Jack Keller, the longtime clerk of scales at Finger Lakes, will be inducted into the track's Hall of Fame June 13.
A letter sent by CDI's Bill Carstanjen to the Louisiana Racing Commission and state political leaders, noting CDI's intention to surrender its racing license at Fair Grounds, appears unlikely to result in immediate regulatory or legislative relief.
Chad Brown seeks a fifth win in the Eatontown Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park June 14 with a pair of runners, Maggie Go and Whiskey Decision, that make their barn and year debuts.
The Australian racing community is mourning the death of Newcastle based trainer Ben Smith, who was just 42. It comes as Smith's 13-month ban from the sport for drug use was drawing to a close.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Sandown, Perth, Doncaster, Chepstow, and Fontwell.
NBC Sports anchor Ahmed Fareed was starting to feel like the Maytag repairman while serving as Mike Tirico's understudy at last weekend's Kentucky Derby.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Ayr, Lingfield, Wolverhampton and Windsor.
DOMINIC KING: First he wanted to share a handshake with Dan Skelton, then he wanted to congratulate Olly Murphy, who had saddled the last big winner of jumps season.
The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board will review Philip Byrnes' final-hurdle unseat at Wexford Racecourse on Wednesday.
Lake Victoria withstands a strong challenge from 50-1 outsider California Dreamer to take victory in the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.
Field of Gold is a dominant winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas as the evens favourite finished three and three quarter lengths clear of Cosmic Year at the Curragh.
Journalism recovers from a bump and comes with a late surge to win the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.
Lead Artist edges out Dancing Gemini in a pulsating Lockinge Stakes at Newbury to give jockey Oisin Murphy his first win in the race.
Favourite Rebel's Romance holds off the field to win the 2025 Yorkshire Cup by a head from Epic Poet.
Pride Of Arras is a shock winner of the Dante Stakes at York as favourite The Lion In Winter finishes sixth.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla send their racehorse Reaching High to be trained in Ireland by Willie Mullins, while Whirl triumphs at York.
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) becomes the latest major organisation to be targeted by a cyber attack.
Legendary trainer Peter Easterby, who saddles racing greats including Sea Pigeon and Night Nurse, dies at the age of 95.
Jack Keller, the longtime clerk of scales at Finger Lakes, will be inducted into the track's Hall of Fame June 13.
A letter sent by CDI's Bill Carstanjen to the Louisiana Racing Commission and state political leaders, noting CDI's intention to surrender its racing license at Fair Grounds, appears unlikely to result in immediate regulatory or legislative relief.
Chad Brown seeks a fifth win in the Eatontown Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park June 14 with a pair of runners, Maggie Go and Whiskey Decision, that make their barn and year debuts.
Bishops Bay appears primed to land his fourth consecutive victory when he visits the Jersey Shore in the $150,000 Salvator Mile Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park.
Sandal's Song, an intended starter in the June 19 Norfolk Stakes (G2), has become the latest pre-Royal Ascot purchase by Wathnan Racing.
The National Thoroughbred League is getting involved in the resurgence of trading cards as it recently unveiled its first set made by Leaf, which will be released this fall.
United States trainer Wesley Ward will not saddle any runners at Royal Ascot for the first time since 2012 after pulling plans at the last minute to send over a juvenile team headed by the unbeaten Outfielder.
Natural Rise toyed with the opposition in the June 11 Tokyo Derby at Oi Racecourse before winning with ease and moving within one win of sweeping Japan's Dirt Triple Crown.
Tyler Weaver, 22, has secured a place in the US Open, where he will be competing against the likes of Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau.
Aidan O'Brien has three runners in the Epsom Oaks after combining with Ryan Moore for wins with Minding, Love and Tuesday in the past decade.
William Hill has revealed the horses the firm stands to lose most money on during the five day racing extravaganza next week
Kevin Blake somehow landed an incredible 8,249/1 tricast at the Epsom Derby.
Express Sport brings you the finishing order from the Epsom Derby.
The Scout weighed in with a 9-2 winner of the Oaks at Epsom. Our tipster is back for the Betfred-sponsored feature - and is taking on favourite Delacroix.
Norman's Cay was put down after sustaining a fatal injury at Epsom Downs.
