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New York Senate, General Assembly endorse loans to remodel Belmont Park

DRF | 1 year ago
Majority leadership of both legislative houses of the New York government released proposed budget resolutions on Tuesday that include endorsements for a plan to loan the New York Racing Association hundreds of millions of dollars so that the associati... Read More...

New York Senate, General Assembly endorse loans to remodel Belmont Park

DRF | 1 year ago
Majority leadership of both legislative houses of the New York government released proposed budget resolutions on Tuesday that include endorsements for a plan to loan the New York Racing Association hundreds of millions of dollars so that the associati... Read More...

Yonkers: Opening round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series drawn

DRF | 1 year ago
The 2023 edition of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series for free-for-allers will begin on Monday night (April 20) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with four $50,000 divisions on the 12-race program. Read More...

Yonkers: Opening round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series drawn

DRF | 1 year ago
The 2023 edition of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series for free-for-allers will begin on Monday night (April 20) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with four $50,000 divisions on the 12-race program. Read More...

Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Thursday 3/16

DRF | 1 year ago
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 3/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Read More...

Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Thursday 3/16

DRF | 1 year ago
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 3/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Read More...

DRF’s Horse Racing Playbook for Wednesday, March 15, 2023

DRF | 1 year ago
Daily Racing Form has served as the most trusted source of news and information about the sport since 1894, and moving forward we have decided to provide a free daily playbook; something that both hardcore horseplayers and casual observers can reference to get informed of each day's action. Read More...

DRF’s Horse Racing Playbook for Wednesday, March 15, 2023

DRF | 1 year ago
Daily Racing Form has served as the most trusted source of news and information about the sport since 1894, and moving forward we have decided to provide a free daily playbook; something that both hardcore horseplayers and casual observers can reference to get informed of each day's action. Read More...

Harness: Few can buck the trend of the third-year stallion blues

DRF | 1 year ago
What's been fascinating to me over the course of time is how treacherous the path to stallion success can be and how faith in a particular horse can vary depending on many variables, with luck perhaps the most important of them all. Read More...

Harness: Few can buck the trend of the third-year stallion blues

DRF | 1 year ago
What's been fascinating to me over the course of time is how treacherous the path to stallion success can be and how faith in a particular horse can vary depending on many variables, with luck perhaps the most important of them all. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Thursday 3/16

DRF | 1 year ago
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 3/16 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Thursday 3/16

DRF | 1 year ago
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 3/16 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Harness: Weather forces Tuesday cancellations

DRF | 1 year ago
Due to a major winter storm that's ongoing throughout the Northeast United States, both Monticello Raceway and Saratoga Casino Hotel have opted to cancel their scheduled live racing programs for Tuesday, March 14. Read More...

Harness: Weather forces Tuesday cancellations

DRF | 1 year ago
Due to a major winter storm that's ongoing throughout the Northeast United States, both Monticello Raceway and Saratoga Casino Hotel have opted to cancel their scheduled live racing programs for Tuesday, March 14. Read More...

Yonkers: Blue Chip Matchmaker Series kicks off on Friday night

DRF | 1 year ago
The first leg of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series for pacing mares at Yonkers Raceway was drawn on Monday afternoon (March 13), with a total of 24 entrants necessitating a trio of $40,000 divisions on Friday night's (March 17) ten-race program. Read More...

Yonkers: Blue Chip Matchmaker Series kicks off on Friday night

DRF | 1 year ago
The first leg of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series for pacing mares at Yonkers Raceway was drawn on Monday afternoon (March 13), with a total of 24 entrants necessitating a trio of $40,000 divisions on Friday night's (March 17) ten-race program. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Wednesday 3/15

DRF | 1 year ago
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Wednesday 3/15 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Wednesday 3/15

DRF | 1 year ago
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Wednesday 3/15 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Tuesday 3/14

DRF | 1 year ago
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 3/14 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Yonkers: Analysis for Tuesday 3/14

DRF | 1 year ago
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 3/14 card at Yonkers Raceway. Read More...

Cheltenham: Edwardstone, Energumene vie for favoritism in Queen Mother Champion Chase

DRF | 1 year ago
In 10 starts in two-mile chases, steeplechaser Edwardstone and jockey Tom Cannon have won six races, including three Grade 1 stakes, and finished second twice. The consistency has left Edwardstone as Britain’s leading chance in Wednesday’s Grade 1 Quee... Read More...

