Horse Racing News

Top jockey Julien Leparoux will be sidelined at least five more weeks with a spine injury suffered in a spill during a race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 14.

Monmouth Park got off to a rousing start on Saturday.

Two of the 10 horses expected to run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes here on June 5 put in half-mile workouts Saturday in New York.

Denise Boudrot, a pioneering female jockey with more than 1,000 victories and the first to win a major race meet title, died May 19 at her farm in Grafton, Vt., after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 57.

Queen of the Creek last started in an allowance race at Keeneland while Bay to Bay comes out of a the Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes there.

The California Horse Racing Board passed a motion on Thursday stating that Oak Tree Racing Association holds racing dates for five weeks this fall.

The New York-bred Nehantic Kat has rarely run a bad race when she has stepped into open company.

Reading between the lines, Telling surely needed his last race at Keeneland.

The New York Racing Association notified its employees on Thursday that it will close its three racetracks beginning June 9 if the association does not receive financial assistance from the state, the association said.

A week after their glamorous win in the Preakness Stakes with Lookin At Lucky, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Martin Garcia team together again Saturday at Hollywood Park with quite a bit less at stake.