Lasix (drug)

Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad...

(Reuters) - The Godolphin doping scandal should prompt international racing authorities to look at bringing consistency to the rules on using drugs, British Horseracing Authority (BHA) chief executive Paul Bittar said on Friday. Godolphin trainer Mahmood...

By Justin Palmer LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - The royal blue silks of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin stables have become synonymous with two decades of elite racing success but the reputation of the Dubai ruler's global operation has come under a doping...

LONDON (Reuters) - The royal blue silks of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin stables have become synonymous with two decades of elite racing success but the reputation of the Dubai ruler's global operation has come under a doping cloud. Trainer Mahmood Al...

Under pressure from trainers and owners who support the use of the diuretic furosemide to prevent bleeding in race horses, the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors voted Friday to reverse a decision that would have banned the drug’s use for all...

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...

He wasn't exactly Peter Finch in the 1976 movie "Network," telling the world he was "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!" But thoroughbred trainer Mark Casse wasn't a happy camper Thursday. Casse, 51, one of Canada's leading trainers, with just...

Eight Breeders' Cup champions are among the 180 horses that have been pre-entered for the 29th Breeders' Cup World Championships set for Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita. Final entries will be taken Monday. Game On Dude, a multiple Grade I winner trained by...

Belmont Park interrupts a string of seemingly endless stores, most of them tiny and old, a lot of them vacant. There are Taco Bells and Wendy’s, of course, but little sub shops and ethnic joints, too, run by people who care about the quality of...

Maryland trainer Chris Grove knows all too well that racehorses sometimes take fatal missteps. It happened to one of his best horses last summer during a morning workout, and Grove likens the experience to losing a child. To Grove, the animals' broken...

They wake up, and then they sing. Team O'Neill — as Kentucky Derby winner Doug O'Neill and his group of assistants and grooms are called — rises early, like all horsemen. In Baltimore, where the crew is preparing I'll Have Another to run in...

At the desk where he works through entries after all of his morning training sessions are through, Michael Matz keeps a photo leaning against the wall. In a walnut frame, it is slightly – and surprisingly – faded. The text below a horse in...