Cheltenham: Edwardstone, Energumene vie for favoritism in Queen Mother Champion Chase

DRF | 1 year ago
In 10 starts in two-mile chases, steeplechaser Edwardstone and jockey Tom Cannon have won six races, including three Grade 1 stakes, and finished second twice. The consistency has left Edwardstone as Britain’s leading chance in Wednesday’s Grade 1 Quee... Read More...

Recent win makes Carrothers one to beat in allowance

DRF | 1 year ago
Anyone who ascribes to the “what have you done for me lately” theory of handicapping will be singling Carrothers in Wednesday’s seventh race, the first of two allowance events to close out the card when racing returns at Gulfstream Park following the r... Read More...

Recent win makes Carrothers one to beat in allowance

DRF | 1 year ago
Anyone who ascribes to the “what have you done for me lately” theory of handicapping will be singling Carrothers in Wednesday’s seventh race, the first of two allowance events to close out the card when racing returns at Gulfstream Park following the r... Read More...

Australia: Oz Legend, Tip of the Spear meet again

DRF | 1 year ago
The Irish-bred geldings Oz Legend and Tip of the Spear met for the first time when they finished first and second in a handicap at 1 1/2 miles at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Australia on Feb. 23. They will be reunited as part of a tougher field of rival... Read More...

Australia: Oz Legend, Tip of the Spear meet again

DRF | 1 year ago
The Irish-bred geldings Oz Legend and Tip of the Spear met for the first time when they finished first and second in a handicap at 1 1/2 miles at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Australia on Feb. 23. They will be reunited as part of a tougher field of rival... Read More...

Supporters of state loan to redevelop Belmont Park rally at Capitol

DRF | 1 year ago
Horsemen, backstretch workers, business leaders, organized labor and about a dozen or so members of the New York state legislature attended a 30-minute rally Monday at the State Capitol in Albany to support a budget proposal to grant the New York Racin... Read More...

Supporters of state loan to redevelop Belmont Park rally at Capitol

DRF | 1 year ago
Horsemen, backstretch workers, business leaders, organized labor and about a dozen or so members of the New York state legislature attended a 30-minute rally Monday at the State Capitol in Albany to support a budget proposal to grant the New York Racin... Read More...

Atras enjoys 8-for-10 week, jumps to second in trainer standings

DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Rob Atras enjoyed an incredible week at Aqueduct, winning with eight of the 10 starters he sent out from Friday through Sunday. Add in a victory with his lone starter on March 5 and Atras has gone 9 for his last 11 at the Big A. Read More...

Atras enjoys 8-for-10 week, jumps to second in trainer standings

DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Rob Atras enjoyed an incredible week at Aqueduct, winning with eight of the 10 starters he sent out from Friday through Sunday. Add in a victory with his lone starter on March 5 and Atras has gone 9 for his last 11 at the Big A. Read More...

Calhoun has two chances to jump-start stable in allowance

DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Bret Calhoun has two solid chances to capture the featured seventh race Thursday at Fair Grounds. Therideofalifetime and Sutherland walk over to the paddock from Calhoun's stable. Both are listed at morning-line odds of 4-1, but 5-year-old Therideofalifetime, who is entered under the race's claiming option, is at a much different point in his career than 4-year-old Sutherland. Read More...

Calhoun has two chances to jump-start stable in allowance

DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Bret Calhoun has two solid chances to capture the featured seventh race Thursday at Fair Grounds. Therideofalifetime and Sutherland walk over to the paddock from Calhoun's stable. Both are listed at morning-line odds of 4-1, but 5-year-old Therideofalifetime, who is entered under the race's claiming option, is at a much different point in his career than 4-year-old Sutherland. Read More...

Calia wins NHC, also places fourth for nearly $1 million in winnings

DRF | 1 year ago
Paul Calia, a retired former disability manager for Social Security from Kansas City, Mo., won the top prize of $800,000 at the National Handicapping Championship last weekend in Las Vegas while also finishing fourth with a second entry that pushed his... Read More...

Calia wins NHC, also places fourth for nearly $1 million in winnings

DRF | 1 year ago
Paul Calia, a retired former disability manager for Social Security from Kansas City, Mo., won the top prize of $800,000 at the National Horseplayers Championship last weekend in Las Vegas while also finishing fourth with a second entry that pushed his... Read More...

