Golden Tempo, Renegade, and Chief Wallabee – the first-, second-, and fourth-place finishers from the Derby – are considered definite for the Belmont, which, for the third straight year, will be held ...

Dale Romans will be hard on the campaign trail this spring trying to win a Senate seat for the state of Kentucky. He’s also hoping he might be on the Kentucky Derby trail at the same time, a dream ...

<p>DRF WEEKEND: There are no obvious traces left of Brooklyn’s grand horse racing past, but from the late-1800's to 1910, the tracks at Gravesend, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay made the city ...

Irad Ortiz Jr. escaped serious injury from an incident shortly after the start of Sunday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga, but he took off his mounts on Monday, the final day of the Saratoga ...

The last story, an obituary if you will, is something no one wants to write about a racetrack. But sadly, the end will finally come to Pompano Park in a few short weeks, as the realization that the ...

The winner of next year’s National Horseplayers Championship will be guaranteed a purse of $1 million, approximately 25 percent higher than recent first-place awards.

Few people make it through life without some form of struggle. For some those moments can be few and far between while others wrestle with their vices so often that they spill over to impact their ...

Trainer Bill Mott didn’t have to wait 22 minutes for this Kentucky Derby victory. And the decades-long quest for Kentucky Derby success is over for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.

Bob Baffert has a bunch of talented horses who have posted May workouts at Churchill Downs. It's just that Baffert either doesn't yet know or isn't willing to publicly state where many of them will ...

The California Horse Racing Board on Sunday officially filed charges against apprentice jockey Eswan Flores, alleging he tested positive for cocaine, board spokesman Mike Marten said late Sunday ...

Maybe you think of the trainer Wesley Ward as “Mr. Keeneland.” Maybe you don't know this: After Keeneland wraps up in late April, Ward has proven a force during Churchill's spring meet. Last year he ...

Touch Gold, winner of the 1997 Belmont Stakes, has been euthanized at age 31 due to the infirmities of old age.