With six stakes being offered, Laurel Park features its biggest day of the winter meet on Saturday. Four stakes are part of the Late Pick 5, including the Barbara Fritchie (G3) and…
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Dirt, turf, synthetic—Kentucky Derby contender Rombauer has run well over all three surfaces. The secret to his multi-surface success lies in his pedigree.
Winning the Kentucky Derby requires a combination of speed and stamina, and it appears Mandaloun has inherited a perfect blend of both traits.
Laurel Park features six stakes on Saturday’s nine-race program. Formidable favorites can be found, with Hello Beautiful topping the Barbara Fritchie S. (G3) and Lucky Stride the top draw in the Nellie…
It’s Super Bowl weekend in Tampa Bay. And before the big game takes place on Sunday, Tampa Bay Downs will offer its Festival Preview Day program on Saturday, a 12-race card featuring…
Another enticing eight-race program awaits horseplayers at Turfway Park on Friday. Nine are set for the opener, and it’s only race with less than 12 runners entered.
An exciting 3-year-old filly, Abrogate, will make her second career start at Oaklawn Park on Sunday, and she is key to a Late Pick 4 ticket.
A century ago, January 21st saw racing in the midst of its yearly changing of the guard, the champions of 1920 giving way to their successors.
Football fans remember Hornung for his Hall of Fame career in the Vince Lombardi era, and as a Heisman Trophy winner at Notre Dame, but did you know that his lifelong dream was to have a horse in the Kentucky Derby (G1)? It almost happened in 2013, with a colt aptly named Titletown Five.
Turfway Park begins its three-day week with another competitive eight-race program on Thursday. Field sizes have been terrific this winter in Florence, Kentucky, and the Polytrack has been formful, with favorites…
Carry Back’s tenacity and toughness showed us all why he was such a beloved figure in horse racing in the 1960s and beyond.
Enter Pinnacle Race Course; By 1936, racing in Michigan was thriving, Seabiscuit ran his first race for Tom Smith there. Fast forward 70 years and MI tracks were floundering.