After being forced into playing “second fiddle” in terms of Sire Stake purse structures, the Standardbred Breeders and Owners association of New Jersey has instituted a rewards program that virtually eliminates service fees for Garden State pacing stallions to owners of resident mares throughout the state.
Monday morning headlines about a milestone victory by Joe Steiner and a frightening training spill involving Dennis Carr served as fitting background to the announcement that Chris Antley was among four new individuals entering the Thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame.
There was a time when it seemed almost sacrilegious to forgo working at Churchill Downs prior to running in the Kentucky Derby.
Santa Anita’s marathon racing seasons are divided into sections – the traditional winter-spring meeting from late December to mid-April, and a 39-day spring-summer meeting that begins on Friday and runs through June 28.
Jose Corrales won his biggest race as a trainer last week when Bodhisattva pulled away in the stretch of the $100,000 Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico. The Tesio is the final stakes for 3-year-olds in Maryland prior to the Preakness, but Corrales, who also owns Bodhisattva, is a realist, and he will only run there if he thinks the horse belongs.
Live coverage, including video, of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training.
Sr. Quisqueyano can kick start a memorable week of racing for owner Ron Paolucci in Friday night’s Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park.
After several slow days on the Kentucky Derby workout front, things began to pick up a bit Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs, where both War Story and Mr. Z turned in five-furlong works and American Pharoah got to really stretch his legs for the first time since arriving here last week.
Through an initiative begun by the Backstretch Employees Service Team and with contributions from owners, trainers, and other parties, backstretch workers with diabetes at the New York Racing Association tracks will be getting new work shoes free of charge.
Joe King, the track superintendent at the New York Racing Association for 25 years and the man who helped develop Aqueduct’s inner track, died Tuesday.
