A place in the Kentucky Derby starting gate is a coveted dream. It is also one of the hardest places in racing to get into, despite a larger gate, literally, than other prestigious American races.

Jockey Julien Leparoux, a two-time Eclipse Award winner in the 2000s, is moving from Kentucky to California in early July in advance of the Del Mar summer meeting.

It's a major change on the spring schedule: The Belmont Stakes will be contested Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, at a distance of 1 1/4 miles. The massive renovation of Belmont Park necessitates the ...

Fixed-odds betting on horse racing in the U.S. is set to finally become a reality with the Saturday opening of Monmouth Park in New Jersey, but the track plans to take baby steps as it works out the ...

In five starts this year, the filly Slay the Day and Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez have become a productive team.

Book'em Danno and Bentornato are seeking to firm up their places at the top of the nation's sprint division in Saturday's Grade 3 True North Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on dirt at Saratoga.

Just Beat the Odds did his preparations at Tampa this winter before he finished a terrific second, three-quarters of a length behind Imagination in the $2 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint.

Friday’s first race at Santa Anita was abandoned on the backstretch after one of the runners crashed through a temporary inner rail early in a turf race at 1 1/8 miles, damaging the rail.

Commandment seems to be the forgotten horse of this year's Triple Crown heading into Saturday's $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. Despite being a multiple graded stakes winner and one of just ...

Total commingled handle on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks in May dropped 4 percent compared to the same month last year, but the number of races held dropped at a larger rate, according to ...

White Abarrio has a spring race objective of the Grade 2, $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said Monday. The 1 1/8-mile fixture will be run April 18.

Eric Guillot, a multiple Grade 1-winning trainer whose successes on the track were often overshadowed by his behavior off of it, died on Thursday at a rehabilitation facility in Arkansas.