This just in: In an event that should yield some of most exciting horse racing results ever, The Kentucky Oaks Thoroughbred horse race will carry a $1 million guaranteed purse in 2011, compared to a $500,000 purse last year.
The purse was doubled for the 137th running of the Grade I Kentucky Oaks race, often called [...]
The 59th running of the Grade 2 $150,000 San Fernando Stakes for newly turned four-year-olds features Sidney’s Candy, winner of his last three graded stakes races in California in wire-to-wire fashion including the Grade 3 Sir Beaufort Stakes, last month at Santa Anita. With six of the other eight entrants having won or placed in [...]
Calder Casino & Race Course elected to begin horse racing year round. Calder filed the revised plan on January sixth, amending the dates in their filing with the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering. The Miami Gardens, Florida horse racing track said races will be held Fridays through Sundays every week starting July 1, [...]
The state of Maryland may forever see 2010 as the year when its beloved horse racing legacy almost went dark. Xmas could not have come too soon for the Thoroughbred horse racing trainers, horse breeders and track workers at Bowie, Laurel and Pimlico horse race tracks. As recently as December 21st, there was much doubt [...]
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Get you and yours out to Santa Anita on opening day, December 26th, out for fun-filled carnival games like jumping on giant inflatables, pony rides, face painting and the Seabiscuit exhibit starring the horse featured in the 2003 blockbuster movie, “Seabiscuit”.
Pony Rides [...]
Time is almost up for jockey Garrett Gomez’s bid to win the national earnings title for a fifth consecutive time. As of Thursday, Gomez’s mounts had generated $16,687,669 for year, putting him in 3rd place & over $500,000 short of leader Ramon Dominguez. Gomez trailed runner-up John Velazquez by a mere $30,179.
Gomez’s only likelihood to [...]