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Horse Given Painkiller Breaks Down at New Mexico Racetrack

New York Times Horse Racing | 281 days ago

The horse, which recently tested positive for a powerful painkiller, died Thursday at a New Mexico racetrack after winning a trial heat for one of the world’s richest horse races. Read More...

Saratoga’s Summer Meet Is Bear’s Season

New York Times Horse Racing | 281 days ago

Taylor Sage, known around the track as Little Bear, is the sun around which many characters revolve. Read More...

Injured Jockey Will Return For Alabama Stakes

New York Times Horse Racing | 281 days ago

Irad Ortiz Jr. was cleared to ride in Saturday’s Alabama Stakes after hurting his ankle when he was thrown from his mount at Saratoga Race Course on Friday. Read More...

Jackson Bend Involved in Accident at Saratoga Race Course

New York Times Horse Racing | 281 days ago

Jackson Bend and the exercise rider were going on a morning gallop when the 7-year-old gelding Little Nick ran into the 5-year-old horse at the Saratoga Race Course, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito said. Read More...

Saratoga Horse Racing: Pink Pants, Trotters And an Entourage

New York Times Horse Racing | 284 days ago

Tom Durkin, the voice of New York racing when the Saratoga meet is in session, pulled out all the stops when he went to watch his trotting colt, Coraggioso, race. Read More...

Jockey Fined in Assault Case

New York Times Horse Racing | 285 days ago

Jockey Robby Albarado, who won the 2007 Preakness, was fined $500 for a misdemeanor assault conviction from a scuffle with his former girlfriend in Louisville, Ky., but his legal problems are not over. Read More...

Horse Trainer Attfield Worries About Woodbine Track

New York Times Horse Racing | 288 days ago

Roger Attfield, a top Canadian trainer, was inducted to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame, but his home track in Ontario faces an uncertain future. Read More...

Santa Anita to Host Breeders’ Cup

New York Times Horse Racing | 289 days ago

Santa Anita Park will host the 2013 Breeders’ Cup. It is the fourth time in six years the California track has been chosen as the site for thoroughbred racing’s version of a world championship. Read More...

Travers Stakes Entrants Face Heightened Scrutiny

New York Times Horse Racing | 291 days ago

The hard-line stance comes in the wake of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s taking control of horse racing in New York in the hopes of overhauling a scandal-plagued industry. Read More...

Poseidon’s Warrior Wins Vanderbilt at Saratoga

New York Times Horse Racing | 293 days ago

The long shot Poseidon’s Warrior held off Justin Phillip by a neck in deep stretch to score an upset in the Grade I Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga Race Course. Read More...

Fort Larned Wins Whitney

New York Times Horse Racing | 294 days ago

Fort Larned rallied in the final quarter-mile to win the $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap by one and a quarter lengths over the favorite Ron the Greek at Saratoga. Earlier, Emma's Encore won a photo finish over Judy the Beauty in the $300,000 Pri... Read More...

A Hambletonian Milestone

New York Times Horse Racing | 294 days ago

Market Share won the $1.5 million Hambletonian at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., making Linda Toscano the first female trainer to win trotting’s premier race. Read More...

Zippy Chippy Is a Horse That Enjoys the Spoils of Defeat

New York Times Horse Racing | 295 days ago

Zippy Chippy has emerged as a lovable ambassador for the humane treatment of horses no longer able to bring in money from racing or breeding to pay their feed and veterinarian bills. Read More...

Tactical Switch Pays Off for Front-Running Alpha in Jim Dandy

New York Times Horse Racing | 301 days ago

The trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and jockey Ramon Dominguez discussed going to the lead early, and that’s what their colt did in winning the stakes race at Saratoga. Read More...

Paynter Captures Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park

New York Times Horse Racing | 301 days ago

Paynter won by three and three-quarters lengths in the $1 million race, but neither his trainer Ahmed Zayat nor his owner Bob Baffert was in attendance. Read More...

Paynter, Second in Belmont Stakes, Is Haskell Favorite

New York Times Horse Racing | 304 days ago

Paynter has been made the 3-2 favorite in a six-horse field for Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. Read More...

Union Rags, Belmont Stakes Winner, Is Retired

New York Times Horse Racing | 308 days ago

Union Rags, the Belmont Stakes winner, has been retired because of a tendon injury in his left front leg. Read More...

Favorite Rallies to Win Sanford Stakes at Saratoga

New York Times Horse Racing | 308 days ago

Bern Identity, the favorite, overtook Handsome Jack and won the $200,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Read More...

In-Box — An Outdoor Game, Exposed for All

New York Times Horse Racing | 309 days ago

Readers sound off on the latest headlines. Read More...

Horse Owners Vow Not to Give 2-Year-Olds Race-Day Drugs

New York Times Horse Racing | 311 days ago

Some prominent horse owners announced that they would immediately stop using race-day medications on their 2-year-old horses and called for their fellow owners to do the same. Read More...

At Saratoga Race Course, It Was Love at First Sight

New York Times Horse Racing | 315 days ago

A first trip to Saratoga Race Course, in August 1972, fueled a lasting enthusiasm for horse racing. Read More...

At Saratoga Race Course, It Was Love at First Sight

New York Times Horse Racing | 315 days ago

A first trip to Saratoga Race Course, in August 1972, fueled a lasting enthusiasm for horse racing. Read More...

At Senate Hearing, Calls for Strict Discipline on Doping in Horses

New York Times Horse Racing | 317 days ago

Eight prominent members of the racing industry told a Senate committee that trainers should be banned for life if they are found to have used potent performance-enhancing drugs. Read More...

Jockey Convicted of Assaulting Former Girlfriend

New York Times Horse Racing | 318 days ago

A jury in Louisville found jockey Robby Albarado guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend. Read More...

I’ll Have Another Had History of Ailments, Records Show

New York Times Horse Racing | 319 days ago

I’ll Have Another had physical problems well before he was withdrawn from the Belmont Stakes on the eve of the race, according to veterinary records. Read More...

Belmont winner Union Rags out with ligament injury

New York Times Horse Racing | 319 days ago

Union Rags, the Belmont Stakes winner, has a minor ligament injury in his left front leg and will be sidelined for the rest of the year. Read More...

Uncertainty in Nebraska

New York Times Horse Racing | 322 days ago

The racing season ended at the only track in Nebraska, in Lincoln, leaving horse racing in the state uncertain. Read More...

Female Jockey Wins Hollywood Gold Cup

New York Times Horse Racing | 323 days ago

Game On Dude carried Chantel Sutherland to victory in the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup in Inglewood, Calif., making her the first female jockey to win the 73-year-old race. Read More...

Match Races Seldom Meet Expectations

New York Times Horse Racing | 329 days ago

The notion that a single race can determine the superior competitor had already seemed less sturdy in horse racing when Seabiscuit beat War Admiral in 1938. Read More...

Victory Is Costly for Mare in Diamond Jubilee Stakes

New York Times Horse Racing | 335 days ago

Unbeaten Black Caviar’s victory in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot on Saturday may have been her last race. Read More...

Black Caviar Stays Perfect

New York Times Horse Racing | 336 days ago

Black Caviar won a thrilling Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in England by a short head to extend her unbeaten record to 22 races in her first run outside her native Australia. Black Caviar, a Peter Moody-trained mare, went off as the 1-6 favorit... Read More...