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By Tim Sullivan Kentucky Lantern Beyond Kentucky’s borders, horse racing is a sport in steep decline. Within the Commonwealth ...
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced Monday the debut of “The Bel-Mint Stakes,” a tribute version of Mint ...
Kentucky Downs may put on an all-turf meet, but that doesn’t mean its horses are turf only. Three contenders for the May 3 ...
The sparkling new Netflix series, “Race for the Crown,” was never intended to be a documentary of Thoroughbred racing. We ...
Rival trainers and horse racing insiders talk about what the return of Bob Baffert means for the 2025 Kentucky Derby.
Kentucky Downs may put on an all-turf meet, but that doesn’t mean its horses are all turf. Three contenders for the May 3 ...
The top-priced horse sold at public auction entered in the Kentucky Derby (G1) is Sandman, winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1).
Roderick Wachman is known for scouting out high-profile winners, and David Egan’s family farm produced the world’s all-time ...
He was a marsh tacky horse from the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where his feral forebears had survived for centuries against the longest of odds after being left behind by Spanish explorers. The ...
Masmak, a four-time winner over the winter at Aqueduct where he was third in the Excelsior (L) on April 5, sold for $375,000 ...
Bob Baffert has won the Kentucky Derby six times, but he could do something that even he’s never accomplished: Win from the ...