While people will be saying “Happy New Year!” on Thursday, all Thoroughbreds will be celebrating their birthdays. Horses that were 2 at the start of the week will turn 3 on Thursday and that’s when ...

Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple ...

Horse racing fans get to unwrap one final Christmas gift every year when California racing celebrates opening day at Santa Anita Park. The post-holiday kickoff marks the start of the winter-spring ...

Express Kid, a 2-year-old California-bred colt who was purchased for only $2,000 as a yearling, joined a growing group of prospects the road to the 2026 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve ...

Steve Asmussen has enjoyed strong success in the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds, which will be contested for the fifth time on Saturday. The Hall of Fame trainer has won two of the first ...

A final chance to travel around two turns as a 2-year-old in a Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve qualifying race awaits a field of 12 in Saturday’s Remington Springboard Mile. The two-turn ...

America’s Best Racing’s ninth season of “Big-Race Showdown” came right down to the wire like any great horse race.

The Japan Cup is held on turf at a distance of 2,400 meters, or about 1 ½ miles. It boasts a purse comparable to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, with about 1.09 billion yen equaling about $7.2 million. The ...

Every year over Thanksgiving weekend, several prominent tracks around North America pull out the stops in presenting high-quality Thoroughbred racing, including Churchill Downs and Del Mar. Those two ...

The Gulfstream Park Championship Meet will bring together the best trainers, jockeys, grass horses, and stakes action that horseplayers can find at this time of year. It is a must-see meet for ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. & HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 13, 2025) – The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes will for the first time be included in the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re ...

Electric, bursting at the seams, remarkable, and fast and furious are just a sprinkling of the vivid descriptions for Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale printed over the years in the pages of BloodHorse ...