Two weeks after being named champion female sprinter for 2015 and three weeks after winning the Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct, La Verdad was officially retired from racing by owner Sheila Rosenblum and trainer Linda Rice.
Paul Matties of Ballston Spa, N.Y., topped a field of 629 entries to win the $800,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year at Treasure Island Las Vegas in the 17th Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship.
After not being allowed to ride since Jan. 15, jockey Nik Juarez resumed his career Friday at Laurel Park, finishing second in the fourth race on a horse trained by his father, Calixto Juarez.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced today that NHCQualify.com, the official online qualifying site of the National Handicapping Championship, will offer a new awards pool and a $1 million bonus tied to tournament play on NHCQualify.com in 2016.
Oaklawn Park announced Thursday it has banned horses from Arizona and New Mexico due to equine herpesvirus positives at Sunland Park and a suspected positive at Turf Paradise.
The Arizona Department of Agriculture on Thursday placed a 21-day quarantine on the backstretch at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, one day after a horse was euthanized with symptoms consistent with equine herpesvirus, the contagious disease that has shut down Sunland Park in neighboring New Mexico.
Led by Eclipse Award winner Nyquist, as well as a pair of prominent prospects – Greenpointcrusader and Mohaymen –who are scheduled to race on Saturday in the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park, a total of 368 3-year-olds are early nominees to this year's Triple Crown, Churchill Downs announced Thursday.
Mike Gonzalez, a veteran jockey agent, was arrested and charged with illegally accessing the New York Racing Association's computer system 170 times over a 15-month period, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Queens County (N.Y.) district attorney's office.
The betting hub malfunction that led a handful of racetracks to cancel their cards Tuesday was caused by a power outage at the hub in New Jersey, according to an official with the hub’s operator.
The Illinois Racing Board passed two contested agenda items during a marathon January meeting Tuesday, one concerning the assembling of race cards and the other regarding Arlington’s application for stall space at the 2016 meet.
