The winner of next year’s National Horseplayers Championship will be guaranteed a purse of $1 million, approximately 25 percent higher than recent first-place awards.

<p>DRF WEEKEND: There are no obvious traces left of Brooklyn’s grand horse racing past, but from the late-1800's to 1910, the tracks at Gravesend, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay made the city ...

Dale Romans will be hard on the campaign trail this spring trying to win a Senate seat for the state of Kentucky. He’s also hoping he might be on the Kentucky Derby trail at the same time, a dream ...

Few people make it through life without some form of struggle. For some those moments can be few and far between while others wrestle with their vices so often that they spill over to impact their ...

Golden Tempo, Renegade, and Chief Wallabee – the first-, second-, and fourth-place finishers from the Derby – are considered definite for the Belmont, which, for the third straight year, will be held ...

Irad Ortiz Jr. escaped serious injury from an incident shortly after the start of Sunday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga, but he took off his mounts on Monday, the final day of the Saratoga ...

The Florida House Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would allow Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach and Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar to decouple their racing and gambling licenses.

The last story, an obituary if you will, is something no one wants to write about a racetrack. But sadly, the end will finally come to Pompano Park in a few short weeks, as the realization that the ...

Santa Anita canceled racing on Saturday because of a forecast of a significant rainstorm through the day, according to a statement released early Saturday morning.

Six Speed, the UAE Derby runner-up who finished 13th after setting the pace in the Kentucky Derby, is now with trainer George Weaver.

The Arkansas Racing Commission on Thursday unanimously approved Oaklawn Park's racing calendar for next season. In changes, the meet will mostly be comprised of three-day race weeks instead of last ...

Bob Baffert has a bunch of talented horses who have posted May workouts at Churchill Downs. It's just that Baffert either doesn't yet know or isn't willing to publicly state where many of them will ...