Fresh horses can be effective at this stage of the long Woodbine meet, and District Attorney fits the bill in Friday’s Woodbine headliner, a non-winners of three combo race for Ontario-sired allowance and $40,000 claimers.
Pure Country could be the best 2-year-old pacing filly in the sport. The daughter of Somebeachsomewhere-Western Montana will put her unbeaten streak on the line in Friday’s Bluegrass series at the Red Mile.
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) today announced wagering numbers were up for the 2015 Mohawk Standardbred meet, which concluded on Tuesday, September 29.
Champion Soaring Softly, winner of the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, died Tuesday following a paddock accident at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky. She was 20.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
Arlington and Hawthorne’s proposal to coordinate racing schedules and amicably divide revenue from hosting simulcasts on dark days in 2016 was unanimously approved by the Illinois Racing Board in the IRB’s annual racing dates awards meeting Tuesday in Chicago.
The Association of Racing Commissioners International has named 12 members to a committee that will work with individual racing states on adopting the organization’s uniform rules, the RCI announced on Tuesday.
Classic winner Empire Maker, the grandsire of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, will return to the United States to stand at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky.
The catalog for the horses of racing age portion of the 2015 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. fall mixed sale is now available online, adding 97 offerings to the auction.
Big fields were entered Tuesday for the opening-day features of the Keeneland fall meet, the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades and Grade 3 Phoenix, back-to-back stakes that anchor a 10-race Friday card.
