Keeneland's April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale will begin at 6:30 p.m. April 26, closing day of the spring meet. Click for the online catalog or the full-sale form figures.
For this month's Beyond the Headlines feature, we take a look into how the Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs operates including the frontrunners program which provides children with english learning services, homework help, and...
In a move that could serve as a model for other states, Kentucky lawmakers have passed legislation that will commit up to $250,000 a year to accredited aftercare of racehorses.
As the sporting world turns its attention to the Kentucky Derby (G1), a focus that will include questions about racing's safety record, industry efforts to ensure the well-being of competitors and the integrity of racing started months ago.
Ben Curtis couldn't have imagined securing a mount in the Kentucky Derby (G1) just six months after moving his tack to the United States, but the impossible took a step toward reality after Honor Marie finished second in the Louisiana...
Todd Pletcher discusses champion 2-year-old male Fierceness' first day on the Churchill Downs track as he prepares for the Kentucky Derby (G1), owner Mike Repole, and his Kentucky Oaks (G1) hopefuls.
Ireland native Ben Curtis only started riding in the U.S. in November 2023, but has already managed to secure a Kentucky Derby (G1) mount aboard Honor Marie.
Expectations are positive for the April 24 Goffs Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale, which saw all manner of records broken in 2023, with new high marks set across the aggregate, average and median figures.
The Churchill Downs track is getting busier and busier by the day, but all eyes were trained on one specific horse the morning of April 23 as Fierceness, the likely favorite for the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1), took his first spin around...
Granpollo Stable's Grand Mo the First breezes six furlongs at Gulfstream Park in preparation for a start in the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs.
This installment features Kerry and Alan Ribble. They are majority owners of Honor Marie, who secured a Kentucky Derby berth when he ran second in the Louisiana Derby (G2) March 23 at Fair Grounds.
For the 20 Thoroughbreds expected to compete in 2024 is one of the most important moments of their lives, and racing luck can make or break their Derby run from the start. Some of that luck comes from the luck of the post-position draw.
Tom Rooney, president and CEO of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, discusses its new Safety Runs First campaign and how the NTRA took inspiration from the National Football League.
This year's event at New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program's facility at Mereworth Farm is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended.
If all the best horses miss the Classic trials the beginning of the season is heading the same way as the declining Craven The first cuckoo, daffodils in full bloom and the Craven meeting at Newmarket. For racing fans, it was always hard...
The 18-1 shot edges Surrey Quest in photo finish at Ayr Willie Mullins is all but certain to win first UK jump trainers’ title It was perhaps for the best that Willie Mullins did not make it to the top of Ayr’s grandstand in time to see...
An Irish-trained horse has not won one of the most coveted prizes in UK jumps racing since Queen Victoria was on the throne In the spring of 1869, Queen Victoria was approaching the halfway mark of what would eventually be a 64-year...
Richard Hannon’s horse romps home yet trainer remains coy Stablemate Rosallion labelled ‘a horse with an awful lot of speed’ There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a three-and-a-half length success in the Craven Stakes over the...
Trainer optimistic about improved crop of three-year-olds Nell Gwyn Stakes runner-up still on course for 1,000 Guineas He had just seen his filly Dance Sequence, the third-favourite for the 1,000 Guineas, beaten in her Classic trial by...
The race’s ability to adapt to changing attitudes over the course of nearly 200 years has been one of the secrets of its survival For the first time in a while – since April 2018, in fact – Grand National day at Aintree on Saturday was,...
Auctioneer targets social media-obsessed youngsters with prospect of entering the parade ring at Royal Ascot Henry Beeby has an enticing pitch for young super-rich tiktokkers and instagrammers. “Come to Kensington Gardens on the Monday,...
Trainer adds I Am Maximus’s success at Aintree to his Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle wins at Cheltenham this season A gentlemanly nod of the head. An appreciative tip of the cap. That is the way Willie Mullins likes to celebrate his major...
Joint-favourite streaks clear after the last fence Last year’s winner Corach Rambler unseats rider at the first A Grand National that was in the balance until after the final fence was decided by an irresistible burst of finishing...
Favourite won an incredible race at Aintree for Willie Mullins Race report | Tom Jenkins’s best images from Aintree And they’re off … Johnson’s Blue leads in the early stages with two laps to go! … Classic Concorde is now challenging the...
Winners, losers, racegoers and horses are all in evidence as Guardian and Observer photographer Tom Jenkins captures the essence of Aintree Continue reading...
Welsh trainer Christian Williams, whose horse Kitty’s Light runs in Saturday's Grand National, talks about the treatment his young daughter Betsy is receiving for leukaemia.
Sport’s leaders fighting back on welfare and prize money fronts after falls in crowds put squeeze on before racing’s biggest day If anyone at Aintree needed a reminder of the oscillating exhilarations and perils of jump racing, it came...
Selection has a near-perfect profile for the biggest betting race of the year in terms of his age, talent, stamina and form to date The more pessimistic forecasts for rainfall at Aintree this week failed to materialise but the going for...
Cameron Sword set to realise dream in racing with horse he part-owns on verge of history after last year’s ‘people’s race’ win For good or ill, Aintree’s finger of fate has singled out an abundance of horses and humans since a horse...