From an American perspective, horse racing and anime franchises sound like strange bedfellows. Their demographics could hardly be more disparate, with racing featuring a primarily older demographic, ...

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s kickoff 2026 with a new set of Weekend Winners focusing on Saturday’s two stakes races at Gulfstream Park, the Mucho Macho Man Stakes for newly turned 3-year-olds and ...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve heads to Arkansas Saturday with the 19th running of the $250,000 Smarty Jones Stakes, the first of four qualifying points preps to be held ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Week 5 of the Rookie Rankings features a Top 10 that is largely unchanged from Week 4. But there is one small shift worth noting as the series wraps up. The first nine ...

Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve and Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets, is preparing to compete in 2026 as a 4-year-old, according to Godolphin USA director ...

Trainer Bob Baffert capped a stellar opening day at Santa Anita Park Dec. 28 by sending out Goal Oriented and Midland Money as the winner and runner-up of the featured $301,000, Grade 1 Malibu Stakes.

As 2025 comes to an end, this seems like a good time to look back at the past 12 months and reflect on the best races of the year. Here is a highly subjective list of the top 10 races of 2025, with ...

The historic $300,000, Grade 1 Malibu Stakes, a staple of year-end racing in North America, drew a field of 10 for its 2025 renewal and is rescheduled to be run on Sunday, Dec. 28 at Santa Anita Park.

Horse racing fans get to unwrap one final Christmas gift every year when California racing celebrates opening day at Santa Anita Park. The post-holiday kickoff marks the start of the winter-spring ...

Express Kid, a 2-year-old California-bred colt who was purchased for only $2,000 as a yearling, joined a growing group of prospects the road to the 2026 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve ...

Chip Honcho outran favored Liberty National and front runner Crown the Buckeye to win the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes for 2-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles Dec.

It was a relatively quiet week in Thoroughbred racing across North America, with just one graded stakes on the schedule Dec. 13, but the Equibase jockey standings remain fiercely contested, with Irad ...