Horse Racing News

Test of Faith, a winner of 14 of 16 starts last season, is harness racing's Horse of the Year.

Mark Todd, a two-time Olympic champion in equestrian and now a notable racehorse trainer, has temporarily lost his training license pending an investigation into a video showing him striking a horse with a branch.

An attorney for Bob Baffert believes the trainer and Medina Spirit "will be fully exonerated" after stating to Kentucky racing stewards that the colt's failed drug test for a steroid resulted from a prescribed topical salve rather than an injection.

A necropsy on 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit showed no definitive cause of death, the California Horse Racing Board announced Friday.

Knicks Go won Horse of the Year at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night, receiving 228 out of a possible 235 first-place votes.

Forbidden Kingdom beat a trio of runners trained by Bob Baffert to win the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths on Saturday at Santa Anita.

The New York Racing Association announced its plans to reconstruct the historic Wilson Chute at Saratoga Race Course, which will allow one-mile races to be run on the well-known main dirt track.

Under the Stars, a 3-year-old filly trained by Bob Baffert, scored a three-quarter length victory in Saturday's $200,000 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita.

The Belmont Stakes, the third and final leg of horse racing's Triple Crown, is moving from NBC to FOX Sports as part of an eight-year deal beginning in 2023.

Billy Turner, who trained Seattle Slew to a sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont stakes in 1977, has died at age 81.