Danny Tudhope on Epic Poet

There’s been some debate as to whether this upcoming Nov. 1 edition of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) is the best since the series started in 1984. What goes without question is that the field of 10 pre-entered in America’s richest race is so deep and star-studded that gamblers will have a field day betting…

Matt Laurie is confident that doubting punters will see the real Treasurethe Moment when she strives to win him his first major in the Oct. 25 Cox Plate (G1) at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Treasurethe Moment—the Yulong homebred the sales companies didn’t want—became a sensation of last season but has been one of the stories of…

The Jockey Club Information Systems in association with the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities have published the 2025 International Cataloguing Standards Book, also known as The Blue Book. The book is produced annually and provides a listing of stakes races from each country that will be accorded Group/Graded or Listed status in sales catalogs using…

During Airdrie Stud founder and former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones’s lengthy illness, Bret Jones said he and his father would share joy riding across the farm. “When he was going through the memory issues that he had, one of the great things that we could always still do together was me driving through the farm…

Horse racing has seen sharp declines in most types of equine musculoskeletal fatalities, but reductions to one particular type of injury— the shoulder fracture—have been less dramatic.  Speaking before the California Horse Racing Board May 15, CHRB equine medical director Dr. Jeff Blea noted that the four musculoskeletal fatalities that occurred last month at California…

Jose Salinas, one of 13 trainers at Penn National Race Course cited for giving intra-articular injections within the stand-down periods prior to a race or workout, has been suspended for 60 days and fined $5,000. Salinas was cited for having a knee and both hocks of the 5-year-old gelding Zoomster injected with a corticosteroid three…