LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers (LOPE), a Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) accredited charity, announces a significant milestone in its educational outreach programs. In the first five months of 2025 alone, LOPE has served over 1,000 students and teachers across Texas through the organization’s innovative Horse Wise® curriculum, putting the program on track to reach 1,200…
As major renovations continue at Belmont Park, NYRA officials expressed steadfast confidence in the project’s completion by fall 2026 at a June 13 meeting of the New York State Franchise Oversight Board. The board met for a regularly scheduled meeting following a Friday morning announcement by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYRA that the Belmont Stakes…
Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look ahead at the N.Y.S.S. Cupecoy’s Joy Division Stakes at Belmont at the Big A and The Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth. Source link
Great Friends Stable has been selected by Thoroughbred Owners of California as the recipient of this year’s Horseracing Partnership Award. The annual award recognizes and celebrates co-ownerships and partnership entities within the horse racing community and is open to partnerships of all sizes from two and up. Nominated by Aaron Wilson, one of the partners,…
The New York Racing Association announced June 13 that the 14-day quarantine of Barn 85 at Saratoga Race Course has been lifted by the New York State Department of Agriculture. As a result, all horses stabled in Barn 85 are once again permitted to enter races and train with the general horse population. Barn 85…
Consignor Ciaran Dunne routinely says there is no hiding a good horse on the sale grounds. Sure enough, during the fourth day of the under tack show for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale, some promising members of Dunne’s Wavertree Stables consignment were anything but incognito. Amidst clear skies and…
Colin Keane will take his first group 1 ride as retained jockey in the Juddmonte silks in the June 15 Prix de Diane (French Oaks, G1) after Better Together featured among 12 fillies declared for the Chantilly Racecourse classic. Keane has taken up the role just in time for a host of important rides at Royal…
Father’s Day, Sunday June 15, marks the start of the mixed meet format at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, with a combination of Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racing on the schedule for the duration of the current live racing season through September 27. The transition to a mixed meet also kicks off a busy stretch…
By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_Keelerman Although it’s not a graded stakes, Saturday’s $175,000 Monomoy Girl S. at Churchill Downs might just be the best race of the weekend. The six-horse field is packed with talent. The entrants include: #1 Princess Aliyah (15-1), winner of the Valley Of…
Nebraska horseman James Ernest “Jim” Cranwell, who bred, owned, and raced multiple stakes winner Burning Memories, died June 11 at age 86. The following is an obituary prepared by his family James Ernest “Jim” Cranwell, 86, of St. Paul, Neb., away peacefully at his home on June 11. Services will be held June 17, at 10:30 a.m….
