Bern Identity gets victory - July 22, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Favored Bern Identity overtook Handsome Jack in the final sixteenth mile and moved on to a 1 1/4-length v...
Belmont winner Union Rags retires - July 21, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags has been retired because of a tendon injury in his left front leg...The ...
Acclamation wins Eddie Read at Del Mar - July 21, 2012
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) - Acclamation led all the way in defeating Interaction by 23/4 lengths to win the $300,000 Eddie Read Stakes for t...
Royal Delta wins Grade II Delaware Handicap - July 21, 2012
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Royal Delta took the lead coming out of the final turn and beat Tiz Miz Sue by a neck Saturday to win the 75th ...
Howe Great draws off to win $60,000 Jersey Derby - July 21, 2012
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) - Howe Great took the lead near the top of the stretch and drew off to win the $60,000 Jersey Derby at Monmouth Pa...
Questing wins 3-year-old fillies race at Saratoga - July 21, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Questing moved to seize control with more than a half-mile to run and was never threatened while taking a...
Tilde wins feature at Del Mar - July 20, 2012
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) - Tilde defeated Cotton's Point by 31/2 lengths to win the $100,000 California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association ...
So Many Ways earns win at Saratoga - July 20, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - So Many Ways and jockey Javier Castellano took control inside the sixteenth pole en route to a 1 1/2-leng...
Owners to run 2-year-olds without race-day drugs - July 19, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Some prominent owners and breeders are pledging to run their 2-year-olds this year without race-day medications,...
Trainer Mitchell at Del Mar after brain surgery - July 19, 2012
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) - Trainer Mike Mitchell attended the races at Del Mar less than three weeks after undergoing brain surgery...Mitch...
Horse co-owned by Drew Brees comes out OK - July 19, 2012
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) - Holy Candy, a 3-year-old colt co-owned by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, will be fine after being pu...
Horse trainer Frank Martin dead at 86 - July 19, 2012
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Hall of Fame trainer Frank ``Pancho'' Martin, who oversaw 1973 Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Sham, ha...
NY court OKs Derby-winning trainer's 10-year ban - July 19, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An appeals court on Thursday upheld a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred trainer's 10-year ban from the sport for ...
NY court upholds horse trainer's 10-year ban - July 19, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A New York court has upheld a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred trainer's 10-year ban from the sport...In Thursda...
Racing opens at Saratoga amid scrutiny, tumult - July 19, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Racing opens at the storied Saratoga Race Course as congressional scrutiny about horse doping and a state...
3 hurt horses put down after Saratoga's open house - July 19, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Three horses have been euthanized after suffering injuries during non-betting steeplechase races held at ...
Opening day attracts record crowd at Del Mar - July 19, 2012
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) - Midnight Crooner and My Best Brother won divisions of the $109,300 Oceanside Stakes in front of a record crowd o...
Dhaamer wins Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park - July 15, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Dhaamer won the $98,000 Sunset Handicap by 3 1/4 lengths Sunday on the closing day of Betfair Hollywood Park's...
Counterparty wins Belmont's closing day feature - July 15, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Counterparty, the 9-5 favorite, beat Adjacent by a half length in the $79,000 allowance feature for fillies and mares o...
Bodemeister out of Haskell with fever - July 15, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister has a fever, and trainer Bob Baffert says the colt won't run in the ...
A Rocknroll Dance wins $600,000 Meadowlands Pace - July 14, 2012
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - A Rocknroll Dance took the lead on the backstretch and never looked back in posting a 1 1/2-length victory...
Switch wins A Gleam to earn Breeders' Cup berth - July 14, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Switch rallied in the stretch to win the $200,000 A Gleam Handicap by 13/4 lengths and earn a berth in the Bre...
Executiveprivilege wins Landaluce for Baffert - July 14, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Executiveprivilege won the $150,000 Landaluce Stakes by 31/4 lengths on Saturday, prompting Hall of Fame train...
Gelding Scherer Magic wins Hollywood Juvenile - July 14, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Scherer Magic has won the $150,000 Hollywood Juvenile Championship by 21/2 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park.....
Point of Entry wins Belmont's Man o' War Stakes - July 14, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Point of Entry extended his winning streak to three on Saturday with the biggest score of his career, a 31/2 length vic...
Master Chef wins Betfair Hollywood Park feature - July 14, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Master Chef won for the second time in less than a month Friday night, beating Memphis by a nose to take the $...
Emily Allstar wins Belmont feature - July 13, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Emily Allstar rallied to capture the $74,000 allowance feature for fillies and mares on Friday at Belmont Park...Surgin...
Vet says I'll Have Another's care was legit - July 13, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The on-call veterinarian for the Triple Crown races says that Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Anoth...
Millenia romps in Monmouth Park featured race - July 13, 2012
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) - Millenia assumed command inside the eighth pole and went to post a 33/4-length victory over Crying Lightning in ...
Trainer Linda Toscano has shot a Meadowlands Pace - July 13, 2012
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Linda Toscano will try to become the first female trainer to win the Meadowlands Pace when Heston Blue Chi...
Arraignment wins Hollywood Park feature - July 12, 2012
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Arraignment won the $53,012 feature by three-quarters of a length on Thursday at Betfair Hollywood Park...Ridd...
Jockey guilty of assaulting ex-girlfriend - July 12, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A jury in Louisville has found jockey Robby Albarado guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend...A Jefferson Co...
Inflation Target wins Belmont feature - July 12, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Even-money favorite Inflation Target rallied to beat Bravo Romeo by three-quarters of a length in the $72,000 allowance...
Need for federal oversight of horse racing debated - July 12, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top horse racing industry figures took different sides before Congress on Thursday over whether the sport needs feder...
Trainer O'Neill drops appeal of suspension - July 11, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness-winning trainer Doug O'Neill says he's dropped his appeal of a 45-day suspension stemmi...
Belmont winner Union Rags out with ligament injury - July 11, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - First I'll Have Another, now Union Rags...Injuries to the left front legs of both 3-year-old colts have left thoroughbr...
Report: I'll Have Another ailing before Belmont - July 11, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another was ailing well before he was retired from racing with a tendon i...
Belmont winner Union Rags out with tendon injury - July 11, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags has a minor ligament injury in his left front leg and will be sidelined for the rest o...
Japan farm paid $10 million for I'll Have Another - July 9, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of I'll Have Another says he sold his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner to a farm in Japan for $10 million,...
Velazquez cleared to exercise horses next week - July 9, 2012
Top jockey John Velazquez has been cleared to begin exercising horses next week, a month after breaking his collarbone in a spill at Ch...