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He said it and nailed it on the nose. “Eight hundred thousand isn’t what it used to be,” insisted Dustin Dix, Sunland Park director of racing operations and the man who put together the $800,000 Sunland Derby, to be run Sunday at Sunland Park.

The Triple Crown season starts for real this weekend. How do I know? Follow the money. On Saturday, at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky, the Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes offers a purse of $500,000. On Sunday, just down the road from El Paso and across ...

This is the way it used to work: William Collins Whitney, the 19th-century political heavyweight and New York cable car magnate, did not get interested in Thoroughbred racing until his late 50’s. When he did, it was with a vengeance, and in the few ...

At a time when the horse racing business has suffered serious a decline, one segment of the sport is enjoying a bonanza. These are great times for horsemen in states where purses are subsidized by revenue from slot machines. But what the state gives, ...

When Ghostzapper was passed over for election to racing’s Hall of Fame last year, there was a reasonable explanation for why the brilliant 2004 Horse of the Year was denied enshrinement in his first year of eligibility.

A sideways glance at the stakes action out West on Saturday might lead an inveterate hunch player to shoot for an all-Irish parlay, seeing as St. Patrick’s Day is upon us.

Here’s Robert Wheeler again, one of 10 names on the Hall of Fame ballot for 2012, 20 years after his death, sticking out like a vintage 12-cylinder Jaguar in a field Maybachs, Beemers, and high-end hybrids.

The colt who would have been favored in the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita was resting comfortably in his stall Thursday morning after undergoing a surgical procedure the day before to repair a fracture of his left fore cannon bone.

Churchill Downs Racetrack announced a multi-year partnership, naming the world’s best-selling Belgian beer Stella Artois as “The Official Beer Sponsor of Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Oaks, and the Kentucky Derby.

Led by Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Regally Ready, and a stakes winner formerly trainer by Nick Zito, Fly Down, there are strong American influences on Saturday’s program of seven stakes at Meydan racecourse in Dubai.

The way Union Rags looked in the Fountain of Youth, Pennsylvania may have a connection to another Kentucky Derby winner.

Skylaunch, a 10-year-old gelding who will be scratched from a start as a $3,000 claimer Sunday at Turf Paradise, will soon have a new home and new career as a jumper.

On Saturday, the reigning 3-year-old champion Royal Delta will make her first start as a 4-year-old in the Sabin Stakes at Gulfstream Park, at 1 1/16 miles on the main track. The stakes are higher for the reigning male sprint champ Amazombie, who makes ...

With a key presidential primary just around the corner, the media’s current obsession with all things Michigan is monopolizing the conversation as candidates burrow deep into both the upper and lower peninsulas.