The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has suspended the probationary accreditation status of a drug-testing lab operated by the Ohio Department of Agriculture for a minimum of six months, HIWU ...

The chairman of the Texas Racing Commission said Wednesday that a response to a cease-and-desist order the commission recently sent to Churchill Downs Inc. regarding the entry of the company’s account ...

The Grade 3, $1 million Southwest Stakes on Friday at Oaklawn Park could have a completely different pace scenario than the track's first Kentucky Derby points race of the season, the Smarty Jones.

Veteran jockey Florent Geroux is moving to California.

For 21 consecutive years there wasn't a Kentucky Derby run in which Todd Pletcher didn't have a starter. Until 2025. As the road to the 2026 Kentucky Derby ratchets up, Pletcher looks to start a new ...

Surfin' U. S. A., a 3-year-old filly owned by the estate of the late racing handicapper and commentator Jeff Siegel and longtime Los Angeles Times sportswriter Eric Sondheimer, won a maiden race at 6 ...

Westwood’s prevalent style as a pacesetter worked in a stakes for the first time in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes for older horses, a race that changed considerably on race morning at Santa ...

The 4-year-old colt Magnitude won’t travel for the February 14 Saudi Cup after contracting an illness. Trainer Steve Asmussen said Sunday morning that Magnitude had spiked a fever and would not ship ...

Mystik Dan, who won the Southwest Stakes in 2024 before going on to capture the Kentucky Derby, enters stud this year and will have the support of mares owned by his trainer, Kenny McPeek, and some of ...

Will Take It rallied up the rail for a head win over Woodcourt in the $150,000 Fifth Season, the first stakes race of the postponed classic meet that opened Thursday at Oaklawn Park.

Widespread winter-related cancellations at tracks throughout the Midwest and Northeast led to a 13.6 percent decline in the number of races at Thoroughbred tracks and a 6.1 percent drop in handle in ...

Golden Tempo, 2-2 to start his career and a last-to-first winner of the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 17, will face seven rivals Feb. 14 in the Risen Star Stakes.