The plan for I’ll Have Another, who arrived at Belmont Park on Sunday afternoon after winning the Preakness the day before, is to get him acclimated to the racetrack.
I’ll Have Another and Bodemeister are the Preakness favorites, but neither appears to be head and shoulders above Went the Day Well and Creative Cause, two other Derby horses who endured tough races.
Mike Smith and Drosselmeyer rallied in the homestretch to overtake Chantal Sutherland and Game On Dude, winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.
Three years ago, Dr. Gerald Bortolazzo was told he had terminal cancer. He sold his company, but then received a new diagnosis. With a new lease on life, he bought his first racehorse late last year.
For the next six weeks, Saratoga Race Course will become a summer Horse Haven, where many horsemen and horseplayers from around the country will look for the emergence of genuine equine stars.
Harness racing’s biggest star, See You at Peelers, won a division of the $145,208 New York Sires Stakes on Saturday and set a track record at Vernon Downs for 3-year-old fillies.
Rajiv Maragh was suspended for seven days for careless riding that compromised the Derby winner Animal Kingdom’s chance to win the third leg of the Triple Crown.
The Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom is the 2-1 morning-line favorite to become the 12th horse to win both the Derby and the Belmont Stakes on Saturday in the 143rd renewal of the Triple Crown's oldest and longest leg.
After After Shackleford worked five furlongs on Saturday morning, his trainer committed him to a rubber match against the Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom at the Belmont Stakes.
Horseplayers and horse lovers can take heart that the camps of Shackleford and Animal Kingdom have indicated they would like a rubber match at the 143rd running of the Belmont Stakes.
In an attempt to bring crowds of young people back to the Preakness, the Maryland Jockey Club has named Kegasus — a half a beer-bellied man, half a horse — Lord of the Infieldfest.
For the first time in a decade, not a single winner of the six major Kentucky Derby prep races earned a Beyer Speed Figure of at least 100, considered the standard for a high-quality stakes champion.
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation was completing its review, saying that Dr. Stacey Huntington’s evaluation of the horses previously under its care was incomplete.
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s primary benefactor said if the group wants to continue evaluating its herd of more than 1,000 horses, it must do so with its own money.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board has ordered Rick Dutrow to show it why his license should not be revoked and why he should not be banned from the state’s racetracks.
Mike Repole is the latest in what has become a sort of New York tradition — the person who hits it big in business, then turns his attention to sports.
In the weeks ahead, Zenyatta’s qualifications for the Horse of the Year honor will be pontificated upon with the fractured logic that has helped erode horse racing.
An altercation between jockeys Calvin Borel and Javier Castellano after the opening race took center stage at Churchill Downs, while filly Life at Ten may have suffered an allergic reaction.
The undefeated Zenyatta carries the weight of the racing world on her powerful shoulders after Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, was retired.
Blame may eventually have to face Zenyatta, who ran her record to 18-0 by winning her third consecutive Clement L. Hirsch Stakes, by a neck Saturday in Del Mar, Calif.
After Rachel Alexandra finished second in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes on Saturday, her camp said she would not run against the unbeaten Zenyatta next month at Oaklawn.
Rachel Alexandra, the reigning Horse of the Year, lost the New Orleans Ladies Stakes to Zardana, the stablemate of Zenyatta, who ran her record to 15-0 just a half hour later.
Rachel Alexandra, the reigning Horse of the Year, lost the New Orleans Ladies Stakes to Zardana, the stablemate of Zenyatta, who ran her record to 15-0 just a half hour later.
Amy Kearns spends 15 hours a day with Rachel Alexandra as her security guard, and her previous job, for 18 months, was as a bodyguard for Curlin, the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year.
Amy Kearns spends 15 hours a day with Rachel Alexandra as her security guard, and her previous job, for 18 months, was as a bodyguard for Curlin, the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year.
The trainer of Rachel Alexandra said his filly would not be ready to face her rival, the undefeated mare Zenyatta, in the Apple Blossom Handicap on April 3.
Pretournament talk suggested Roger Federer would be distracted and vulnerable at the Australian Open. Instead he has breezed into the final against Andy Murray.
Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra reminded the casual horse enthusiast why the game is magical and gave committed horseplayers an excuse for their obsession.