From NYRA Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens’ first order of business after being released Wednesday morning from Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation Center was to visit his barn at Belmont Park. “He came home, and said, ‘I’d like to see the horses’,” said his wife, Elizabeth...

From the New York State Racing and Wagering Board In a major step aimed at strengthening the integrity of horse racing, New York Racing and Wagering Board Chairman John D. Sabini announced on Tuesday that the Board is moving to enact tough new rules restricting the administration of anabolic steroids...

From NYRA Curlin, the defending Horse of the Year, arrived at Belmont Park Tuesday afternoon after a “very uneventful” van ride from Saratoga Race Course. With a victory in Saturday’s 90th running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup, the 4-year-old Smart Strike colt will become American racing...

From NTRA Commentator, a two-time Grade I winner for Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito, leads a field of seven for this Saturday's 66th running of the $500,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in East Boston. The MassCap has a star-studded roster of past winners, including such racing legends...

Gavin Landry, whose contributions to racing in New York are defined by the buffoonish invention of NYRA Nation, the short-lived and widely ignored mascot Auggie Belmont, the elitist, failed Saratoga “preferred access,” the large piece of wooden furniture now in the clubhouse lobby at Belmont Park and...

The state sent the New York Racing Association $105 million on Friday and is now the undisputed owner of Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course (more than 900 acres of real estate that includes), which the government will lease back to the operator of the racing franchise for $1 a year. And...

Reigning Horse of the Year and World's No. 1 Thoroughbred Curlin returned to the worktab Monday morning for the first time since his victory in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes, covering a half mile in an easy 51.34 at Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma training track. exercise rider Carlos Rosas was...

Saratoga Springs, New York The Woodward may not have been a thing of beauty, but Curlin has now won six straight races on dirt, all but 0one Grade 1, and is Grade 1 placed on turf. If he finishes fourth in his next start, he will become the all-time leading money winner in North American. The Big Brown...

From Jess Jackson "I made a sportsman’s proposal to Big Brown’s connections this morning to race at Saratoga Race Course in the Grade 1 Woodward on August 30, and they declined the invitation. I am disappointed by the news. I read this morning that Big Brown might be looking for a turf race at Belmont...

Saratoga Springs, New York No telling what condition Big Brown is in after his less than impressive Haskell Invitational but Michael Iavarone, who head IEAH Stable, backed down in the face of a challenge from Curlin’s owner, Jess Jackson, to face what is considered the world’s best horse on dirt in the...