Maiden King

The player-captain set the tone on Sunday by winning the team’s first singles matchup and then guiding the United States team to a come-from-behind victory that left Woods in tears.

In perhaps his final start at MetLife Stadium, Eli Manning ended the Giants’ nine-game losing streak by staving off the Miami Dolphins.

UK missed a potential buzzer-beater, and Louisville's senior class finished their career 4-0 against the Wildcats.        

Blake Givens made a 26-yard field goal with no time left at Greater Louisville Football Coaches Association East-West Senior All-Star Football Game.        

Kentucky basketball moved to 2-0 on the season against Power 5 conference foes with a victory against Georgia Tech.        

Thinking of going after the carryover today. In the 6th RDSS has two horses listed as FT's, 2 and 6. They are 5 and 6 years old being entered as FT's in a non maiden race as the favourites? Something seems off. Pook

Richie just hit the p6 at GP for 4gs. Had to win a photo and withstand an objection. I was on the phone with him watching the replay sweating it out with him. Tim

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?

The popular Pumpkin Rumble won the Grade 3 Valedictory for the second year in a row at Woodbine on Sunday, giving the retiring Eurico Da Silva an appropriate send-off in his final stakes mount.

A Freud of Mama is by Freud out of a dam that had won more than $240,000 exclusively on dirt, so it wasn’t a surprise to trainer Mike Maker that she could be successful on dirt.

He Looks Hot, who survived three colic surgeries in 2015 and last year, overcame a stumble at the start to win the most prestigious race of his career in Saturday’s $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos.

Gestüt Fährhof in Germany has reported the death of its transatlantic three-time group/grade 1 winner Sabiango at the age of 21.

Serve the King was bought for 260,000 guineas two years ago

William Butler's homebred A Freud of Mama took no issue with a muddy track in her dirt debut. The 2-year-old Freud filly, off at 23-1, ran on late to capture her stakes win in the $518,250 New York Stallion Series Fifth Avenue Division.

AHEAD OF 83RD SEASON, SANTA ANITA PARK DEBUTS ANIMAL-WELFARE TECHNOLOGY NEVER BEFORE USED AT ANY RACETRACK IN THE COUNTRY PET Scanner Will Aid in Detection of Pre-Existing Conditions in Racehorses Arcadia, CA — As Santa Anita Park prepares for its 83rd season, the racetrack today debuted animal-welfare technology that goes far and beyond anything ever seen a […]

AHEAD OF OPENING DAY FOR SANTA ANITA’S 83RD SEASON, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN TECHNOLOGY INSTALLED TO ASSIST IN THE HEALTHCARE OF EQUINE ATHLETES ARCADIA, CA – Santa Anita Park will open for its 83rd Season on December 26th. This week, the standing PET Scan machine was installed which will assist in the identification of preexisting conditions in the fetlock, the [… […]

Bast and Donna Veloce were 1-2 the entire way in the $300,000 Starlet (G1) Saturday at Los Alamitos, with Bast getting the best of her foe by a half-length...

Thousand Words was headed in deep stretch by Anneau d'Or, but fought back gallantly to best his foe by a neck in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2)...

AHEAD OF 83RD SEASON, SANTA ANITA PARK DEBUTS ANIMAL-WELFARE TECHNOLOGY NEVER BEFORE USED AT ANY RACETRACK IN THE COUNTRY PET Scanner Will Aid in Detection of Pre-Existing Conditions in Racehorses Arcadia, CA — As Santa Anita Park prepares for its 83rd season, the racetrack today debuted animal-welfare technology that goes far and beyond anything ever seen a […]

AHEAD OF OPENING DAY FOR SANTA ANITA’S 83RD SEASON, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN TECHNOLOGY INSTALLED TO ASSIST IN THE HEALTHCARE OF EQUINE ATHLETES ARCADIA, CA – Santa Anita Park will open for its 83rd Season on December 26th. This week, the standing PET Scan machine was installed which will assist in the identification of preexisting conditions in the fetlock, the [… […]