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Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas will have plenty to keep him busy Saturday at Pimlico even before he saddles three horses in the 138th Preakness Stakes.

There is a hint of nostalgia in the air at Louisiana Downs. The track’s 40th season has produced a homecoming of sorts for veteran jockey Bobby Walker Jr. and agent Wendy Smith, two major players locally in the 1980s.

Suggestive Boy, the top turf miler in Southern California over the winter, will resume training this week after being given a break for a splint bone injury, trainer Ron McAnally said.

Trainer Jack Frost sent out his first winner of the 2013 spring meet Sunday and will have three chances to add to that total on Friday's twilight card.

Liber Nauticus will have a perfect record when she starts in the English Oaks at Epsom Downs on May 31. On Wednesday, Liber Nauticus made her first start of 2013 and her stakes debut in the $112,870 Musidora Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at York ...

Nominations are now being accepted for the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing sale, to be held July 15 following the auction company’s July selected yearling sale at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

Emerald Downs will begin its Friday card 30 minutes early this week, at 6:15 p.m. Pacific, to accommodate an eight-race program that includes the first two Quarter Horse races of the meeting.

It will be like old times Friday when Gary Contessa sends out nine horses on the 10-race program at Belmont Park.

The talent Departing has shown in winning 4 of 5 career starts figures to make him the shortest price among the three newcomers joining the Triple Crown fray Saturday in the Grade 1, $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Rousing Sermon won for the third time in his career in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on April 14 and will be favored to win another optional claimer at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.

Patricia Cooksey is among eight retired female riders competing in Friday's Lady Legends for the Cure at Pimlico, a race designed to raise awareness of breast cancer.

The $50,000 Lady Slipper Stakes for Minnesota-bred fillies and mares is shaping up to be a rematch of last year’s Minnesota Distaff Sprint.

The Grade 3 Pimlico Special on Friday appears to be a tale of two horses. Last Gunfighter has been in the zone since last fall and seeks his sixth straight win. Richard’s Kid, meanwhile, is attempting to recapture some of his former glory as a multiple ...

With one eye on a big prize and the other on the future, trainer Bill Mott returns Emollient to dirt in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.

Friday evening’s opening of the Canterbury Park meet begins the first full year of a cooperative marketing agreement between the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and the track. The impact of the $75 million, 10-year agreement is being felt from the ...

Trainer Bob Tiller should be holding a strong hand in Friday’s Woodbine feature, when he runs Born to Be Queen and Tequilamockingbird in the six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.

As Michelle Beadle's presence on NBC's Triple Crown telecast showed, traditionalists in racing often react harshly to outsiders.

If football legend Hornung can get lucky Saturday, he might find himself being asked to autograph quite a few racing programs after the Preakness. Hornung is a co-owner of Titletown Five, the cleverly named colt who will be ridden by Julien Leparoux ...

Popular jockey Rosie Napravnik has agreed to join the board of directors for the Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement group. The organization is based in Georgetown, Ky., with a satellite near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.