Horse Racing

1:14 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — A necropsy on 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit showed no definitive cause of death. The California Horse Racing Board on Friday released the results of the examination performed after the colt collapsed and died following a workout on Dec. 6 at Santa Anita. Trainer Bob Baffert

A necropsy on 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit showed no definitive cause of death, the California Horse Racing Board said on Friday. The colt trained by Bob Baffert collapsed and died at the end of a workout at Santa Anita Park. At the time, Medina Spirit’s owner, Amr Zedan, told the Thoroughbred Daily News

2021 Eclipse Award Winners Eclipse with Mr.Wildman & His Sonsby George StubbsBuy from Amazon.com 2021 Eclipse Award Winners Date: 02/10/2022 The 51st annual Eclipse Awards were presented Thursday night at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California honoring the champions of North American racing in 2021. Of the 245 eligible voters represented by the NTRA, consisting

The 2021 Sovereign Award Finalists Mighty Heart was Champion 3-year-old Male & Horse of the Year for 2020 2021 Sovereign Award Finalists Updates: 02/15/2021 The Jockey Club of Canada has announced the finalists for the 2021 Sovereign Awards, Canadian thoroughbred racing’s year end championships. Winners will be announced at the 47th Annual Sovereign Awards ceremonies

LEXINGTON, KY–Recent GI La Brea S. runner-up Brilliant Cut (Speightstown) (hip 541) was as popular as many expected her to be, topping the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale at $750,000. Japan’s Katsumi Yoshida was the winning bidder over the internet. A total of 431 horses changed hands during the two-day auction for a gross of $17,245,500

2022 Las Virgenes and Robert B. Lewis Stakes 2022 Las Virgenes and Robert B. Lewis Stakes Adare Manor with John Velazquez aboard after winning the Las Virgenes Stakes Date: 2/06/2022 There were two stakes races on Sunday at Santa Anita for the three-year-olds. The first of these was the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G3) for

Opalina (Optimizer), the third choice in a wide-open pari-mutuel affair, took the overland route into the final furlong and a half of Saturday’s GIII Sweetest Chant S. at Gulfstream Park, but stayed on gamely late to become the first black-type winner for her Calumet Farm-based stallion. One of the first to break the line from

Urging their mounts to a gallop, teenage jockeys dash along the dirt track at a weekly race in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou before excited spectators. Horses have for centuries held a central place in the culture of Burkina Faso, where the national football team is called the Stallions and the Golden Stallion of Yennenga is

A New York jury began deliberations Feb. 1 in the horse doping trial of Dr. Seth Fishman. The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for about 30 minutes before retiring for the night without reaching a verdict. They resume deliberations the morning of Feb. 2. The charges against Fishman, a 50-year-old Florida veterinarian,

2023 Pegasus World Cup Turf 2023 Pegasus World Cup Turf Date: 1/28/2023 The $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) presented by Qatar Racing was contested on Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park in south Florida. Conditions were excellent in South Florida, with cloudy skies and temperatures in the high 70’s, and the turf course

2023 Pegasus World Cup Undercard Stakes 2023 Pegasus World Cup Undercard Date: 1/28/2023 Pegasus World Cup (G1) day at Gulfstream Park was conducted under typical racing conditions for south Florida in winter — cloudy skies and temperatures in the high 70’s, with the 1 1/8 mile main track rated fast and the turf course firm.

2023 Pegasus World Cup 2023 Pegasus World Cup Date: 1/28/2023 The seventh running of the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) presented by Baccarat for older horses was contested on Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. Conditions were excellent in South Florida, with cloudy skies and temperatures in the high 70’s, with

7:49 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Forbidden Kingdom beat a trio of runners trained by Bob Baffert to win the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths on Saturday at Santa Anita. Baffert’s trio of Pinehurst, McLaren Vale and 4-5 favorite Doppelganger finished second, third and fourth in the race that the

Alphabet Soup (Cozzene–Illiterate, by Arts and Letters), who won a memorable renewal of the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Woodbine in 1996, died Jan. 28 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Kentucky, due to chronic kidney disease. The oldest living Classic winner, the gray was 31 years old and had been pensioned at

2022 Eclipse Award Winners Eclipse with Mr.Wildman & His Sonsby George StubbsBuy from Amazon.com 2022 Eclipse Award Winners Date: 01/26/2022 The 52nd annual Eclipse Awards were presented Thursday night at The Breakers Palm Beach honoring the champions of North American racing in 2022. Of the 258 eligible voters represented by the NTRA, consisting of member

Just three days after he and partner Michael Tabor spent €3 million on Group I winning filly Rougir (Fr) (Territories {Ire}) at the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, owner Peter Brant got a most unwelcome surprise. Rougir’s trainer, Cedric Rossi, was arrested Dec. 7 as part of a probe into equine doping that also involved

A New York federal jury heard opening statements Jan. 20 as the horse doping conspiracy trial of Dr. Seth Fishman and Lisa Giannelli got underway. Prosecutor Anden Chow began by telling jurors that the defendants had operated a black market drug conspiracy for two decades. He said Fishman and Giannelli created hundreds of drugs that

2022 Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool Two 2022 Kentucky Derby Future WagerPool Two Updated: 01/18/2022 Pool Two of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager opens for betting at noon ET on Friday January 21 and closes on Sunday at 6pm. As has been the case every year the bet has been offered, the mutuel field consisting