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, [...]
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 [...]