Loveberry on Chunk of Gold, Rider’s Second in ’23 Derby – Video –

Jockey Luis Saez, unseated in the second race April 8 at Keeneland after his mount, Fateful Lightning , bumped with another horse in midstretch, escaped serious injury and could possibly ride as early as April 9, according to his agent Kiaran McLaughlin. “I just heard the doctor say all good, but he said Luis will be sore…

Flavien Prat, the reigning Eclipse Award-winner as Outstanding Jockey, earned his first riding title at a New York Racing Association meet when posting 43 wins at the Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet at Aqueduct Racetrack that ran from May 1 through July 6. Statistics for the meet included the five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival and…

After a 10-year absence, veteran jockey Martin Garcia is headed back to the Kentucky Derby (G1). He is set to ride Citizen Bull , last year’s champion 2-year-old male, for trainer Bob Baffert in the 151st Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs May 3. “It’s a dream come true,” said Garcia, a 40-year-old native of…

May 3, 2025 10:00 AM 3:33 Trainer Brad Cox is amazed that Good Cheer has managed to stay unbeaten through seven career starts after her victory in the May 2 Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs. Despite the growing target on her back, the trainer said he’s not feeling…

While sire Not This Time   is turning heads at a dizzying rate with his racetrack progeny, Sibelius , a son from his first crop, is poised to bring his father additional notoriety at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover. The four-day event commences Oct. 8 at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington and features off-the-track Thoroughbreds showing…

Trainer Michelle Elliott has been based at Horseshoe Indianapolis since she switched from the world of prepping young horses for sale to opening a racing stable in 2017. She has watched every year as others, most from out of state, compete in Indiana’s signature races: the $300,000 Indiana Derby (G3) and $200,000 Indiana Oaks (G3),…