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Indianapolis may be best known for Indy Car racing, but race fans can find a whole different kind of horsepower with Thoroughbred racing at the Horseshoe Indianapolis 2025 meet, currently running from ...
First run in 2013, the Penn Mile is a one-mile (eight furlong) turf race for 3-year-olds that was graded for the first time in 2015. Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Bobby’s Kitten won the race with ...
Tom Pedulla has been the lead writer for America's Best Racing since its inception. He has covered every Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup race since 1997. He wrote the critically-acclaimed autobiography ...
Bob Ehalt has been an avid fan of Thoroughbred racing since that day in June of 1971 when he and his father walked from their Queens Village, N.Y., home to Belmont Park to see Canonero II fall short ...
A lifelong equestrian and native of Portland, Ore., Miller was first introduced to horse racing upon moving to Lexington in 2017. After spending a year immersed in the raising of Thoroughbreds, she ...
After an exciting several months of preparation, horse racing’s biggest moment is only days away, as the best 3-year-old Thoroughbreds are set to compete May 3 in the $5 million Kentucky Derby ...
The $500,000, Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by Twinspires.com scheduled for Saturday at Aqueduct offers one final opportunity for accomplished dirt mile horses to compete in a marquee race ...
The $1 million, Grade 1 Whitney Stakes Saturday at Saratoga Race Course is one of the most important races in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic division as well as one of the marquee summertime races ...
The focus of the horse racing world zeroes in on Saratoga Race Course Aug. 24 for the 155th running of the DraftKings Travers Stakes. The 1 ¼-mile Travers, called the “Mid-Summer Derby,” is the most ...
The Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is rightfully known as the most exciting two minutes in sports; once the Churchill Downs starting gate springs open anything can (and often does) ...
The Florida Derby has historically been the most important steppingstone to the Kentucky Derby with 25 3-year-olds who competed in the race going on to glory in the first jewel of the Triple Crown.
Enter Sandman in the Preakness? Yes, indeed. In a post on X on Saturday, May 10, the Preakness Stakes announced that Arkansas Derby winner and Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve ...