2025 Eclipse Awards Winners
2025 Eclipse Awards: Forever Young, Sovereignty, Thorpedo Anna, and more.
DRF StaffJan 22, 2026
2025 Eclipse Awards: Forever Young, Sovereignty, Thorpedo Anna, and more.
Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico will move the entirety of its 2026 spring-summer meeting to the Downs at Albuquerque, the track announced in a one-page statement on Monday.
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Ted Noffey, who on Thursday is expected to be announced as 2-year-old champion male for 2025, was 6-1, the shortest-priced individual horse of 39 betting horses offered after wagering in pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed.
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All-sources handle at all California tracks declined 5 percent in 2025 despite the absence of Thoroughbred racing in Northern California and the loss of a vital weekend at Santa Anita in December because of rain, according to figures released at Wednesday’s California Horse Racing Board meeting.
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Johnny Velazquez, who has served more than 20 years as chairman of the Jockeys’ Guild, will step down from that position, the Guild announced in a press release Thursday.
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Bob Duncan, credited with revolutionizing the starting-gate experience for horses while working on and eventually heading the New York Racing Association gate crew for five decades, will be honored with a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence, it was announced Wednesday.
Two Mid-Atlantic veterinarians have been provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority for possessing and attempting to distribute products that contain banned substances.
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The California Horse Racing Board on Wednesday will hear a proposal for 18 weekends of racing at three venues in Northern California in the spring and summer, the fourth time in the last year an official attempt has been made to revive racing in that part of the state.
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All-sources handle at New York Racing Association tracks – Aqueduct and Saratoga – in 2025 was $2,070,660,489, down 0.9 percent compared to the $2,088,905,480 in 2024.
Jockey Gregg McCarron, who won 2,403 races in a 24-year career and is the brother of Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron, died Thursday at his home in Airy, Md., after suffering a heart attack. He was 77 years old.