Blog

• On the Road to the Eclipse

  On Saturday, 21 August 2010, the Alabama Stakes got underway at the Saratoga Racecourse. With $500 000 as prize money, the best athletes descended on the racecourse to participate in this ...

• Zenyatta Still the People’s Champion

  The Breeders' Cup Classic was the race of the day on Saturday, 13 November 2010, and thousands of fans made their way into the Churchill Downs grounds to watch the unbeaten Zenyatta take on her ...

• Breeders’ Cup Drug Testing

  While Santa Anita Park Racecourse readies itself for next weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, officials have been monitoring the entries to the respective events very closely. With the ...

• Game On Dude Classic Favorite as Pre-entered Contestants Announced

  Set to take place on 2-3 November, and televised live on both NBC and the NBC Sports Network, The Breeders' Cup has 180 pre-entered contestants for the event at Santa Anita Park. As anticipated, ...

• Luck – Revealing the Multi-Faceted World of Horseracing

  Often referred to as the "Sport of Kings", horseracing has had more than its share of controversy during its history. Today, with casinos collaborating with the horseracing industry, and ...

• Horse Racing Resumes In Italy

  It has been a month since the racecourses in Italy filled with spectators, that horsemen scurried around the stables preparing horses and racecourse officials did their last minute checks to ...

• Starting Gate Training – Why and How

  Unfortunately, all the sales talk that company representatives use to sell a starting gate does not guarantee that a race horse is going to enter them. Trying to reassure a race horse that it ...

• Pacific Classic Victory for Go Between

  The Grade 1 $1 Million Pacific Classic was run on Sunday, 24 August 2008, at the Del Mar Racetrack, and was a race that saw some the best of the best in horse racing go up against each other. ...

• Opening Day at Del Mar

  The first day of Del Mar's 75th Anniversary season drew record crowds of spectators with record-breaking wagering taking place...

• Towards Better Horse Racing

  Horse racing is a complex sport and a major business as well! It has endless facets from the biology of breeding and caring for thoroughbred horses to the math of handicapping. Horse racing ...

• Mel Lawson Honored

  Since its inauguration in 1976, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame has paid tribute to horse trainers, horse racing industry builders, standardbred horses, thoroughbred horses, jockeys and ...

• Tatenen Heads To Arkle As Favorite

  Betting in favor of Tatenen, for the Arkle Chase has been gaining momentum, as wagering agencies have seen the punters grow in confidence that Tatenen is becoming a formidable competitor in the ...