But the Whitney is the star stakes attraction of the weekend, with eight millionaires among its cast of 10—though one, ...

The field of older horses for the Whitney also includes 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic champion Sierra Leone and 2025 Pegasus ...

Garden City’s Junior Alvarado continued his amazing year with another big stakes win aboard Sovereignty. Saturday’s victory in the Jim Dandy, added to the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, keeps the ...

Aug. 3 1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths on the 2-mile course. 1936 — American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the ...

Drawing the No. 5 post, Sierra Leone is the 2-1 second choice under jockey Flavien Prat. Fierceness, the 9-5 favorite, will ...

Trainer Chad Brown is deploying some interesting tactics in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga. Brown entered the pair of Sierra Leone, l ...

Sovereignty’s victory over an ultra-game Baeza in the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) set up the tantalizing possibility of another ...

Hirsch is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge race for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Also this weekend, Ellis Park hosts Kentucky Downs ...

Smarty Jones is remembered, even revered, in racing jurisdictions other than Arkansas. It wasn't just at Oaklawn that his greatness was appreciated; otherwise, he might be on the outside looking in ...

Trainer Todd Pletcher will send out 2023 Two-Year-Old Champion Fierceness and the uber-talented Mindframe to lead a field of ...

Tizway entered the 2011 Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap from a sharp score in the one-mile Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap in May at Belmont Park. Though the ...

Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby has shipped a pair of serious contenders for next Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer over 1 1/2-miles of the ...