Preakness Stakes News

The 1 1/8-mile Remsen Stakes serves as a formidable two-turn test late in the season for promising two-year-olds, and on Saturday at Aqueduct Buddy's Saint passed with flying colors.

The debt crisis in Dubai was being closely monitored Friday by buyers and sellers of high-end racehorses, but there was no immediate indication Dubai's ruler would scale back his enormous financial ties to the industry in the United States and elsewhere.

Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:13 a.m. Ira "Babe" Hanford wasn't supposed to amount to much in the 1936 Kentucky Derby.

Winning jockey Calvin Borel will be part of a luncheon Monday to raise money for Neighborhood House, a nonprofit center that serves residents of the Portland neighborhood.

Next year about this time, two Laurel County natives will appear on the big screen in a Walt Disney movie.

On Saturday, legendary jockey Pat Day, who won the 1992 Kentucky Derby, the 1994, '95 and '96 Preakness Stakes, and the 1994 Belmont Stakes, will be at the Churchill Downs Store from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. signing the glasses from each of those races.

Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who won the 2003 Belmont Stakes with Empire Maker, has died after a long bout with cancer.

Two years before the Kentucky Derby would appear, Pimlico was busy introducing its new three-year-old stakes race, the Preakness, in the Spring of 1873.

Magna Entertainment Corp., the parent company of Laurel Park race track, is moving forward with its auction of the track without a lead bid in place.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A mare from the family of top European horse Sea The Stars brought $1 million Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Let the Horse of the Year debate begin. Saturday was a day to savor a brilliant performance by Zenyatta, who defeated 11 males with her explosive finishing speed to win a thrilling edition of the Breeders' Cup Classic .

The much anticipated race between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta? Well, it's on, but only on paper.

Zenyatta beat the boys in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, running her record to 14-0 in the most impressive effort of her career.

In 2007, Kentucky racing officials found cobra venom, a powerful painkiller, in the barn of Patrick Biancone, a horse trainer with prestigious victories from Hong Kong to France.

She's a mare set to race against a dozen of the world's most daunting male horses for the first time in her career, but Zenyatta seems to be the one inspiring fear.

Potential buyers submitted proposals Monday as the first step in the January auction of Laurel Park, where horses are being readied for a race, and Pimlico Race Course.

Want to meet the most famous racehorse of the year? Need a unique gift for the horse lover who has everything? Kendall-Jackson, Santa Rosa, California, is offering a private supervised visit with Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Preakness Stakes winner.

Zenyatta, winning at Del Mar in August, is pre-entered in the Classic and Ladies' Classic.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro will be honored at the site of his greatest triumph a week before this year's Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs.

After nearly 30 years in the racing business, trainer Larry Jones became an overnight sensation in 2007 with Kentucky Derby contender Hard Spun.