Monmouth Park held its annual press luncheon Wednesday, with much of the discussion centering on the prospect of sports betting arriving to the Jersey Shore oval in the near future. Dennis Drazin, CEO of Darby Development LLC, which operates Monmouth on behalf of the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, said he was extremely confident–just short [...]

A quick glance at the race record of the Louisiana-bred mare Queen Satin shows she won three times from 18 starts and earned just over $36,000 during three years competing in low-level claiming races in Louisiana, West Virginia and Michigan. In a sense, the fact the bay mare was able to win a single race [...]

Keeneland opens its doors for its 16-day spring meet Friday, ushering in the unofficial beginning of springtime in the Bluegrass. Mother Nature appears to have missed that memo, however, with snow expected early in the day Saturday, but Friday's 10-race card is classic Keeneland, with milder temperatures and robust field sizes expected. The opening day [...]

Tickets for the second annual Equestricon convention will be available for purchase Apr. 18, it was announced Wednesday. Scheduled for Monday and Tuesday of Breeders' Cup Festival Week leading up to the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs in Louisville, the convention will feature racing personalities, horsemen, handicappers and fans. Tickets start as low [...]

In many ways, Lord Nelson (Pulpit)'s young stallion career at Spendthrift Farm has been a story of benchmarks. After a well-documented battle with Laminitis that forced him to miss the 2017 breeding season, the chestnut was given a clean bill of health later last year and, on Feb. 26, had his first mare confirmed in [...]

Phoenix Thoroughbred III's Mourinho (Super Saver) suffered a severe injury in a Monday morning workout at Santa Anita and was subsequently euthanized, trainer Bob Baffert confirmed to the TDN via text message Monday afternoon. As originally reported by Daily Racing Form, Mourinho suffered a sesamoid fracture in a front leg while working in company with [...]

No matter how you slice it, March is a busy time in Ocala. While an outside observer might surmise that the week before the OBS March Sale represents a calm before the storm of sorts, a quick chat with any consignor of 2-year-olds quickly sets the record straight that it is anything but that. During [...]

Trainer Rusty Arnold had a weight removed from his shoulders Tuesday when he received notice that Kentucky stewards will rescind a pair of ractopamine positives from the 2016 Kentucky Downs meet. Arnold had been mulling his appeal options through the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) after a 90-day suspension was issued last week, but had [...]

Trainer Martin Wolfson has been ruled off the Gulfstream Park property due to his inability to meet financial obligations. As first reported by Daily Racing Form, the ruling was issued by track management after the veteran trainer was unable to adequately pay for the care of his horses in recent months, general manager Billy Badgett [...]

A mainstay near the top of the Fair Grounds trainer standings, Michael Stidham will make full use of the track's lucrative stakes-laced card Saturday, sending out two promising sons of Candy Ride (Arg) in the GIII Mineshaft H. and GII Risen Star S. Godolphin's Cedartown has elevated himself to the status of a stable star [...]

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest bank and largest credit card issuer in the United States with more than 80 million active credit cardholder accounts, has begun approving credit card deposit transactions with licensed and regulated advance deposit wagering companies (ADWs) within the country. Because many banks do not accept transactions that involve gambling, potential [...]

In the post-race press conference for the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational, Gulfstream Park track announcer Pete Aiello characterized Saturday's event as “innovative and exciting,” and anyone in attendance for the 12-race card would be hard-pressed to refute that assertion. While the richest race in the world is a novel concept in its own right, [...]