Horse Racing

According to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, Ron Paolucci, once among the winningest owners in the sport, has been sentenced to 52 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $38.9 million in restitution to the IRS. The story was first reported by the Blood-Horse. Paolucci,

There is expected to be a flurry of Maryland thoroughbred horse racing activity over the next two-and-a-half years — the construction of a training track, the establishment of a new operator, the closure of a longtime venue, and an entirely renovated Pimlico Race Course — and leading the efforts will be Bill Knauf, a former

2024 E.P. Taylor Stakes 2024 E.P. Taylor Stakes Date: 09/14/2024 The $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1) for older fillies and mares going 1 1/4 miles on the turf, is traditionally run in October on the Canadian International undercard, but with the cancellation of the International in 2024, the race was moved to the Woodbine Mile

2024 Woodbine Mile Results 2024 Woodbine Mile Results Date: 09/14/2024 The $1 million Rogers Woodbine Mile (G1) celebrated its 28th renewal on Saturday afternoon. Run at 1 mile around one turn of the E.P. Taylor Turf Course, it features some of the best turf milers in North America and Europe looking for an automatic entry

LEXINGTON, KY – The Keeneland September Yearling Sale entered Book 3 with a session dominated by colts as buyers targeted stallion prospects Saturday in Lexington. Leading the way was a son of Practical Joke who sold for $900,000 to the bid of Monique Delk, bidding on behalf of Vinnie Viola’s St. Elias Stable. During Saturday’s

Illinois won at Royal Ascot and has never been out of the first three in seven races [Getty Images] Aidan O’Brien has three of the seven runners for the St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday. The Irish trainer, seeking an eighth triumph in the world’s oldest Classic, will run Illinois, Jan Brueghel and Grosvenor Square.

2024 Del Mar Futurity Results 2024 Del Mar Futurity Flavien Prat celebrates aboard Gaming after winning the 2024 Del Mar Futurity Date: 9/08/2024 Del Mar’s summer meeting ended on Sunday with the traditional closing day feature, the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) for 2-year-olds sprinting 7 furlongs on the main track. Del Mar Thoroughbred Club

Legendary trainer Sir Michael Stoute has announced he will retire later this year. The 78-year-old has been champion trainer 10 times and won the Derby at Epsom on six occasions. He won the 1981 Derby with the brilliant Shergar, who was later kidnapped, and landed the 2013 Gold Cup in Ascot with Estimate owned by

Thought Process (Collected) held her ground in the stretch of the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes to secure her first career black-type. Third on debut July 27 when sprinting on the main track, the chestnut found grass to her liking less than a month later, breaking her maiden Aug. 17 when stretched out to

The fields have been set for Saturday’s FanDuel TV U.S. Open Turf Championships: six graded stakes at Kentucky Downs worth up to $2 million each. Kentucky Downs is near Franklin, Ky. Among the entries taken Monday for Saturday’s card are horses seeking repeats of their 2023 Kentucky Downs victories: Get Smokin (G2 FanDuel TV Kentucky

Charlotte C. Weber has been chosen as the interim board chair of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame through a vote by the institution’s executive committee. Weber, previously a vice chair, will serve in the chair position formerly held by John Hendrickson, who passed away Aug. 19. Hendrickson was the museum’s chair

TORONTO (AP) — A racehorse named Swift Delivery that three-time Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce bought into has finished second in its latest start. Sent off as the even-money favorite, Swift Delivery was beaten in the $125,000 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday. He paid $2.50 and $2.10 as his

6th-Del Mar, $76,500, Msw, 8-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:09.06, ft, 5 lengths.SEISMIC BEAUTY (f, 3, Uncle Mo–Knarsdale {SP, $103,692}, by Medaglia d’Oro), a $400,000 FTKNOV weanling turned $550,000 KEESEP yearling, led into the final furlong of her Aug. 3 unveiling, but was beaten on the wire by One Magic Philly (Good Magic) while earning a

Aug. 28—When the fires and ensuing floods devastated Ruidoso this summer, New Mexico horsemen were left scrambling for ways to save the summer season for the venerable Ruidoso Downs Race Track in southern New Mexico. The ultimate solution was to move to the whole stable of horses and races north to the Downs of Albuquerque

Associated Press Aug 27, 2024, 03:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Three-time Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has bought an ownership stake in a racehorse named Swift Delivery. Team Valor International founder and CEO Barry Irwin announced Tuesday that Kelce and the Zoldan family recently acquired a significant share of the

Team Kenny McPeek–including jockey Brian Hernandez and exercise rider Danny Ramsey–will be honored along with the Backside Learning Center, turf writer Sean Clancy and broadcaster Laffit Pincay III during the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters’ 64th Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Del Mar, California. The NTWAB Annual Awards Dinner is the organization’s

2024 Pat O’Brien Stakes Results 2024 Pat O’Brien Stakes Antonio Fresu celebrates aboard Raging Torrent after winning the 2024 Pat O’Brien Stakes Date: 08/24/2024 The feature race at Del Mar on Saturday was the $250,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2) for older horses sprinting 7 furlongs on the main track and is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 06:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Fierceness held off Thorpedo Anna’s late charge to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, denying the filly’s attempt to become the first female winner of the Grade 1 race in over a century at Saratoga. Ridden by John