Triple Crown Insider

The framework for a Southern California racing calendar over the next two years with the impending closure of Betfair Hollywood Park was approved by the California Horse Racing Board May 23.

The changing landscape of West Coast racing will include an unusual twist to the calendar – Santa Anita will stay open into July and Del Mar into the month of December. The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday gave the industry its first look at a California circuit that will operate next year without Hollywood Park.

No trainer plays the claiming game in New York better these days than David Jacobson, a point he drove home Thursday winning four races at Belmont Park, all with horses making their first start off the claim.

Class drops could hold the key to the Grade 3, $150,000 Matron, a 1 1/8-mile Polytrack race for older fillies and mares Saturday at Arlington Park.

On Saturday, May 25, the stakes-winning, hard-knocking horse Sir Prize Birthday will celebrate his 33rd birthday.

How did a 2-year-old filly who had allegedly never been administered a drug inexplicably end up with that drug in her blood sample on raceday? That was one of the questions at the heart of an appeal heard earlier this week at the offices of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission outside Lexington.

One mare who hasn’t raced in five months and another who just ran last weekend figure to vie for favoritism in Saturday’s $75,000 My Juliet Stakes for older female sprinters at Parx Racing.

Dual grade I winner and first-crop sire Pioneerof the Nile saw his first winner May 12 as juvenile filly Zarnica won her first start in a 1,000-meter race in Russia at the Rostov-On-Don Hippodrome.

Called to Serve, who was developing into a solid player in the handicap division, will be out until late fall after injuring a splint bone, trainer Nick Canani said.

The 6-year-old mare Down Town Allen, who dominated the richest race for West Virginia-bred older fillies and mares that Charles Town offers last fall, and the youngster Jax and Jill, the best 2-year-old statebred filly on the grounds last season, will meet for the first time in Saturday night’s $50,000 Fancy Buckles Stakes.

Nates Mineshaft has accomplished more than any of his nine opponents in the Grade 3, $150,000 Hanshin Cup, and the race’s second-most accomplished horse, Mister Marti Gras, proved no match for Nates Mineshaft when they met twice last year.

Jon & Joel recap the Preakness and the breakout performance by Oxbow. They also discuss Orb’s disappointing performance at Pimlico, and take an early look at the Belmont Stakes.

Jon & Joel recap the Preakness and the breakout performance by Oxbow, a colt that remained…

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ homebred Tapit filly Teardrop rolled to a 3 3/4-length victory in her Thursday debut at Churchill Downs…

WinStar Farm is auctioning off memorabilia on Ebay.com with 100% of the proceeds going to designated industry charities. The online auction, which includes four separate offerings, began late Tuesday…

The final session of the May 20-21 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Timonium, Md. turned into a showcase for Malibu Moon…

Unbridled’s Song’s sales average of $276,667 at the May 20-21 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Timonium, Md. led all sires…

Northern Afleet had the top-selling filly at the May 20-21 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale…

It’s been an interesting ride from the beginning of the year, along the Derby trail and now 2/3 the way through the Triple Crown. With the incredible run by Orb in the Kentucky Derby, then the upset win by Oxbow in the Preakness Stakes it…

As we said earlier in the week, the 2013 Preakness Stakes was Orb’s to lose and that he did. He did not display the same explosive kick that we saw in his previous wins including the Florida and Kentucky Derby. On the backstretch, while Oxbow…

Winning the triple crown has been a daunting task for any horse over the past 35 years since Affirmed won all three legs back in 1978. Several horses have won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, only to be heart-broken in the Belmont Stakes. Three…

FRANKIE DETTORI has returned to France determined to meet every demand made of him by French authorities in the expectation he may soon be cleared to ride.

JIM BOLGER has revealed Investec Derby favourite Dawn Approach has been thriving since winning the Qipco 2,000 Guineas last month.