Ryan Moore is back. Britain's dominant big-race rider has been off the track since suffering a stress fracture to his right femur in August, but he is due to return at Lingfield Dec. 3 having been declared for five rides on the eight-race card.
Lee Mottershead was crowned racing writer of the year for the fourth time after receiving the Alastair Down trophy at the United Kingdom-based Horserace Writers and Photographers Association Derby Awards Dec. 1.
The first edition of the Emirates Racing Authority Online Sale, hosted by Tattersalls Online, recorded a remarkable clearance rate of 87% with 13 of the 15 lots exchanging hands, for a total of AED200,900.
Racecourse Media Group has been awarded a further three-year contract by Dubai Racing Club to provide production and distribution services at Meydan Racecourse, the home of the $30.5 million Dubai World Cup day.
California-bred Unrivaled Time proved his class in the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3T) Nov. 30 at Del Mar, winning the one-mile race by 3/4 lengths, and surviving a stewards inquiry.
At the end of wagering in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2, Spendthrift Farm's Ted Noffey and Further Ado closed as the top two individual betting choices.
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. has quickly made a mark on the Kentucky horse racing circuit since shifting his tack from New York. The 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico secured his first Churchill Downs leading rider title with 46 wins through the Fall Meet.
One day after her half brother, Salamis, won the Hollywood Derby (G1T), Segesta became a grade 1 winner herself when taking the $302,000 Matriarch Stakes (G1T) at Del Mar Nov. 29.
With a victory in the Cardinal Stakes at Churchill Downs Nov. 27, Proctor Street became the latest in a successful family line that dates back to owner/breeder Patricia Moseley's first horse: the multiple stakes winner Drumtop.
Every major breeder from around the globe will have eyes on individuals in this catalog as representative of the most historic and coveted bloodlines that money can buy. Last year, record trade saw ten mares tipping past the 1,000,000gns mark.
Taylor Made Sales consigns Porta Fortuna at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She highlights Taylor Made's first time back in Newmarket since 2021.
The New York Racing Association was forced to cancel the final eight races of the nine-race card Nov. 30 at Aqueduct Racetrack due to a protest lodged by the jockeys resulting in their refusal to ride.
Taylor Made Sales consigns Porta Fortuna at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. She highlights Taylor Made's first time back in Newmarket since 2021.
Officials from Jamaica's Mouttet Mile asked jockey Javier Castellano to participate in the Caribbean's largest purse race in 2023 and 2024. But other obligations compelled Castellano to decline their overtures. This year, he couldn't say no.
Libertad produced the biggest performance of his career and one of the most dramatic finishes of The Pinnacles when the 5-year-old entire lunged late to deny Overpass the Winterbottom Stakes.
The world's top-rated horse, Calandagan, was all out to defeat Japan's best, Masquerade Ball, by a head at the end of the 1 1/2 miles of the Japan Cup (G1) Nov. 30 at Tokyo Racecourse.
Bella Ballerina, a half sister to 2023 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Pretty Mischievous, is on the Oaks trail herself after a win in the $397,375 Golden Rod Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs Nov. 29.
A dawdling pace in the $301,500 Hollywood Derby (G1T) Nov. 29 at Del Mar turned the race into a test of late acceleration, and Salamis passed with flying colors.
Joining Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Ted Noffey, Further Ado gives Spendthrift Farm two aces heading toward the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1). Further Ado captured the Nov. 29 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs
The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Florida Sire Stakes series wrapped up Nov. 29 at Gulfstream Park with a pair of homebreds taking top honors in the two $300,000 stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-olds.
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