Day two of the Breeders’ Cup kicks off at 3:05 ET with the $2 million Juvenile Fillies and will end Saturday night with the $5 million Classic, with a post time of 8:35 ET. TV coverage begins at 3:30 pm ET on NBC Sports Network and switches at 8 pm ET to NBC for the…
On Saturday at Belmont Park, the New York Racing Association will run its annual autumn showcase for New York-bred horses. Re-named this year, Empire Showcase Day will feature 11 races exclusively for horses that were foaled in this state. More than 100 horses will compete for purse money totaling more than $1.6 million. Showcase Day…
Following a wildly successful Thoroughbred yearling sale at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky last month, the English auction company Tattersalls is hoping for similar exuberance at its yearling sale this week. As was the case here, the European market for expensive racehorses took a hit over the last five years, but a combination of factors, not…
Trainer Leah Gyarmati gave up an academic career for a life at the racetrack, so it is, perhaps, a little ironic that the filly who brought her her first graded stakes victory is named Sweet Reason. Gyarmati had an off-again, on-again relationship with reason earlier in her life, wrestling with the decision to stay in…
On September 13, less than two weeks after the end of this year’s Thoroughbred meeting at Saratoga Race Course, the racing world was stunned to learn that five priceless, historic trophies had been stolen from the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In a year that saw the town celebrate the sesquicentennial of…
When T. Paul Bulmahn was a little boy, his mother offered him an incentive for doing a good job with his family’s sharecropping chores on an Indiana farm. If he raked and hoed and planted well, she said, he could climb over the fence and hang out with the draft horses next door. “I loved…
People leave the horse racing business for all kinds of reasons. It can be dangerous work. It’s tough to make a living. In most cases, they end up in work that’s a little safer, a little more stable than what they did on the racetrack. But not if you’re Iona Craig, who went from a life…
This weekend’s Zoetis $1 Million Grand Prix equestrian event in Saugerties, New York is a long way from a trail ride in the Catskills, but for 26-year-old Agatha D’Ambra, the journey has been a relatively quick one. One of the competitors in this weekend’s event, D’Ambra grew up in Rexford, New York, just north of…
Watch most telecasts of horse racing and you’ll hear little about gambling, the sport’s primary revenue stream. You’ll sometimes see the odds, and analysts/handicappers will make picks, but if you want to actually make a bet, you’d have no idea how to go about it. With the advent of racing coverage on Fox Sports 1,…
On July 17 at the annual preview of the Saratoga race meeting at the National Museum of Racing, trainer Linda Rice was asked if there were any horses she was looking forward to running. “Palace,” she said without hesitation. He finished fourth a couple of weeks later, but if the people in the audience that…
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