Horse Racing News

For more than a decade, the acquisition of high-priced claimers helped trainer Mike Mitchell win some of the biggest races of his career.

Due to excessive heat, Belmont Park has canceled its scheduled nine-race live racing program for Wednesday.

Trainer Blane Schvaneveldt, who won nearly 4,000 races and handled such quarter horse champions as Refrigerator and Dash for Speed, has died. He was 76.

Jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. has been sentenced to 2&frac12 years in prison in a cocaine-possession case that unfolded a few blocks from New York's Saratoga Race Course.

If Speed Demon is to pull a mild upset Saturday in the Grade 3 Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs, he most likely will have to pay closer attention to business than in his last start.

The last three months of Cozi Rosie's career have been geared toward Saturday's $250,000 American Oaks on the turf at Hollywood Park.

Not Bourbon's popular win in the 2008 Queen's Plate was certainly memorable for Roger Attfield, because it was his eighth triumph in Canada's best-known race, a milestone that put him in a tie for the trainer with the most Plate victories.

It's boy vs. girl at Sandown Park on Saturday when Twice Over and Dar Re Mi go toe-to-toe in the $750,000 Eclipse Stakes.

Johnny Sellers, who rode Carry Back to victory in the 1961 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame in 2007, died early Friday morning in an Arkansas nursing home, according to his son Mark.

Step by step, trainer Todd Pletcher stretched out Discreetly Mine from six furlongs in January to the Kentucky Derby at 1 1/4 miles on the first Saturday in May.