The 2025 Remington Park Thoroughbred season begins Friday, Aug. 8 and features regular major races in the grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby and the $300,000 Remington Springboard Mile. A new addition this season, is the first major turf sprint stakes in track history. The $250,000 Great West Turf Sprint will be included on the undercard…
Santa Anita Park concluded its six-month 2024-25 Winter-Spring season June 15 by posting encouraging increases in handle, field size, on-track attendance, and safety. Santa Anita Park began its 90th year on Dec. 26, 2024, with the third-largest opening day handle in its history. The momentum continued to build with total all-sources handle for the season,…
Increasing online betting taxes would devastate British racing, ministers were warned June 16. A hard-hitting report by a cross-party group of politicians will demand that action is taken to secure the future of the sport as it faces a ‘triple whammy’ of financial threats caused by government policies. They are headed by Treasury plans to…
Frankie Dettori is set to be in attendance at Royal Ascot this week as a racegoer—but the legendary rider has not ruled out a final hurrah at the meeting in the future. Dettori, who announced he was filing for bankruptcy during Cheltenham Festival week in March, has been riding in the United States since 2024…
Jockey Ryan Moore, an ambassador for the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s World Pool, previews his rides on the June 17 opening day of Royal Ascot 2025: Royal Ascot is all setup to be a great spectacle this year. The weather forecast is good, the fields look high-quality and competitive, and there are challengers from across…
Panama, consisting of jockeys Marcelino Pedroza Jr., Santo Sanjur, and Arcello Flaco, scored the win among 12 countries in the 11th annual World Jockey Challenge June 14 at Horseshoe Indianapolis. The event was part of “Pups and Ponies” raising funding and awareness for Canine Castaways of Shelby County. Flaco kicked off the night for Panama…
Dubai Racing Carnival and Dubai World Cup day form will be strongly represented throughout all five days of Royal Ascot, which begins June 17. There are eight group 1s across the week, the first of which is the opening Queen Anne Stakes. Cairo, second in the Al Rashidiya (G2) at Meydan Racecourse in December, takes…
Airdrie Stud has announced that Mystik Dan , winner of the 150th Kentucky Derby (G1) in 2024, is set to stand stud at the Midway, Ky. farm upon the conclusion of his racing career. A three-time graded stakes winner with earnings to date of more than $4.4 million, Mystik Dan has been campaigned throughout his career by…
Trainer Doug O’Neill picked up two wins at Santa Anita Park June 15 and with them achieved the latest milestone in his career—3,000 wins. The victory by Hero Or Zero in the eighth race at Santa Anita, a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds, secured the mark for the Southern California-based trainer. Earlier in Sunday’s card,…
Riding from far off the pace is not usually recommended. But for Nitti , lately, that has become a recipe for success. The latest example is the June 15 $100,000 San Juan Capistrano Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park. After having to navigate past eight other horses in his last start, a 1 1/8-mile allowance optional claimer…
