The third and final leg of Oaklawn Park’s 3-year-old Kentucky Derby prep series is the Arkansas Derby, which is run at a distance of 1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs). The race has been contested annually ...

It’s a racing highlight that equestrians and sporting art enthusiasts look forward to every year. Keeneland Association and Cross Gate Gallery continue their collaboration by offering the 13th annual ...

Whether endowing an entrepreneurship competition he founded at his alma mater, Skidmore College, supporting disabled jockeys, or donating to Thoroughbred aftercare, Ken Freirich believes in leading by ...

Bob Ehalt has been an avid fan of Thoroughbred racing since that day in June of 1971 when he and his father walked from their Queens Village, N.Y., home to Belmont Park to see Canonero II fall short ...

Another Breeders’ Cup is in the books, but the Thoroughbred calendar never really lets down and this upcoming week is highlighted by a quick turnaround as NYRA and FOX Sports bring North Americans ...

Tom Pedulla offers 10 takeaways from the 42nd edition of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which offered 14 races worth more than $34 million in purses and awards when it was held Oct. 31 and Nov ...

Fresh off of the 2025 Breeders’ Cup, we’ve got another big day of racing coming up on Monday, Nov. 3. This time around, we’ll head to Australia for “the race that stops a nation.” It’s the Lexus ...

The fact that a European-based horse won the $5 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf Nov. 1 at Del Mar was hardly a surprise. The shock was which Euro reached the wire first. The prime candidates to ...

Having won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets, and DraftKings Travers Stakes, Sovereignty is the front-runner to earn the most coveted prize in ...

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said Oct. 29 that Sovereignty, the leading contender for Horse of the Year, will not run in the Nov. 1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic due to a fever. The Grade 1 ...

Balantina Dazzles for Donnacha in Juvenile Fillies Turf The Friday morning scratch of Aidan O’Brien-trained Precise, the heavy 6-5 morning-line favorite, left the $1 million John Deere Breeders’ Cup ...

What do you do with a champion filly who won her title for her performances on turf at age 2? Why, you run her on dirt, too, of course, and in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff, the World ...