Horse Racing

The West Virginia Racing Commission (WVRC) on Tuesday opted to take no action either way on whether to collect and remit fees on behalf of the new Authority created by the federal Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA). States are facing a May 1 deadline to declare “in or out” middleman status pertaining to the

2022 Kentucky Derby Track Notes 2022 Kentucky Derby Track Notes Date: 4/23/2022 All days: 4/22, 4/23 Today was the first day for the exclusive 7:30-7:45am training session for Kentucky Derby and Oaks horses, which will continue until Derby Day. From a Churchill Downs press release: Kentucky Derby and Oaks contenders kicked it into high gear

by Jessica Martini & Christie DeBernardis OCALA, FL – The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds, which had already surpassed its record gross during Thursday’s penultimate session, powered straight through to the finish Friday, concluding with new highwater marks for average and median, as well as gross. At the end of four days

The purpose-built stables and adjoining paddock stretch almost as far as the high grey, exterior wall of Castlerea Prison in central Ireland. For the men held at the medium-security jail in County Roscommon, the horses provide an opportunity to learn practical skills — and develop more compassion through their work. The new equine centre —

For more than two years, people in Hong Kong have lived under some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in the world. But one beloved tradition has persisted: horse racing. Throughout the pandemic the Chinese city has gone to great lengths to protect the sport from shutdowns, even as schools closed and infections tore through elderly

9:42 AM ET Associated Press The Kentucky Derby television broadcast will be produced by a woman for the first time in the 148-year history of the race. Lindsay Schanzer is the new senior producer for NBC Sports’ Derby coverage, overseeing the network’s horse racing production. It’s her 10th Derby but her first running the show

Two weeks after a Kentucky Court of Appeals judge denied trainer Bob Baffert and owner Amr Zedan an “emergency” stay in their fight against the penalties levied against them by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) over Medina Spirit (Protonico)’s betamethasone positive in the 2021 GI Kentucky Derby, a separate three-judge panel denied a motion

4:50 PM ET Associated Press Zippy Chippy, horse racing’s lovable loser for never winning in 100 races, has died at the age of 31. The bay gelding was living at the Bobby Frankel Division of Old Friends at Cabin Creek thoroughbred retirement farm near Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York since 2010. The farm

The 2021 Sovereign Awards The Sovereign Awards Owner Lawrence Cordes and trainer Josie Carroll holding Mighty Heart’s Horse of the Year blanket Date: 04/14/2022 The 47th annual Sovereign Awards, saluting outstanding achievement in Canadian Thoroughbred racing and breeding in 2021, were handed out at a ceremony on Thursday evening at Universal EventSpace in Vaughan, Ontario,

The fifth session of the under-tack show for next week’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, suspended just under three hours by heavy rain, produced a pair of :9 4/5 bullet breezers, while two juveniles shared the fastest quarter-mile time of :21 flat Thursday in Central Florida. First to hit the

          Derby Winner Auction Prices 2021 Medina Spirit $35,000 2020 Authentic $350,000 2018 Justify $500,000 2017 Always Dreaming $350,000 2016 Nyquist $400,000 2015 American Pharoah $300,000 2012 I’ll Have Another $35,000 2011 Animal Kingdom $100,000 2009 Mine That Bird $9,500 2008 Big Brown $190,000 2003 Funny Cide $22,000 2002 War Emblem $20,000 2001 Monarchos $170,000 2000

2022 Santa Anita Derby Day Part 1 2022 Santa Anita Derby Day Mike Smith celebrates aboard Taiba after winning the Santa Anita Derby Part 2 – Royal Heroine (G2), Monrovia (G2), and Echo Eddie Stakes Date: 04/09/2022 The major California prep race for the Triple Crown is the $750,000 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1) for

MyRacehorse and Spendthrift Farm’s multiple graded stakes-winning 3-year-old Forbidden Kingdom (American Pharoah), who retreated to finish last as the favorite in Saturday’s GI Runhappy Santa Anita Derby, will be taken off the GI Kentucky Derby trail with an epiglottis issue, trainer Richard Mandella told Horse Racing Nation Sunday. “We are going to look under his

5:40 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Mo Donegal rallied to win the $750,000 Wood Memorial on Saturday at Aqueduct on the last weekend of major prep races for the Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Mo Donegal ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:47.96. Trainer Todd Pletcher tied “Sunny” Jim Fitzsimmons for most Wood

12:51 PM ET Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England — Amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen had quite the retirement ride Saturday. The 39-year-old Waley-Cohen marked his final race in the saddle by winning the world-famous Grand National horse race aboard a big outsider in 50-1 shot Noble Yeats. “It’s a fairy tale. It’s a fantasy,” said Waley-Cohen, who

Amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen made his last ride a memorable one as he won the world’s greatest steeplechase, the Grand National, on 50-1 shot Noble Yeats at Aintree on Saturday. Waley-Cohen — who turns 40 next Friday — had ridden six winners over the National fences prior to Saturday but he reserved his greatest moment

Henry de Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore may have had, in the former’s words, “plenty of tough moments” this season, but also some magical ones and Saturday may bring another if Minella Times wins a second straight Grand National at Aintree. De Bromhead, who also saddles outsider Poker Party, acknowledged to AFP that Blackmore and Minella

Housing as many as three GI Kentucky Derby starters in his barn, trainer Kenny McPeek joined the TDN Writers’ Room presented by Keeneland as the Green Group Guest of the Week Tuesday to discuss Tiz the Bomb (Hit It a Bomb)’s dirt prospects and potential summer European campaign, his plan for likely GI Toyota Blue