Maiden King

Horse racing could use more fans. What it needs first is more horses.

Linked by history more than recent on-field meetings, the teams will take the best records in baseball into their weekend series in Los Angeles.

A former star at Louisville's Moore Traditional School, J.J. Weaver is now working for playing time in Lexington with Kentucky football.        

Former Kentucky football standout Josh Allen was a force to be reckoned with in a preseason NFL game Thursday for the Jacksonville Jaguars.        

Season premiere of Prep Rally, the Courier Journal's new high school football show, visits St. Xavier before the big game vs DeSales .        

Hello All, When you export a race to Excel what do the Odds# and Tx1# number mean?

DMR Full Card 8/21/19: r1: 4-2-9, LS 7: baby race, all trying turf and/or route for first time, early pace will be fast r2: 2-3-5, likely to be won by top 2-3 favorites, 2 and 3 go out early, 5 closes r3: 1-8-6, LS 7: all but the 1 are FTS in baby race r4: 6-5-7, LS 8: early pace...

Here are my horse-by-horse thoughts on all 10 stakes races at Belmont Saturday...

A tribute in memory of legendary writer Bill Nack.

This is just a little post to let people know that all my tournament content will now be appearing in a new place.

In the final episode of the DRF Players’ Podcast (the TBD Players’ Podcast will commence in another place next week), PTF and JK host the first ever Podcast Holiday Quiz. Joined by special guests Matt Scarlata, Drew Coatney, and Gene Menez, they review some of the sometimes sublime but always ridiculous history of the show.

Special guest Richard Migliore joins Peter Thomas Fornatale to talk about his life in racing. Topics include what horsemen and horseplayers can learn from each other, and how today's riding culture is different from when Migliore was riding. Plus, what does a dieting jockey eat for dessert?

Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Monday 8/26 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Monday 8/26 card at Yonkers Raceway.

Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 8/25 card at Hawthorne Harness.

Three-time stakes winner Bulletin will return to racing for the first time since April in the $100,000 Better Talk Now Stakes Aug. 25 on the inner turf at Saratoga Race Course.  

Other than the Pat O'Brien (G2) at Del Mar and the Play the King (G2) at Woodbine Racetrack, all the graded stakes in North America Aug. 24 take place at Saratoga Race Course, climaxed by the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers (G1) for 3-year-olds.

Battaash came and he conquered, producing a sensational display in the Aug. 23 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) that lowered the track record set by Dayjur in the same group 1 showpiece 29 years earlier.

SANTA ANITA TO UNVEIL NEW AREAS, INCLUDING TRACKSIDE SEATING & DINING, IN ADVANCE OF BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS NOV. 1 & 2  SANTA ANITA’S 23-DAY AUTUMN MEET TO OPEN FRIDAY, SEPT. 27   ARCADIA, Calif. (Aug. 14, 2019)–Santa Anita Park, which will play host to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for a record 10th time on Nov. […] The post SANTA […]

THE STRONACH GROUP APPOINTS CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER AIDAN BUTLER ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CALIFORNIA RACING OPERATIONS An expert in technology, horseracing and gaming, Butler will build on reforms at Santa Anita Park, Golden Gate Fields and throughout California ARCADIA, CA – Continuing its push to reform and modernize horseracing, The Stronach Group toda […]

Fighting Mad toyed with her competition early in the one-mile Torrey Pines S. (G3) before drawing away...

Kingly topped off a terrific weekend for the Bob Baffert barn with a heart-pounding neck victory in the $150,000 La Jolla S. (G3)...

SANTA ANITA TO UNVEIL NEW AREAS, INCLUDING TRACKSIDE SEATING & DINING, IN ADVANCE OF BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS NOV. 1 & 2  SANTA ANITA’S 23-DAY AUTUMN MEET TO OPEN FRIDAY, SEPT. 27   ARCADIA, Calif. (Aug. 14, 2019)–Santa Anita Park, which will play host to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for a record 10th time on Nov. […] The post SANTA […]

THE STRONACH GROUP APPOINTS CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER AIDAN BUTLER ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CALIFORNIA RACING OPERATIONS An expert in technology, horseracing and gaming, Butler will build on reforms at Santa Anita Park, Golden Gate Fields and throughout California ARCADIA, CA – Continuing its push to reform and modernize horseracing, The Stronach Group toda […]