Horse Racing News

A tense wait ensued as the judge studied the photograph, with the verdict going to Kauto Star by a nose.

The Waukegan Police Department is looking for new homes for the four horses that carry its mounted patrol.

To hear Jay Sears tell it the excitement is tougher to contain with each passing day towards the December 5 Florida Super Night at The Isle Pompano Park.

With not enough horses entered in the winners over trot, Lively Moment scored her second consecutive harness racing victory against some of the better trotters on the grounds when she copped the featured $7500 non-winners of $800 per start trot at Monticello Raceway on Wednesday afternoon, November 18.

More than two years after expressing a formal interest in buying Remington Park, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation won preliminary approval Thursday for a 2010 racing and gaming license.

In the thoroughbred horse race known as the 2009-10 NHL season, more than a handful of competitors have come up lame by the quarter pole.

Harness racing meetings for 2010 begins at Meadowlands Racetrack in the first weekend of the New Year with 7 p.m. cards on Friday, January 1 and Saturday, January 2. The track will follow a Wednesday - Sunday racing schedule through March.

A disappointing fourth-place finish in last weekend's $265,000 American-National pace for 3-year-old males at Balmoral Park didn't deter If I Can Dream's owners from ponying up $30,000 to supplement him to Friday's $225,000 Windy City Pace at Maywood Park.

Those stories about Bobby Frankel being abrasive, grumpy, and ready to rip a jockey's head off? They're all true.

Undefeated Zenyatta and her owners, trainer and jockey will be honored with the Big Sport of Turfdom award from the Turf Publicists of America.

Champagne Eyes, a four-year-old stakes-winning Flatter filly, brought $95,000 to top Monday's session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

The California Horse Racing Board, as requested, approved the license application of Cal-Expo for 89 racing nights from December 26, 2009 through June 19, 2010.

Betfair Chase: Imperial Commander 9/1 Imperial Commander Profile N A Twiston-Davies Profile Click here to follow us on Twitter! Click here for more racing news Carl Llewellyn admits conditions will not be ideal for Imperial Commander when he makes his seasonal reappearance in the Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday.

The storied racing careers of two of harness racing's greatest pacers, Mister Big and Art Official, will come to a close on Saturday night, when they battle eight other top class pacers in the $200,000 American-National Stakes for older pacers.

A long and healthy life ended in a tragic and needless death says BC SPCA special constable Lynsay Bailey.

Old Friends, a racehorse retirement farm located near Georgetown, Ky., has opened its first satellite for retired Thoroughbreds.

Park will play host to its biggest night of the year on Friday as some of North America's top horses and drivers visit the half-mile oval for a quartet of stakes events headlined by the $225,000 Windy City Pace for 3-year-old colts.

Nina Carberry being led in on Garde Champetre. REPORT FROM CHELTENHAM : IT WAS not exactly breaking news to see the undisputed master of the cross-country races Enda Bolger saddle a one-two in the Glenfarclas-sponsored event at Cheltenham yesterday.

LONDON: Legendary Irish racehorse Sea The Stars was named horse of the year here on Tuesday at the Cartier Awards.

Zipping landed a history-making third straight win in the Sandown Classic after a masterful ride from top jockey Michael Rodd proved decisive in a two-horse battle with gallant mare Purple.