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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.

With Godolphin rocked this spring by a string of positive steroid tests, a victory by the Jim Bolger-trained Dawn Approach in the Epsom Derby would put the stable back in the headlines for its racing accomplishments.

It can be extremely tough for an 18-year-old jockey and his 18-year-old agent to convince owners and trainers to hire them - something jockey C.J. McMahon and his agent, Robert “Rocco” O’Connor 3rd, are finding out at Churchill Downs.

Groupie Doll, the 2012 Eclipse Award winner for filly-mare sprinter, is still weeks away from her first breeze, said trainer Buff Bradley. The 5-year-old mare returned to training early this month at Churchill after almost three months’ rest on ...

Bourbon Courage will miss the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap on June 15 at Churchill because of minor injuries incurred in a rough running of the Alysheba Stakes, said trainer Kellyn Gorder.

A look at the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and how the results relate to harness racing.

There are three notable absences from Saturday's American Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park: Defending champion Wilkinson, the multiple stakes winner Jeranimo, and Indy Point, the winner of the 2012 Argentine Derby

Trainer Carl Jamieson, who was elected to the Hall of Fame in the driver/trainer category, will send Up The Credit to Hoosier Park for Saturday’s $200,000 Dan Patch Invitational for older pacers.

The 5-year-old mare Onepointhreekarats reaffirmed her affinity for the main track at Delaware Park on Wednesday when she scored a front-running two-length victory in the $51,625 Winter Melody Stakes for older fillies and mares.

A handful of racehorses were rescued from the rubble of the Celestial Acres Training Center in Moore, Okla., following Monday’s tornado and were sent to Remington Park in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. Also, Heritage Place, the nearby sales complex, has ...