According to a recent item by Matt Hegarty in the Daily Racing Form, the curious case of Pocahontas Stakes winner Sign raised more questions than it answered after an appeal held at the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission earlier this week. … Continue reading →

Flat Out will attempt to continue his reign over Belmont Park when he faces eight competitors, including seven graded stakes winners, on Monday in the 121st running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap for 3-year-olds and up. The Met … Continue reading →

A recently-released study from Middlesex University London indicates that around half of the British public believes that of the popular sports in that region, soccer, horse racing, and cycling have been most negatively impacted by cheating scandals. The Godolphin steroid … Continue reading →

The Board of Directors of the Retired Racehorse Training Project announced today its selection of the 26 horse trainers who will participate in the RRTP Thoroughbred Makeover. Each trainer will chronicle online the training of a Thoroughbred that has raced … Continue reading →

The field for the 145th Belmont Stakes got a little bit bigger with the news that the Dominick Schettino-trained Always in a Tiz is now targeting the race. The son of Tiznow most recently was ninth in the G1 Wood … Continue reading →

Ascot is delighted to announce that Longines, providers of race times at the racecourse since 2007, today becomes an official partner of the racecourse, through 2017. The Swiss watchmaker will continue to be official timekeeper at Ascot, but now will … Continue reading →

Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan this year for 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic (Grade I) winner Fort Larned, but trainer Ian Wilkes will look for things to turn around beginning with the $500,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) at Churchill … Continue reading →

Santa Anita Derby winner Goldencents will be pointed for the G1 King’s Bishop Stakes at Saratoga Aug. 25. Trainer Doug O’Neill told the Daily Racing Form that the son of Into Mischief would unlikely race around two turns this summer. … Continue reading →

The veterinarian who injected a Jane Cibelli-trained horse on the day it was to race at Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 27 has been suspended 90 days as a result of a stipulated agreement with the state of Florida’s Division … Continue reading →

Graded stakes winner Autism Awareness, winner of the G3 El Camino Real Derby in 2008, broke down in an allowance optional claiming race at Santa Anita Park April 14 and had to be euthanized, according to a report by the … Continue reading →