Ron Flatter

The federal judge hearing the Hawthorne Race Course bankruptcy case authorized subpoenas Wednesday for depositions and papers after Fairmount Park was accused of intimidating horsemen who might choose the struggling Chicagoland course over the southern Illinois track.

Bankruptcy judge in Hawthorne case OKs subpoenas to probe claims against Fairmount Park.

Rating horse of the year Sovereignty & rest of Triple Crown 2025 class vs. older horses.

It is hard to criticize the toughness of Rattle N Roll, especially as he is about to try, try again to beat Hit Show.

Bob Baffert will not have any starters in Belmont Stakes 2026, but he will have three of his Kentucky-based horses on a trailer Monday afternoon bound for tough tests at Saratoga.

Looking at the head-on view of Renegade breaking from post 1 in the Kentucky Derby is like watching an unavoidable car accident in one of those wait-for-it Instagram videos. After Irad Ortiz Jr. veered him one path outward, Litmus Test and Intrepido shoved him back three paths toward the inside rail.

On the way back to her hometown for Belmont Stakes 2026 on Saturday at Saratoga, Cherie DeVaux made a quietly triumphant return to Churchill Downs.

Two-time champion trainer Brad Cox might just as well erase last month’s Kentucky Derby from his memory if not for the lessons he and his horses would have learned from the disappointment.

They are the faces of the New York Racing Association on Fox Sports. Well, two of them are. The third spends more air time talking football, but he goes in with both hands on horses.

As big a surprise as Golden Tempo was in winning not just one but two Triple Crown races, he is poised to maintain a trend that has been rock solid for more than a half-century.