#US RACING: Todd Pletcher achieves 5,000th career win
While he was at Keeneland for Friday’s (Nov 6) first day of the 37th Breeders’ Cup World Championships, trainer Todd Pletcher earned the 5,000th victory of his career at Aqueduct when Repole Stable’s Microsecond captured the seventh race. “It’s such a great tribute to the whole staff, the whole team,” said Pletcher, who has sent out the […]
#US RACING: Essential Quality wins Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland – watch video replay
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Initially out of the picture, Essential Quality regrouped for a signature win that may set him up for a big 2021. Essential Quality took charge in the stretch to overtake 94-1 long shot Hot Rod Charlie and win Friday's US$2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by three-quarters of a length on the […]
#US RACING: COVID-19 brings Charles Town racing to a halt
Following a pair of positive COVID-19 tests emanating from its jockeys' room, Charles Town Races has cancelled its live racing cards through Saturday, November 14. As a result of the lost days, the track intends on applying to the West Virginia Racing Commission for additional live days that would be held on Nov. 25 as […]
#US RACING: In an abnormal year, Breeders' Cup offers a bit of normalcy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — This year's Triple Crown slate unfolded over 3½ months instead of six weeks and shuffled the marquee Kentucky Derby from its traditional first Saturday in May to Labor Day weekend — as the middle jewel. Numerous tracks cancelled meets and some returned with abbreviated schedules. Many cards went off without the […]
#US RACING: Horse racing seeking to implement variety of safety reforms
A movement is underway in horse racing to clean up the sport by enacting uniform safety standards that everyone in the industry would have to abide by. An integrity and safety bill is being reviewed by the Senate that could put national standards in place by the start of 2022. In the meantime, different states […]
#AUSTRALIAN RACING: Watch the thrilling victory of Twilight Payment in the 2020 Melbourne Cup
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#AUSTRALIAN RACING: Tragedy as English Derby winner put down at Melbourne Cup
MELBOURNE, Australia - English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck was euthanised Tuesday (November 3) after breaking down during the Melbourne Cup, the seventh horse since 2013 to die at the race. The five-year-old Irish stallion pulled up lame on the home straight with star jockey Hugh Bowman, who rode super-mare Winx, dismounting uninjured and a […]
#AUSTRALIAN RACING: Twilight Payment wins Melbourne Cup for Joseph O’Brien marred by tragedy
MELBOURNE, Australia - Irish raider Twilight Payment won the coveted Aus$8.0 million (US$5.5 million) Melbourne Cup today (November 3) in a race run without spectators and marred by the death of English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck. With Jye McNeil in the saddle, the eight-year-old gelding held off a charging Tiger Moth and Prince of […]
#US RACING BREEDERS’ CUP: A look at the post positions and jockeys assigned in the Breeders’ Cup Classic
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Below are the fields and odds for the Breeders' Cup Classic, the last of nine races on Saturday, November 7 at the Keeneland racetrack. US$6 million Classic – 1 1/4 miles – Saturday, 5:13 p.m. ET Classic Post Horse Jockey Odds 1 Tacitus Jose Ortiz 20-1 2 Tiz the Law Manny Franco […]
#US RACING: The Aidan O'Brien Family & The Breeders' Cup - watch video
