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California sire Caros Love, a multiple stakes winner who set the U.S. record for the fastest two-turn dirt mile, was euthanized May 31 at Rancho San Roberto Farm in Bakersfield, Calif., due to complications from the infirmities of old age. He was 29 ...

At this time last year, trainer Danny Vella was just more than a week away from what would be his Queen’s Plate tour de force with Strait of Dover. This spring, Vella is hoping to get back to the Queen’s Plate with Sweet Little Man, who will be looking ...

Little Mike, an Eclipse Award turf division finalist last year, is gearing up for an ambitious second half of 2013 after recently returning to Churchill Downs following a brief rest.

Champion Zenyatta has been confirmed in foal to young Claiborne Farm sire War Front, for what would be her third foal. The 9-year-old Street Cry mare was scanned at 37 days in foal Friday.

Chris Landeros is a California native, but he considers the Southwest region home and on Sunday he will be back riding at Lone Star Park near Dallas for the first time this season.

Despite a rather weak card, families will turn out en masse to Churchill Downs on Sunday in the hopes that dad can cash a few tickets and make Father’s Day 2013 a memorable one.

The corollary effects of the equine herpesvirus at Woodbine were hammered home Friday when a total of 21 of the 96 horses entered for that day’s nine-race card were scratched.

Include Me Out and Teddy’s Promise race six furlongs Sunday in the $70,000 Desert Stormer, which brings together the deepest group of fillies and mares for one race in California this year.

Caroline Thomas, a daughter produced by the Grade 1-winning mare Bit of Whimsy, runs in the $90,000 Bit of Whimsy Stakes at Belmont Park on Sunday.

Saratoga-based Winning Cause, a Polytrack specialist, is the big name in Sunday’s $150,000 Victoria Park Stakes, a nine-furlong event for 3-year-olds at Woodbine.

Not even a recent incident of roughhousing on a backstretch walking machine can keep Pk Fire from a start in the Vessels Maturity trials for older Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos on Sunday evening.

The first major stakes for 3-year-olds following the Triple Crown is a good one: a rematch between Verrazano and Itsmyluckyday on Sunday in the Grade 3, $150,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.

A speed bias could change things, but I would rather choose Itsmyluckyday to win Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park based on his strong form on fast tracks, than hope that Verrazano rebounds strongly enough to beat him.

Devil in Disguise should relish his first chance to go around three turns this year when he runs in an allowance race that drew seven horses going 1 1/16 miles at Hastings on Sunday.

Katy Morrison decided last fall at the age of 25 that it was time to fulfill a challenge and dream that had been with her for years.

Balooga Bull Manitoba’s horse of the year for 2012, failed to hold off an onrushing Pleasant Closing when he made his seasonal debut in the 5 1/2- furlong allowance prep for the Free Press Stakes. On Sunday at Assiniboia Downs, Balooga Bull will be ...

Jockey Tim Thornton fractured a sinus cavity and injured a shoulder in a chain reaction accident in Thursday’s fourth race at Canterbury Park.

The Ontario government announced Friday that it would be extending its support of the province’s racing industry by allocating another $30 million to the Horse Improvement Program in 2014 and 2015.