Horse Racing

Associated Press Jan 25, 2025, 06:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — White Abarrio won the $3 million Pegasus World Cup with a dominant performance at Gulfstream on Saturday. He ran 1⅛ miles in 1:48.05 under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., who earned his third career Pegasus victory. Sent off as the 5-2

Hallandale, FL–As recently as last June, C2 Racing Stable, Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and Antonio Pagnano’s White Abarrio (Race Day) was running for the come-backing Rick Dutrow Jr. after departing the Saffie Joseph Jr. barn. For Joseph, it was a tough pill to swallow given the striking grey had won a pair

Associated Press Jan 23, 2025, 11:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PALM BEACH, Fla. — Thorpedo Anna won Horse of the Year honors at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night, becoming only the second 3-year-old filly to beat male competition for the top trophy. Trained by Ken McPeek, she earned six Grade 1 victories last

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Thorpedo Anna won Horse of the Year honors at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night, becoming only the second 3-year-old filly to beat male competition for the top trophy. Trained by Ken McPeek, she earned six Grade 1 victories last year, including the Kentucky Oaks, and finished second in the

Stakes-winning Tuscan Sky (Vino Rosso) (hip 7), winner of last year’s listed Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park, topped the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale Tuesday when selling for $450,000 to West Bloodstock. The January Digital Sale, which saw an average of $28,073 and a clearance rate of 79% for its catalogue of horses of racing age,

Jonbon became the first horse in 18 years – since Kauto Star – to earn back-to-back wins in the Tingle Creek in December [Getty Images] Jonbon showed his class as the leading horse of the two-mile chasing division, beating Energumene by six and a half lengths to win the Clarence House Chase at Ascot. It

Multiple graded winners Newgrange (Violence) and Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator) each recorded their final works Friday in preparation for the 1 1/8-mile, $3-million, Jan. 25 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park. Newgrange, who was previously trained by Phil D’Amato and is now in the barn of Jose D’Angelo, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 at Palm

An appreciation, by T.D. Thornton In the mid-1960s, Rocco Gabriella started his career as a jockey by literally standing on his head to try and make it into the winner’s circle. He didn’t get his photo taken there all that many times during a two-decade career that largely played out in and around his beloved

The devastating wildfires that have swept through Los Angeles and left countless families homeless are also impacting the horse racing community in the city. Dan Blacker, the British-born Breeders’ Cup-winning trainer based at Santa Anita in Los Angeles, has spoken about how “dreadful” the situation is. Blacker, the son of British former jockey turned sculptor

Associated Press Jan 11, 2025, 01:32 PM ET LOS ANGELES — A flare-up of the wildfire on the west side of Los Angeles that prompted new evacuations has caused Santa Anita to cancel horse racing this weekend. The track in Arcadia, near the smoldering Eaton fire that decimated Altadena, had said Friday that it would

Christopher L. Merz has been named the new executive director of the Maryland Racing Commission, according to the state’s department of labor. Merz succeeded Mike Hopkins, who retired Dec. 31 after 41 years at the Maryland Racing Commission, including the last 24 as the executive director. Merz has vast experience in the industry and has

Santa Anita opened its track Thursday morning to limited training–just joggers and gallopers for most of the morning. For the Santa Anita backstretch community, it was a slice of normality as the extent of the damage caused by the wildfires that have ripped across Los Angeles this week began to set in. “I’ve lived there

Associated Press Jan 9, 2025, 06:27 PM ET Santa Anita Park postponed Friday’s racing program until Jan. 16 because of poor air quality forecast in Arcadia, California, near the Eaton Fire. The California Horse Racing Board approved the rescheduling of the 10-race card, which will be run with the horses previously entered. “While Santa Anita

Jan. 7—CELINA — Bob Geist, superintendent of the harness program at the Mercer County Fair, has been named the recipient of the Ohio Colt Racing Association’s Dr. H.D. Schoonover Award and the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s 23rd annual Dick Brandt Sr. “Extra Effort” award. The honors recognize individuals who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and passion for

Look Forward (Bolt d’Oro) was a nice first-out winner for the late Ben Cecil at Del Mar when she took she took her competition gate to wire while posting an 82 Beyer Speed Figure Nov. 8. Transferred to Michael McCarthy’s care, she was then tested for class in the GII Starlet Stakes, stretching out to

Associated Press Jan 4, 2025, 09:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ARCADIA, Calif. — Barnes defeated stablemate Romanesque by 5½ lengths to win the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert in a field of Kentucky Derby hopefuls on Saturday at Santa Anita. Ridden by Juan Hernandez, Barnes ran seven furlongs

The New York Racing Association on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss itself from a lawsuit recently filed against the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) and others in a Kentucky federal district court. The case will not end, however, as Churchill Downs Inc. remains a plaintiff against HISA, a private regulatory organization that Congress

Tennessee Moon (Ransom the Moon) is not the type of horse to make headlines, but maybe that’s because we’ve forgotten how special and admirable some of these blue-collar horses can be. The 5-year-old owned and trained by 56-year-old Mark Hibdon won 13 times from 18 starts in 2024, winning more races than any other horse