Arena Racing Company (ARC), the largest racing group in Britain, and 1/ST, who maintains a large portfolio of tracks in North America, will team to offer new opportunities for some of their feature races, the organizations announced in a joint release Tuesday. The winners of certain races at Doncaster will be offered free entry into [...]

Delaware Park will start its races an hour earlier Wednesday, while Horseshoe Indianapolis has canceled its live racing card for the day due to forecasted excessive heat at both tracks. Delaware Park's first post time Wednesday will be 11:30 a.m.  Additionally, there will be approximately a half hour in between each race on the eight-race [...]

Eleven stakes races cumulatively worth $3,575,000 will be offered during the 14-day September Meet at Churchill Downs, which runs Sept. 12-29. The 12th annual September Meet will offer several opportunities to prep for the Nov. 1-2 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Del Mar, led by the $500,000 GII Lukas Classic for 3-year-olds and up at [...]

Dubai Millennium (GB) (Seeking the Gold), arguably the greatest horse to ever carry the Godolphin silks, has won a hotly contested three-week public vote for which 'Turn of the Century' horse should be inducted to the QIPCO Hall of Fame. In so doing, he was chosen over Daylami (Ire), Giant's Causeway and Montjeu (Ire). Dubai [...]

Team Kenny McPeek–including jockey Brian Hernandez and exercise rider Danny Ramsey–will be honored along with the Backside Learning Center, turf writer Sean Clancy and broadcaster Laffit Pincay III during the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters' 64th Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Del Mar, California. The NTWAB Annual Awards Dinner is the organization's [...]

Trainer Ed Dunlop has been handed a one-year disqualification-suspended for a year-after his Lucidity tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine at Brighton last year.  The source of the positive test remains unknown and the BHA attaches no blame to the trainer.  Given the disqualification period has been suspended, Dunlop, who has held a training [...]

A tilt at the Qipco Champion Stakes is on the agenda for Calandagan (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) after his valiant second to a “true champion” City Of Troy in the Juddmonte International at York. Trained by Francis-Henri Graffard, Calandagan proved he belonged at the highest level in chasing home City Of Troy, and now connections are [...]

Australian Group 1-winning sprinter Marabi (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) topped the Magic Millions August Virtual Sale when selling for $2.4 million to Arrowfield Stud. Marabi made a huge impression on the racetrack winning her first seven starts culminating with victory in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate. She is a half-sister to Group 1 Victorian [...]

Royal Ascot winner Rashabar (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) is set for a step up in trip on his next start as connections of Brian Meehan's colt have identified the G1 National Stakes at the Curragh as a likely target for the shock 80-1 winner of the Coventry Stakes.  Rashabar came close to providing Meehan [...]

A Trio of European horses running at Kentucky Downs this weekend hit the track for the first time after clearing quarantine at Churchill Downs Monday morning. Bellum Justum (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Stromberg (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), who came over for Saturday's $3.1 million DK Horse Nashville Derby, and 2-year-old Black Forza (Complexity), slated [...]

His grandfather managed studs for the late Queen Elizabeth II and his father has a notable track record as a bloodstock agent, so for Conor Norris a life in racing was perhaps inevitable. But he has gone his own way to a degree, and combines his role on Darley's nominations team with his hobby of [...]

Parx Racing and the Pennsylvania Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (PAHBPA) have launched a new joint venture to provide a free equine shuttle service from Penn National Racecourse to Parx Racing. The shuttle service, which will be available on live racing days at Parx, is capable of transporting up to 10 horses. The program will [...]