Horse Racing News

Riposte found the yielding turf at Belmont Park to her liking as she rolled to a front-running victory in the $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes over a good field for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott May 24.

A change in tactics helped Fire With Fire produce a 7-1 upset in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Handicap May 24 on the grass at Santa Anita Park, giving Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale a record-tying seventh win in the race.

Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old of 2013, will make his long-awaited sophomore debut on Memorial Day, May 26, at Golden Gate Fields in a six-furlong allowance race.

Multiple grade I winner Emollient has burned plenty of money in her two starts this year, but she'll attempt to regain her winning form with a return to Santa Anita Park for the $300,000 Gamely Stakes Memorial Day, May 26.

Santa Anita Park has announced that it's one mile main track will undergo a major renovation beginning July 11 following conclusion of the Southern California facility's first spring stand.

California Chrome was unfazed by a chance encounter with an opossum that crossed the track at Belmont Park as the Triple Crown hopeful was ending his gallop.

A racehorse died Thursday at Churchill Downs after a freak fall that the trainer blamed on the sound of a starting gate bell blaring on the track's new sound system.

Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome set foot on the Belmont Park main track for the first time May 21, leisurely jogging once around the 1 ½-mile course with exercise rider Willie Delgado aboard.

The Brook Ledge horse van carrying California Chrome and Ride On Curlin pulled up to Barn 26 at Belmont Park at 10:45 a.m., Tuesday, May 20, where the pair will reside for the next 18 days leading up to the June 7 Belmont Stakes.

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Arkansas Derby winner Danza, who was most recently a troubled third in the May 3 Kentucky Derby, will miss the June 7 Belmont Stakes.