Kentucky Adopts Drug Testing for Horses
The officials of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission have taken a step to equal similar organizations in New York, New Jersey, and Indiana: horses racing in the state of Kentucky read More…
Injured Jockey Begins Recovery Process
The Jockey injured at Golden Gate Fields race track is reportedly responding well to medical care. Michael Martinez was severely injured during a race on Sunday, severing his spinal cord read More…
Secretariat: The Movie
The greatest horse ever to race in the modern era’s life will soon be coming out on the silver screen. “Secretariat,” a Disney movie starring John Malkovich and Diane Lane, read More…
The Heat Gets Turned up at Saratoga
Saratoga’s meet will be ending this week on a high note. Today, there is a two day pick six carryover of $443,274, one of the largest pick sixes of this read More…
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company held their annual yearling sale this past week. Despite the nation’s poor economic outlook, yearling sales were up for all three sessions of the auction. read More…
California Horse Betting Laws
A bill has been introduced in California’s state assembly that would increase the track takeout for exotic bets. The takeout for two-horse exotics would be raised by 2 percent, from read More…
Ice Box is Burning
Ice Box appears as if he will be running in the Travers Stakes next Saturday. Trainer Nick Zito had the horse work five furlongs, where the Kentucky Derby runner-up ran read More…
Tough Work for Jockey’s
Jockeys have the toughest physical job of anyone involved in the training and racing of thoroughbreds. Top jockeys have five or more mounts a day, every day, with very little read More…
Paddy O’Prado Back on Dirt
Paddy O’Prado is the top three year old turf horse in the nation. Despite this, his trainer and owners are aiming him for the $400,000 Secretariat on August 21, a read More…
Del Mar Race Track will be having another carryover
The Del Mar Race Track will be having another carryover on their Pick 6 on Wednesday, August 11; this time, with a carryover of $178,834. Wednesday’s card should prove to read More…
Tuscan Evening
The mare Tuscan Evening was cut down in the prime of her career. The winner of nine stakes races and over $1.1 million, died on Sunday after completing a 6 read More…
Zenyatta Remains Perfect
It was as if Zenyatta knew she had the race won. In Saturday’s victory at Del Mar, Zenyatta stayed relaxed throughout the entire race, only surging around the far turn read More…
The perfect Zenyatta
The perfect Zenyatta will be putting her claim as the most dominant horse of recent memory on the line tomorrow at the Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar. The horse read More…
Lookin at Lucky Recovers
Lookin at Lucky was a little under the weather after a convincing win at the Haskell Invitational held at Monmouth Park on Sunday, August 1st. As a result of the read More…
Lookin at Lucky Dominates
Lookin at Lucky finished with a four length victory at the Haskell Invitational on Sunday, August first. The 2010 Preakness Stakes winner dominated a field that included Kentucky Derby Winner read More…
