Ron Flatter

Always a Runner and Counting Stars already have carved a nice pair of showdowns. This spring they traded wins over one another in the top races for 3-year-old fillies so far in 2026. They meet again Saturday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga.

There is a ritual to the Del Mar summer that goes beyond singing along with Bing before the first race and taking in the ocean sunset afterward. There are the betting trends that are dispensed annually.

Churchill Downs Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 49% of United Tote Co. from NYRA Content Management Solutions, a subsidiary of the New York Racing Association.

The formal line at Fairmount Park is that it is business as usual this summer, even after the decline and fall of Hawthorne made it the only horse-racing track left in Illinois.

In the collection of 3-year-old stakes these next few days at Saratoga, owner Lee Ackerley has two colts who may be poised to command notice this second half of the year.

Devine, Wilkes, Nicholson, Levitch discuss Arlington Million, Saratoga & $5 minimums.

Anyone who saw Burnham Square win last year’s Grade 1 Blue Grass might not have known it at the time. It was a curveball that interrupted a masterplan.

Om N Joy has taken Aggie Ordóñez on a 16-month ride of a lifetime.

Even though they have nowhere to run and no money to spend, Hawthorne Race Course executives applied for 2027 Thoroughbred and standardbred racing dates from the Illinois Racing Board, which offered few other details Tuesday.

Nearly a year after her last start brought her career record to 10-for-10, Silent Rule has been declared ready to race again this weekend. But where?