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Hessonite’s next opportunity to prove herself at a distance of ground comes in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes, a 1 3/8-mile test over Belmont Park’s Widener turf course.

Kelly Breen hopes to saddle both Ruler On Ice and Pants On Fire as a potent one-two punch on Saturday in the $75,000 Majestic Light Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Memorial Day Weekend kicks off with a Saturday stakes schedule that focuses primarily on turf. The day’s two Grade 2 events – the $200,000 Sheepshead Bay at Belmont Park and the $150,000 American Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park – are scheduled to be ...

After a nearly 7 1/2-year break, it took only three races for jockey Lori Wydick to win the first race of her comeback at Beulah Park on Wednesday.

The Retired Racehorse Training Project (RRTP) has selected 26 participants for the RRTP Thoroughbred Makeover training challenge, which runs from now through October.

Two horses -- one on a class drop, and one on class raise -- will go postward as top contenders Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Louisville Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Darley has hired Gerry Duffy, previously WinStar Farm’s stallion seasons director, to be general manager of Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland.

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 ...