Ryan Moore drove Minnie Hauk ahead of Aidan O'Brien stablemate Whirl in the Betfred Oaks, after seeing off Coronation Cup favourite Calandagan on Jan Breughel
David Aykroyd, who suffers from dementia, will be unable to travel to the races where Pride Of Arras, who is third favourite, bids for glory on Saturday
The Australian racing community is mourning the death of Newcastle based trainer Ben Smith, who was just 42. It comes as Smith's 13-month ban from the sport for drug use was drawing to a close.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Sandown, Perth, Doncaster, Chepstow, and Fontwell.
NBC Sports anchor Ahmed Fareed was starting to feel like the Maytag repairman while serving as Mike Tirico's understudy at last weekend's Kentucky Derby.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Ayr, Lingfield, Wolverhampton and Windsor.
DOMINIC KING: First he wanted to share a handshake with Dan Skelton, then he wanted to congratulate Olly Murphy, who had saddled the last big winner of jumps season.
In a shocking blow to the Australian harness racing community, celebrated trainer and driver Greg Sugars has passed away unexpectedly aged just 40.
When losing a little bit of faith in the game, actually going racing is the perfect tonic.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Saturday's meetings at Sandown, Haydock, Leicester, Ripon, Doncaster and Wolverhampton.
DOMINIC KING: The stable lad at the heart of betting controversy is now €100,000 richer after Ladbrokes took the decision to settle his life-changing wager.
Nico De Boinville was kicked in the back after falling off As The Fella Says in the novice handicap hurdle on the Sussex Champion Chase card on Monday.
California-breds have long been the backbone of California racing. Since 2014, they've represented between 45% and 50% of all starters at Thoroughbred race meets in the state. Over half of all horses currently stabled in Southern California tracks are understood to be Cal-breds.
A shrinking foal crop in the state, however, means that racing secretaries will have to rely on fewer of them than is currently the case over the next few years.
Modeling performed for the TDN suggests there will be a combined 290 fewer Cal-bred runners competing in California between 2026 through 2028.
This is a tough time for the state's remaining breeders as they attempt to forge a commercial footprint in a region with high training costs and purses that can't compete with states propped up by supplemental purse incomes.
For the current consolidated...
Editor's note, by Dan Ross:
Despite the New York Racing Association's efforts in recent years to limit Computer Assisted Wagering (CAW) participation in the Win, Late Pick Five, and Pick Six pools, the influence these teams exert in terms of last-cycle betting impacts appears to be growing in several other key pools, according to research conducted by economics professors Marshall Gramm and Nick McKinney, both of Rhodes College in Tennessee.
Indeed, they found that since 2022, the percentage share from CAW players of monies wagered last-minute into the Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta and Early Pick 5 pools (among others), has grown significantly. Why is this a problem for trainers, owners and other industry stakeholders?
With worsening CAW encroachment within these betting pools has come growing attrition from racing's average punters, turned away from the sport by the competitive imbalance. And with the nation's purses fueled primarily by wagering...
NEWMARKET, UK — It's that time of year again, when Newmarket welcomes the international visitors ahead of Royal Ascot, and there are few with a more international profile than Carl Spackler.
The son of Lope De Vega was bred in Ireland and has visited Newmarket before when offered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, but the treble Grade I winner has thus far spent his entire racing career in the United States with Chad Brown. From one of America's leading trainers he now passes to the care of one of Australia's and, following his purchase by Yulong Investments, the stallion is now with Ciaron Maher as he takes aim at the Queen Anne Stakes before heading down under.
The chestnut with the striking blaze was hard to miss on the July Course just after 6am on Wednesday as he worked under Jamie Spencer. New Zealander James McDonald will be in the saddle at Ascot.
Maher's head of bloodstock, Will Bourne, said, “We came here wanting to have...
James Cummings is set to depart Australian racing to take up a position as trainer in Hong Kong. The appointment was announced by the Hong Kong Jockey Club at a press conference at Sha Tin on Wednesday morning, with Cummings the guest of honour in attendance.
Cummings has trained 52 Group 1 winners in his career and managed the careers of Anamoe, Bivouac and Broadsiding in his tenure as Godolphin's private trainer in Australia.
The news of Cummings's departure for Hong Kong came not long after Godolphin had announced that they were changing to a public training model for the upcoming season, where Cummings had been slated to become one of a number of trainers on the roster.
