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Updated: 12:23 PM CST March 12, 2021 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – President and General Manager Marty Schack announced this week that longtime THV11 storyteller and investigative reporter Rolly Hoyt is joining the evening anchor team.  Rolly, a native of Massachusetts, has lived in Arkansas for more than a decade.  He is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston and has worked in journalism for more than 20 years.   When Rolly started at THV11, he produced newscasts before begi...

Flashback: Ranking the 5 greatest Rebel Stakes winners By Keeler Johnson / Special to HRN March 9, 2021 3:02pm Oaklawn Park’s Grade 2 Rebel Stakes dates back to 1961, but it wasn’t until the 2000s that the 1 1/16-mile Kentucky Derby prep race truly rose to prominence. The roster of recent winners reads like a who’s who of Triple Crown stars, champions and Grade 1 winners, and the 2020 renewal carried a purse of $1 million — 10 times higher than the $100,000 pot up for gra...

Todd Pletcher, American Pharoah Headline 2021 Hall Of Fame Ballot Sponsored by: Trainer Todd Pletcher Six racehorses, three trainers, and one jockey account for the 10 finalists that will comprise the National Museum of Racings 2021 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the Museums Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are racehorses American Pharoah (first year of eligibility), Blind Luck, Game On Dude, Havre de Grace, Kona Gold, and Rags to Riches; trainers Christophe Clement...

Pletcher, American Pharoah are Racing Hall of Fame finalists | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Trainer Todd Pletcher speaks to the media in the winners circle at Saratoga Race Course in 2015. Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — There supposedly is no such thing as a sure thing in horse racing, but this sure looks like one. Trainer Todd Pletcher was named Wednesday as a finalist, along with American Pharoah, for induction into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame, and perhaps the o...

Sam-Son Farm To Be Recognized With Special Sovereign Award Sponsored by: The Sovereign Award Sam-Son Farm will be presented with the Special Sovereign Award during the 46th Annual Sovereign Awards Virtual Ceremony, which will be held in April. Selected by the Jockey Club of Canadas Stewards, the Special Sovereign Award honors those who have accomplished outstanding achievements and made a significant contribution to the Thoroughbred Industry in Canada. Over the past five decades, Sam-...

Las Vegas There was a time not so long ago when the National Horseplayers Championship was an immovable fixture the week before the Super Bowl. “In hindsight I’m happy it wasn’t held this past weekend,” said Keith Chamblin, chief operating officer of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. “We may have had some cancellations because of the storm in the northeast.” Weather is the least of the NTRA’s challenges in staging the nation’s biggest tournament for racehorse handica...

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association had big plans for the 50th anniversary of the Eclipse Awards. However, its lengthy list of ideas to celebrate the half-century of the best in Thoroughbred racing and breeding was tossed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Put a large group of people together in an awards ceremony setting? Forget about it. Plan B, producing a “virtual show” with the entire program being shot and produced in advance and shown as if it were a live event, was one of many ...

Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Authentic was honored as Horse of the Year at the 50th annual Eclipse Awards on Thursday night. The ceremony was held virtually because of the...

Sponsored by: Franks Rockette wins the G2 Gallant Bloom Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said he has no long-term 2021 goals for multiple Grade 2 winner Franks Rockette, adding its simply one step at a time. That first step begins with the $150,000 American Beauty Stakes for older female sprinters Saturday at Oaklawn. The 6-furlong race marks a homecoming of sorts for Franks Rockette, a homebred for prominent North Little Rock, Ark., businessman Frank Fletcher who finished second in the...

Moquett Emotional After Whitmore Named Champion Sprinter Of 2020 Sponsored by: Three-time Bill Shoemaker Award winner Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Whitmore following the Breeders Cup Sprint Oaklawns top male sprinter last year can now be called the best nationally, too. The ultra-popular Whitmore, a seven-time Oaklawn stakes winner co-owned and trained by Ron Moquett of Hot Springs, was named the countrys champion male sprinter of 2020 during the 50th annual Eclipse Awards ceremony Thursday ...