With the 2025 U.S. Triple Crown season completed, the focus of the horse racing world shifts from Saratoga Race Course to across the pond for one of the most prestigious events on the annual calendar.

But this 157th edition of “The Test of the Champion” is not the typical experience for Pletcher. After training a long list of the top contenders in the final jewel of the Triple Crown, on June 7 at ...

America’s Best Racing has launched a monthly series to celebrate women in racing, explore the challenges they face in what has been a male-dominated industry, and highlight their achievements. After ...

The museum added the Patrons of the Turf Gallery in 1957 and then a third wing, which became the home of the Hall of Fame, in 1979. For decades, the museum was open only during Saratoga’s annual ...

The culmination of horse racing’s Triple Crown will have a unique feel once again in 2025, as the 157 th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets is set to run at Saratoga Race Course on June 7. The $2 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 28, 2025) – The Breeders’ Cup, one of Thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious international festivals, has named Keeneland Race Course in Lexington and Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., ...

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. enjoyed a standout Memorial Day, notching stakes victories at both Santa Anita Park and Lone Star Park.In California at Santa Anita, he teamed up with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr.

Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association () Top Thoroughbred Poll.Week 17 of the 2025 NTRA ...

The $2 million, Grade 1 Preakness held at 1 3/16 miles on dirt stands as the second leg of U.S. horse racing’s Triple Crown for 3-year-olds, following the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve ...

After having watched the replays of the most recent races of all nine Preakness entrants, I believe Goal Oriented is the one most likely to succeed. Bob Baffert won his first Preakness in 1997 with ...

Now, organizers are focused on the future and what built the Preakness in the first place: racing, local flavor, and community pride. While there’s still some apprehension about what comes next, ...

Origin Story. Gov. Oden Bowie had such a good time at an 1868 dinner party given by Milton Sanford that he decided to commemorate the occasion with the promise to build a racetrack for a stakes named ...