Cummings will be eligible to have runners at Sha Tin and Happy Valley as of September 2026 and joins the Hong Kong training ranks at a time of regeneration.
“This wasn't a decision I made lightly. With the upcoming conclusion...
A 2-year-old store by Walk In The Park made €230,000 on the bid of Gerry Aherne to top the Goffs Arkle Sale on Wednesday.
Sold as lot 457 from the Glenwood Stud draft, the colt is out of G2 Warfield Mares Hurdle heroine Sparky May (Midnight Legend), who ran third in the G1 Sefton Novices' Hurdle. Her best produce is Grade 1-winning hurdler and chaser Stage Star (Fame And Glory). He sold for €110,000 to Richard Frisby during the 2023 Goffs December National Hunt Sale.
Leading the 3-year-old stores was a gelding by Nathaniel (lot 389), who sold to Tom Malone and Owen Daley for €200,000. Consigned by Oaks Farm Stables, the bay is a half-brother to Grade 1-winning hurdler Santini (Milan) and Grade 2 victor Rockpoint (Shirocco).
Another 14 lots made or exceeded €100,000 on Wednesday, bringing the total over the first two days to 29. The gross was €18,752,000 (+13%) for 349 lots sold from 415 offered (84%). The average was €53,731 (+11%) and the median was €45,000 (+...
Godolphin's Racing and Nominations assistant at Jonabell Farm for Darley America joins Ferrin Peterson on this week's Boundless Podcast to discuss the many ways there are to get into Thoroughbred racing.
The episode is the first episodei n the Boundless students series, designed to inspire young people to get involved in racing and to learn how to break into the industry.
Morgan explains that her role is to handle all administrative tasks for the racing side of Godolphin, as well as vaccination and vetwork and HISA paperwork. She also supervises the aftercare of their herd, under the program they call Godolphin Lifetime, where all geldings are found a lifetime home or transitioned into a second career.
Morgan explained that she was not from a racing family, but grew up riding and transferred to the University of Kentucky after two years at a community college near her Maryland home. But she found some barriers to entry, often finding it hard to beat out others...
Longtime Finger Lakes Clerk of Scales Jack Keller will be inducted into the track's Hall of Fame this Friday, the gaming establishment said in a press release on Wednesday.
When Keller arrived at Finger Lakes outside of Farmington, New York in 1967, he figured he would spend a year working as a valet and then move on to another track for his next adventure in the world of racing.
One year, however, became 59.
“As it turned out, I never left,” said Keller, who is in his 39th season as the track's Clerk of Scales.
Keller grew up in Ohio and fell in love with racing when he was going to the track with his father. He then landed a job on the backstretch in 1950, becoming a hotwalker at Ascot Park near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
He also rode at Ohio fairs but was too heavy to make weight at parimutuel tracks so transitioned to becoming an outrider and then assistant starter across Ohio, working at Ascot Park, Thistledown, Randall Park and Cranwood...
Every week, the TDN posts a roundup of the relevant Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) related rulings from around the country.
The following rulings were reported on HISA's “rulings” portal and through the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit's (HIWU) “pending” and “resolved” cases portals.
Resolved ADMC Violations
Date: 06/09/2025
Licensee: Victor Barboza, trainer
Penalty: None. Case dismissed.
Explainer: Barboza had faced a medication violation for the use or attempted use of a Class C controlled medication on Gayles Evening during the race period, an event dated 3/2/25. According to the final ruling of the internal adjudication panel, regulatory veterinarian Dr....
It's been a magical year so far for jockey Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty (Into Mischief) to victories in the GI Kentucky Derby and the GI Belmont S. They were the first wins in the Triple Crown series for the 39-year-old native of Venezuela, but they surely won't be the last. Alvarado now rides regularly for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, whose stable is loaded with talent.
But Alvarado almost missed the Derby assignment. He fractured his shoulder blade in a Mar. 23 spill at Gulfstream. He would definitely miss the GI Florida Derby and doctors warned him he might not be ready to ride in the Derby. Alvarado would hear nothing of that and worked overtime to be ready for the first leg of the Triple Crown.
What was it like to think you might have the best 3-year-old in the country but wouldn't be able to ride him in the Derby? That was one of many questions our team asked Alvarado on this week's Thoroughbred Daily News Writers' Room Podcast presented by...
