Fritz Widaman has been named Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sponsorships, the Maryland Jockey Club announced Friday. Previously a key executive at the National Thoroughbred Racing Association ...

Colin and Melba Bryce's Laundry Cottage Stud is home to 15 broodmares and, though the Hertfordshire operation could certainly be described as boutique, its paddocks have witnessed the formative years ...

Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar's 2023 G2 Norfolk Stakes hero and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint runner-up Valiant Force (Malibu Moon–Vigui's Heart, by Quality Road) broke a seven-race winless ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands's Department of Sports, Parks, & Recreation Department has formally closed the Clinton E. Phipps Racetrack on the island of St. Thomas until further notice after at least seven ...

In this new series for 2025, we'll take a monthly look at trends and notable items from the nation's graded races and present them in quick, easy-to-digest bullet points. The month of January saw 16 ...

Coolmore stallion The Antarctic (Ire) sired his first reported foal last weekend. The Sepoy (Aus) mare Ibiza (GB) foaled a bay filly at Alne Park Stud. Ibiza is out of G2 Park Hill Stakes heroine Hi ...

I recently finished reading a book called “The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, The World's Greatest Racehorse” by Lawrence Scanlon. Figuring to maybe get a new tidbit or two about ...

Tim Husbands is to leave his position as CEO of Leopardstown Racecourse in April 2025 after five years in the role. Husbands joined Leopardstown as CEO in January 2020, having previously worked as CEO ...

Headlined by the 150th running of the GI Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course will play host to 16 stakes, eight graded, worth $4.3-million in purses Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, it was announced ...

Thomas Huet will join Arqana's bloodstock team from 17. Based at Saint-Cloud, he will be in charge of the prospection and nominations of horses-in-training for the sales, as well as the coordination ...

Jockey Michael O'Sullivan is in intensive care following a fall at Thurles on Thursday. O'Sullivan was riding Wee Charlie for Gerard O'Leary and was one of three fallers at the last in the two-mile ...

Officiated by 1/ST Racing under a new deal which was struck last year with the Maryland Racetrack Operating Authority, this year's 150th running of the GI Preakness Stakes is featured alongside 15 ...