouble relaxing.
The United States Trotting Association Strategic Wagering Program is joining forces with the Daily Racing Form to promote 41 of harness racing’s most important stakes races on 28 dates at 15 racetracks across the country in 2013.
Thursday is the 100th anniversary of the day racing returned to New York after an absence of two years and nine months.
Thursday is the 100th anniversary of the day racing returned to New York after an absence of two years and nine months.On Friday, May 30, 1913, an estimated crowd of 35,000 at Belmont Park hailed the return of the sport and a strange form of oral ...
Sara the Spy takes on rival Trot Fudge Sundae and seven other Illinois-breds in the $50,000 Violet Stakes at Balmoral Park on Sunday.
Sunday’s $250,000 Betsy Ross Pace, an invitational at Harrah’s Philadelphia, pits 2011 champion Anndrovette against 2012 winner Royal Cee Cee N and six others in the co-feature on the afternoon program. Anndrovette survived the grueling Blue Chip ...
Little Polka Dot has her work cut out for her as the 5-2 morning line favorite in Saturday night’s $50,000 Opelousas Stakes at Evangeline Downs.
Saturday’s featured $60,000 Wild Rose, a 1 1/16-mile event for fillies and mares at Prairie Meadows, brings together five runners all looking for a breakthrough versus stakes-level competition.
The big chestnut Irish Mission, last year’s Canadian champion 3-year-old filly and champion turf female, returns to Woodbine on Saturday in the $200,000 Nassau, the first turf stakes of the meet.
Dramatic $500,000 purse cuts for the Grade 1 Canadian International and Grade 1 E.P. Taylor, both among Woodbine’s showpiece events, have been announced with the release of the second part of Woodbine’s stakes schedule for the 2013 meeting.
Rosie Napravnik will seek to join Julie Krone as the only female jockeys to have won the Belmont Stakes. She will ride Code West in the Belmont on June 8, trainer Bob Baffert said Thursday.
Chantal Sutherland, who announced her retirement here last summer, was at Woodbine on Thursday morning and plans to return to riding at the Del Mar meeting, which begins July 18.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Maywood, Harrington, Northfield, Meadows, Philadelphia, Pocono Downs, Freehold, Meadowlands, Saratoga, Monticello, Tioga Downs and Yonkers.
Jockey Gerard Melancon has been suspended 14 days by the Evangeline Downs stewards for being the aggressor in an altercation with fellow rider Liandro Atempa in the track’s jockeys’ quarters two weeks ago.