Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital announced that Dr. Fairfield Bain, a distinguished equine internal medicine specialist, will join their renowned team of veterinarians.
Besides a 40-day summer meet, NYRA will conduct one additional day of racing at Saratoga Race Course during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival and race at Saratoga for the first time from July 3-6 for a July 4th Racing Festival.
Prairie Meadows has announced the live horse racing dates for the 2025 season, which have been approved by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission. The racing season will run May 9 through Sept. 27.
Rockridge Stud in New York announced Dec. 3 its seven-stallion roster and fees for the 2025 breeding season, topped by Americanrevolution, who stands for $12,500, and Mind Control, whose fee is $8,000.
In this episode of StarWatch, we take a look at the stunning first crop of Life is Good. We hear from many breeders & buyers of his session-topping weanlings, who are excited about what the future holds for these impressive individuals.
Angel Cordero, Jerry Bailey, Steve Cauthen, Julie Krone, Edgar Prado, Pat Day, Laffit Pincay Jr., Ramon Dominguez, Jean Cruguet, and Chris McCarron are among those confirmed to attend the 10th annual Jockeys & Jeans event at Gulfstream Park.
Among Peace and Justice's last 100 starters, 47% finished in the money, with 18% winners and $8,250 average earnings per start. His top runners include Dontlookbackatall, winner of the Caress Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course.
The $500,000 Virginia Derby, a points race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, will transition to the dirt and be held on March 15, anchoring a new three-day spring meet that will also include the $250,000 Virginia Oaks, a Kentucky Oaks points race.
It is the third-highest price at the December Mares sale behind Marsha's record sale of 6,000,000gns and Alcohol Free's 5,400,000gns sale to Yulong Investments here two years ago.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is proud to announce a multiyear partnership with the Ed Brown Society to assist young people of color pursue careers in the Thoroughbred racing industry.
While the New York Racing Association has two grade 1 stakes for 2-year-olds, the Dec. 7 Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack has been a much more reliable indicator of Triple Crown success.
Two-time Eclipse Award winner Julien Leparoux earned his 3,000th career victory when he won Churchill Downs' third race aboard Pike Place on Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28.
It's been almost nine months since Tuz blasted his rivals into submission in the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) on Dubai World Cup night, but he's back and ready do it all again.
Boston, a Hall of Fame Virginia-bred Thoroughbred horse, was feted Dec. 1 at Historic Tuckahoe in Henrico County with a historical highway marker dedication recognizing his prominence in the racing world.
Ensuring racehorses with a proper and lifelong retirement once their racing careers were over was very important to breeder and Hall of Famer John Hettinger. Akindale Thoroughbred Aftercare continues this mission each day through at their sanctuary.
The Professional Jockeys Association said its female members experience "inadequate safeguarding and discriminatory facilities" after only 12 of Britain's racecourses met the original deadline for providing minimum-standard weighing room facilities.
HISA provisionally suspended Paco Lopez from all racing activities under HISA's jurisdiction, effective immediately, after the jockey was captured on video striking his mount National Law in the neck area after the fifth race at Parx Racing Dec. 3.
Although finding a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner among the victors in the Remsen Stakes (G2) may send you back to 1994, lately the 1 1/8-mile stakes has produced more than its fair share of top-level 3-year-olds.
Blue Point has sired top-level winners Big Evs and Rosallion from his first crop in 2023. Rosallion landed the Irish Two Thousand Guineas (G1) and St James's Palace Stakes (G1), and Big Evs won the King George Stakes (G1) at Goodwood this year.
The New York Racing Association revealed the stakes schedule for the 49-day winter meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, which will feature 20 stakes worth $3.1 million in total purses.
Dec. 3 is "Giving Tuesday," a day that celebrates generosity around the world. Several organizations within the Thoroughbred industry are seeking donations on the charitable day.