Breeders' Cup

If anything was learned at Santa Anita this weekend, it's that the $15,000 stud fee for Eclipse Award winner Midnight Lute needs to be raised. There were three horses from the first crop of foals by Midnight Lute that won Saturday and Sunday, all trained...

Gail Vacca can pinpoint exactly when her love for horses began. She was 4, on a family vacation in New Jersey, and her horse-loving grandfather asked her if she wanted a pony ride. "I still remember it," says Vacca, founder and president of the...

It was late in the day Saturday at Santa Anita, when grandpa Gary Stevens decided to show the young'uns a thing or two about horse racing. The starting gate was almost full for the ninth race, the $150,000 Grade II featured San Marcos Stakes. Eleven...

Richard Golden became a savior of the Maryland thoroughbred horse breeding industry in 1988 when he teamed with Allaire du Pont and later Tom Bowman to open Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, eventually revitalizing farmland that had been home...

What: Eclipse Award Week at Gulfstream When: Tuesday, Jan. 15 - Sunday, Jan. 20 Where: Gulfstream Park Sunday, Jan. 13-18: Silent auction for travel, art and sports enthusiasts. Featured items include tickets to the U.S. Open, tickets, airfare and...

In less than 10 months, the Breeders’ Cup returns to Santa Anita for its world championships, and trainer John Sadler said this past weekend there will be an attempt to reverse the decision to ban the anti-bleeding medication lasix from all horses...

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, out of racing since his retirement in November 2005, will begin what he hopes to be a comeback Sunday in the sixth race at Santa Anita. Stevens, 49, will ride Jebrica in a $50,000 claiming race. "My passion is still...

Jockey Rosie Napravnik (Hereford) closed out a career-best season Dec. 31, securing the highest spot ever for a female jockey on the North American leader board. Finishing the year with $12,451,713 in purse earnings and 193 wins with 191 seconds and 167...

A growing number of thoroughbreds are being groomed for new roles following their days on the race track, including assignments as fox hunters, riding horses, pets and show jumpers. Maryland thoroughbred trainer Rodney Jenkins points to the...

Team Valor International, owner of 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, has announced that Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion is once again hoping to prep the horse for a run in the $10 million Dubai World Cup next spring. Animal Kingdom...