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Monmouth Park Release —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Thirty-three horses were nominated to the Grade 1, $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes, with Monmouth Park’s signature race on July 18 offering the added inducements of points for the Kentucky Derby and “Win and You’re In” status for...

By Diantha Brazzell —- LONE STAR PARK FINALIZES A REVISED STAKES SCHEDULE FOR 2020 THOROUGHBRED MEET GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (Thursday, June 4, 2020) – The 2020 Thoroughbred Racing Season was to begin April 18 for a 44-day run, but due to the covid-19 pandemic, was...

By Michael Chamberlain —- LOUISIANA LEGENDS NIGHT ON JULY 4 AND “SHINE” YOUNG FUTURITIES ON AUGUST 29 OPELOUSAS, LA – Evangeline Downs is returning to racing on Friday, June 5 with the first of 50 live racing nights featuring a nine-race program. The season had originally...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Hot Springs, Ark. (Monday, June 1, 2020) – Oaklawn is pleased to announce the promotion of Jason Milligan to Vice President of Racing. Milligan, who has been employed by Oaklawn for nearly 26 years, will assume the position immediately. “We are so happy...

DMTC News —- 38 Del Mar Stakes Worth More Than $5.5 Million Set This Summer; Shared Belief Stakes to Offer Kentucky Derby Points Del Mar will conduct its 81st summer racing season between July 10 and September 7 featuring a 38-race stakes schedule offering more than $5.5...

By Kevin Kerstein —- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Thursday, May 28, 2020) – For more than three decades the Klein Family Racing Stable has been synonymous with success at Churchill Downs. On Saturday, the current patriarch of the family, Richard, hopes that his family’s homebred Break...

DMTC – News From the Wire —- The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced today its intention to begin the 2020 summer race meet on July 10 and employ a three-day-a-week race schedule pending the approval of the California Horse Racing Board at its June 11 meeting....

By Amy Gregory —- LEXINGTON, KY (May 27, 2020) – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Race Dates Committee today approved Keeneland’s request to conduct a spectator-free, five-day Summer Meet, to be held Wednesday, July 8 through Sunday, July 12. “Keeneland appreciates the...

By Kevin Kerstein —- WALSH ANXIOUSLY AWAITING MAXFIELD’S RETURN IN SATRUDAY’S $150,000 MATT WINN IMPORTANT NOTE: To download video interviews from trainers Brendan Walsh and Greg Foley, visit: https://we.tl/t-AKTEoMI2rl. Please credit: Churchill Downs LOUISVILLE, Ky....

By Keith McCalmont —- NYRA announces stakes schedule for 25-day Belmont Park spring/summer meet ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that live racing, to be conducted without spectators, will return on Wednesday, June 3, at...