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Though Wet Paint has not traveled beyond nine furlongs, Banahan said he is confident she can flourish over the added ground.

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher could have as many as three chances to secure his fifth win in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama

Quirky China: a woman was shocked she would be charged extra for taking a second shower or bath at a hotel, and police received an emergency call about someone under a woman’s bed after a small earthquake.

Gross receipts exceeded $20 million for the second consecutive year at the Fasig-Tipton NY Bred Yearlings Sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

After a promising opening night which showed substantial gains over last year’s figures in average sale price and median price, the numbers at Fasig-Tipton’s NY-bred yearling sale went in the other direction at Monday’s closing session. The average price of $92,462 represented a decline of 13.6% over last year’s figure for closing night. Forty-seven percent […]

1st-$136,000, Maiden Special Weight, Two-Year Old Fillies and Maidens, Five and One Half Furlongs (Turf) #3 BUNDCHEN (2/1): Scratched out of Wednesday’s 6th Race to run in this one for Three Chimneys and Wesley Ward. The likely post-time favorite — and with good cause — in this Gun Runner baby’s first race back in the […]

WASHINGTON—Coming under fire for its unethical use of African Americans as test subjects, the U.S. government has faced criticism after revelations emerged this week regarding its decades-long Whoopee Cushion Project, which tested new pranks on Black people. “Beginning in the 1930s, federal authorities sanctioned a…

Keeneland’s 80th annual September Yearling Sale, a globally essential marketplace for Thoroughbred racing prospects, has cataloged 4,194 horses for a total of 12 sessions to be held Monday, Sept. 11 through Saturday, Sept. 23.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Becky’s Joker was overlooked when she made her career debut a winning one three weeks ago in the Schuylerville Stakes. That won’t be the case Sunday afternoon when the daughter of Practical Joke looks for her second graded stakes victory in as many attempts in the Grade 3, $200,000 Adirondack at […]

She does it all on her own and with her ears up. She’s happy to train and her works are well within herself.”