Horse Racing

Ken McPeek wins 2,000th race Trainer Ken McPeek at the 2022 Alibi Breakfast. Ken McPeek reaches 2,000 wins Date: 2/22/2024 Trainer Ken McPeek notched win number 2,000 with Winnable in the fifth race at Turfway Park on Wednesday evening. His first victory was in 1985 at River Downs in Ohio with Final Destroyer, and he

Last year’s Eclipse champion 3-year-old filly Pretty Mischievous (f, 4, Into Mischief-Pretty City Dancer, by Tapit) recorded her first work since her championship campaign Thursday morning at Palm Meadows in Florida. The three furlongs she covered in :37.65 was her first breeze in nearly four months. “She went nice, just an easy three-eighths and galloped

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Eric and Sharon Waller’s homebred Stronghold (Ghostzapper) shipped from trainer Phil D’Amato’s Southern California base to Sunland Park in New Mexico and will return home with 20 additional qualifying points to the GI Kentucky Derby after his two-length victory in the GIII Sunland Park Derby Sunday. Second behind Nysos (Nyquist) in the Nov. 19 GIII

The road to the 2024 Kentucky Derby will kick into gear this weekend with the first major prep race in New Orleans. Several low-point prep races already have taken place this year, but the first race in the Kentucky Derby Championship Series will be the $400,000, Grade 2 Risen Star on Saturday at Fair Grounds.

Frank Taylor, the director of new business and development for Taylor Made, knew that there was an acute labor shortage in Kentucky, with farms unable to find reliable help. But Taylor thought he had a solution. Identify those who were struggling with substance abuse problems, put them into a recovery program and, when they are

Triple Crown Trail 2024 Mage winner of the 2023 Kentucky Derby 2024 Triple Crown Trail Updated: 2/19/2024 It’s that time of year again when the soon-to-be three-year-old Thoroughbreds start their campaign for the 2024 Kentucky Derby and dream of the elusive Triple Crown. Until mid-April, there will be a prep race somewhere most weekends from

2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby and Oaks Points 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby and Oaks Points Updated: 2/11/2024 The Kentucky Derby is on May 4, 2024, and the contenders earn points in selected prep races across the country. Since the Derby field is limited to 20 entrants (with a maximum for 4 also-eligibles),

Endlessly (Oscar Performance) got back in the winner’s circle and earned himself a trip to the Triple Crown’s middle jewel with a win in Saturday’s El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate. Having gone three for three to start his career, including wins in both the GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf S. and the GIII

Shishkin will now head to the Cheltenham Festival Shishkin had to work hard before getting his first win of the season and put himself well in contention for next month’s Cheltenham Gold Cup. The Nicky Henderson-trained horse had unseated jockey Nico de Boinville at Kempton last time out after refusing to race in his season-opener

As a grey, Vanillier will be a popular choice with many casual punters – Getty Images/Michael Steele Corach Rambler, the winner of last year’s Grand National, has been confirmed among the entries for this year’s race, along with 93 other horses. The deadline for trainers to enter their horses was February 6. The next staging

Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper), the Eclipse Award-winning Champion Female Sprinter of 2022 and 2023, who sold for $6 million at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, will be retired and bred to Not This Time, according to a press release from John Stewart’s Resolute Farm. Goodnight Olive earned $2.196 million on the racetrack, winning nine of 12

Speed isn’t everything at one racecourse in Japan, where the unpredictable stop-and-start drama of the world’s slowest horse race has drawn new fans eager to bet on their sturdy favourite. A fanfare plays, the gates flip open and they’re off — but at a plod rather than a gallop, pulling heavy sleighs in a tradition

2024 Withers Stakes Results 2024 Withers Stakes Results Mychel Sanchez celebrates after winning the Withers Stakes aboard Uncle Heavy Date: 2/03/2024 The highlight race at Aqueduct on Saturday was the $250,000 Withers Stakes (G3), a 1 1/8 mile main track contest for 3-year-olds and a points-scoring event in the Road to the Kentucky Derby. Conditions

Breaking on top despite a slight bobble after the jump, Comparative (Street Sense) was headed only once in the GIII Bayakoa S., but put that rival away in the lane to hold off all comers in a gutsy performance to pick up her first graded win. On a two-race win-streak coming into this contest after

Associated Press Feb 1, 2024, 03:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs will move the post draws for the 150th Kentucky Derby and Oaks to one full week before horse racing’s marquee event on May 4. The move is intended to provide better handicapping information for bettors and have entries onsite

Associated Press Jan 31, 2024, 02:24 PM ET CRAWFORD, N.Y. — A harness racing trainer in upstate New York was accused of striking a horse and fracturing its skull, requiring the animal to be euthanized, authorities said. Frederick Bourgault, 26, was arraigned Tuesday on two charges in connection with the death of a race horse

Kentucky Derby fans will get a full week to discuss post positions and morning-line odds for the 2024 race. Churchill Downs confirmed the draw for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby will be held Saturday, April 27, a full seven days before the May 4 running. The draw was held the Monday before the