Wow, did Teddy Spaghetti have a great day today! I had consciously decided to not dedicate this month’s blog solely to his first horse show – but as I am sitting down to write this after just getting ...

Racing from Belmont at the Big A and Monmouth Park will air on “America’s Day at the Races” four days this week and weekend, starting Friday, May 23, and ending on Memorial Day, May 26. NYRA’s ...

A top early season target for routers and milers 4 years and older, the Metropolitan Handicap was first run in 1891 and is held at New York’s Belmont Park. The one mile (eight furlongs) race on the ...

I’m Kaitlyn, a Maryland native who packed up four years ago and moved to Lexington, Ky. I have always been a horse lover and grew up riding since the age of six. In 2002 I fell in love with horse ...

Sovereignty emerged from his come-from-behind victory in the May 3 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve in good condition, aside from what trainer Bill Mott believes to be a superficial ...

Recent Kentucky Derbys have certainly lived up to that reputation. The past three have seen double-digit odds horses win under Churchill Downs’ iconic Twin Spires, including the second-biggest ...

The $1.5 million Longines Kentucky Oaks is the premier dirt race for 3-year-old fillies in North America, a 1 1/8-mile test that goes a long way toward determining the Eclipse Award in the division ...

The $500,000, Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by Twinspires.com scheduled for Saturday at Aqueduct offers one final opportunity for accomplished dirt mile horses to compete in a marquee race ...

All appears well at trainer Bill Mott’s Churchill Downs barn after Sovereignty’s victory in the $5 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on May 3. As Mott and the Godolphin team ponder ...

1. Journalism (6-5 morning-line odds) Jockey: Umberto Rispoli Trainer: Michael McCarthy Owners: Bridlewood Farm, Don Alberto Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Elayne Stables 5, Robert V. Lapenta, ...

Second, the Belmont Stakes drew an extremely competitive field of 3-year-olds headed by Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve winner Mystik Dan and Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey.Due to ...

For 2024, the purse of the Preakness Stakes has been boosted to $2 million, and the race kicks off a three-race series of Grade 1 stakes at tracks owned by 1/ST with a $5 million prize granted to any ...