Promising Great Navigator begins comeback

DRF | 1 year ago
Eddie Owens remembers when Great Navigator was a 2-year-old standout at Monmouth Park in 1992. Fast forward more than 30 years, and Owens is now the trainer of a different Great Navigator, one of the major players in the Thursday feature at Gulfstream ... Read More...

Promising Great Navigator begins comeback

DRF | 1 year ago
Eddie Owens remembers when Great Navigator was a 2-year-old standout at Monmouth Park in 1992. Fast forward more than 30 years, and Owens is now the trainer of a different Great Navigator, one of the major players in the Thursday feature at Gulfstream ... Read More...

C Z Rocket arrives in Dubai for Golden Shaheen

DRF | 1 year ago
The veteran sprinter C Z Rocket arrived in Dubai on Monday for a scheduled start in the Group 1 Golden Shaheen Sprint at Meydan Racecourse on March 25, the 9-year-old gelding's first trip abroad. Read More...

C Z Rocket arrives in Dubai for Golden Shaheen

DRF | 1 year ago
The veteran sprinter C Z Rocket arrived in Dubai on Monday for a scheduled start in the Group 1 Golden Shaheen Sprint at Meydan Racecourse on March 25, the 9-year-old gelding's first trip abroad. Read More...

Papaprodromou has two top sprinters

DRF | 1 year ago
California trainer George Papaprodromou will have a strong team of sprinters this spring, including the lightly raced 5-year-old Spirit of Makena, who is unbeaten in two starts this year. Read More...

Papaprodromou has two top sprinters

DRF | 1 year ago
California trainer George Papaprodromou will have a strong team of sprinters this spring, including the lightly raced 5-year-old Spirit of Makena, who is unbeaten in two starts this year. Read More...

Rocket Can likely to run next in Arkansas Derby

DRF | 1 year ago
The imposing presence of reigning juvenile champion Forte in the lineup for the $1 million Florida Derby on April 1 could result in several other top 3-year-old prospects being re-routed elsewhere for their final Kentucky Derby prep. Among them is Holy... Read More...

Rocket Can likely to run next in Arkansas Derby

DRF | 1 year ago
The imposing presence of reigning juvenile champion Forte in the lineup for the $1 million Florida Derby on April 1 could result in several other top 3-year-old prospects being re-routed elsewhere for their final Kentucky Derby prep. Among them is Holy... Read More...

Faucheux vaults to top of standings with 8 for 14 week

DRF | 1 year ago
The Fair Grounds trainer standings as of March 8: Brad Cox 32 wins, Bret Calhoun 31 wins, Ron Faucheux 25 wins. Less than a week later, we have a new leader – Ron Faucheux! Read More...

Faucheux vaults to top of standings with 8 for 14 week

DRF | 1 year ago
The Fair Grounds trainer standings as of March 8: Brad Cox 32 wins, Bret Calhoun 31 wins, Ron Faucheux 25 wins. Less than a week later, we have a new leader – Ron Faucheux! Read More...

Gutierrez holds commanding lead in quest for first riding title

DRF | 1 year ago
The jockey Reylu Gutierrez on Sunday afternoon was idling at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, trying to make his way back to New Orleans after riding Saturday at Oaklawn Park. All winter at Fair Grounds, Gutierrez has found a knack for... Read More...

O’Connell becomes winningest female trainer

DRF | 1 year ago
Kathleen O'Connell on Sunday passed Kim Hammond as the all-time winningest female trainer in North America when My Eagle Soars gave her career win No. 2,386 in the fifth race. Well-wishers lined up to congratulate O'Connell afterward. Read More...

Brave Emperor after qualifying points in Kentucky Derby Condition Stakes at Kempton Park

DRF | 1 year ago
A stakes winner in France last month, Brave Emperor will be favored to win for the fifth time in his seventh start in the $72,600 Road to the Kentucky Derby Condition Stakes at Kempton Park near London on Wednesday. Read More...

Harness: If Major League Baseball can change, so can racing

DRF | 1 year ago
Major League Baseball has been more than tinkering with its game over the last few years. Some of the changes include adding a universal designated hitter, banning the shifting of infielders to one side of the field and perhaps the most dramatic move, ... Read More...