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By Kevin Kilroy —- Friday’s Race Card Cancelled at Fair Grounds NEW ORLEANS (Dec. 5, 2025) — Due to an ongoing interruption of water service, Friday’s live racing card at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots has been canceled. The water main break in the neighborhood of...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Fair Grounds Introduces Crescent City 6 for 2025–26 Meet NEW ORLEANS (Nov. 18, 2025) – Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots will launch a new 20-cent minimum Pick 6 wager, the Crescent City 6, when the track opens its 2025–26 Thoroughbred meet on...

NTRA Top Thoroughbred Polls – November 4, 2025 Sovereignty has won five of six starts in 2025, including three Grade 1 races. The Into Mischief colt’s most recent start was a win in the Grade 1 DraftKings Travers Stakes in August (shown above), which followed wins in the Kentucky...

From Tom Law —- Nelson Avenue shows grit in Parx Dirt Mile victory It took a while, but Nelson Avenue finally got back to the winner’s circle. All it took was a return to Parx Racing. The 6-year-old gelding, owned by Photos Finish and trained by Jorge Abreu, won Saturday’s...

By Chris Ho —- RACING FORWARD | SEPTEMBER 2025   TRANSITION TO OAKLAWN’S RACING WAGERING STAFF Zack Gillham Oaklawn recently announced a key leadership transition within its Racing and Wagering operations. Zack Gillham has been promoted to Vice President of Racing...

By Rick Francis —- NBC PHOTO Thoroughbred racing’s 156th edition of the “Midsummer Derby”, the Grade 1 Travers Stakes, once again features a classic winner in Soverenignty, champion of the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. However, historic Saratoga Race...

By Pat McKenna —- Statement from the Stewards regarding Race 12 on Saturday at Saratoga SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Saturday’s final race at Saratoga Race Course [Race 12], which was scheduled and carded at 1 1/8-miles on the Mellon Turf Course, was instead contested at 1...

By David Joseph —- Angelo Lieto Photo Implementation Has Something to Prove in Saturday’s Smile Sprint HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Although installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $75,000 Smile Sprint, Ken Ramsey’s Implementation still has something to prove in...

By Chris Ho —- Oaklawn Mourns the Loss of Hall of Fame Trainer D. Wayne Lukas Monday, June 30, 2025 HOT SPRINGS, AR – Oaklawn Jockey Club joins the racing world in mourning the passing of Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a legend whose contributions to the sport—and to...

By Tom Luicci —- TOM’S MAGIC HEADED TO KING’S PLATE AT WOODBINE ON AUG. 16 AFTER WINNING SATURDAY’S TALE OF THE CAT STAKES OCEANPORT, N.J. – With his impressive victory in Saturday’s $102,000 Tale of the Cat Stakes at Monmouth Park, Tom’s Magic may have just run his way...