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• Zero Put Downs Due to Horse Racing Accidents

  Complicated words such as euthanasia do little to take away the consummate and heart-rending tragedy of watching an injured animal put down after a sudden horse racing accident. Such adverse ...

• Fighting Spirit of Lough Derg

  When it comes to jaw-dropping good looks, near perfect confirmation and champion genes, Lough Derg was not blessed with any of them. Yet somehow, something in him attracted owner William Frewen ...

• Jumps Racing Season Action

  The Haydock Park Racecourse is located in Merseyside, England and is the venue for numerous flat horse racing events, as well as National Hunt racing. They offer spectators great facilities and ...

• Santa Anita Park Ready for Action

  The new Pro-Ride synthetic surface at Santa Anita Park is now two weeks old and it has been undergoing rigorous testing. Racing events at the track started yesterday and there is a spectacular ...

• New Technology Enables Horse Scan Breakthrough

  It seems that new technology has potentially revolutionized the way that respiratory diseases are diagnosed in race horses. New equipment developed and currently in use in Scotland allows vets ...

• Hollywood Park Closes After 75 Years of Racing

  Sunday's attendance at Betfair Hollywood Park exceeded 13,000 as horseracing fans gathered to enjoy the track's final day of racing. Hollywood Park has been operating for 75 years and has hosted ...

• Ismael Valenzuela Honored

  Ismael Valenzuela is one of the legendary jockeys in the horse racing industry, as he has ridden many championship horses and retired after winning 2 545 racing events. During this successful ...

• 2008 Hall of Fame Inductees

  On the 4th of August 2008, at Saratoga Springs in New York, six new names will be added to distinguished list of people and horses who have made it into the National Museum of Racing Hall of ...

• Uncle Mo Retires from Racing

  Sired by Indian Charlie out of Playa Maya, Uncle Mo was foaled in Kentucky on 10 March 2008, going on to compete undefeated in his two-year-old season in 2010. This spirited American champion ...

• TVG and Horseracing TV making history

  Make sure that your Television set has TVG and Horseracing TV access! These networks have come up with the brilliant idea of covering the forthcoming sale of two year olds at Lexington, which ...

• Royal Ascot Heads for the Finish Line

  The 2012 Royal Ascot got off to a great start on Tuesday, with Frankel crossing the finish line 11-lengths ahead of the rest of the contenders in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes. Heralded as his ...

• Trainer to Keep an Eye On

  Many people in the horse racing industry are either born into the life, or know from a young age that horse racing is the direction they want their lives to move in. For some, life begins on a ...