Inbreeding has little effect on mare’s early pregnancy loss, a study from the Royal Veterinary College and Cornell University has shown. However, inbreeding does affect mid and late-term pregnancy loss in mares, reports Equine Science Update.
Foals that are produced using ovum pick-up (OPU) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) will no longer be eligible for registration with the Swedish Warmblood Association in Sweden beginning March of 2025.
When Emerald Downs begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4, a familiar voice returns to the announcer’s booth high atop the grandstand. After a two-year hiatus, Tom Harris is back at Emerald Downs where he occupied the booth previously from 2018-2021.
Bregman Family Racing, WWBD and Edge Racing’s three-time stakes winning No Nay Mets (IRE) headlines a field of 12 3-year-olds plus three also-eligibles entered Wednesday for the ninth running of the $300,000 William Walker (Listed) going 5 ½ furlongs on the Matt Winn Turf Course on Champions Day at Churchill Downs.
Hastings Racecourse is thrilled to announce the opening of its 2024 racing season on Saturday, April 27, at 2:30 pm PDT with a new schedule and some horseplayer-focused changes.
Headed by the renamed $2.5 million Nashville Derby (Grade 3) on Aug. 31, Kentucky Downs will stage six races worth at least $2 million apiece, including supplements for registered Kentucky-breds, at this year’s seven-day race meet.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB) is pleased to announce Thoroughbred breeder and owner Vivien Malloy will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the New York-bred program.
Susumu Fujita’s undefeated Forever Young (JPN) worked six furlongs in 1:19.60 over a fast track Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs. With jockey Ryusei Sakai aboard, Forever Young posted fractions of :14.80, :28.80, :42.60, :55.20, 1:19.60 and out seven furlongs in 1:33,60.
The start of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2024 Two-Year-Olds in Training & Horses of Racing Age Sale and Under Tack Show have each been shifted forward one day to allow additional travel and inspection time for those attending Belmont Stakes weekend held at Saratoga this year from June 6 to June 9.
Charles E. Moore, Executive Director of the Wyoming Gaming Commission, was honored earlier this spring with the "2024 Len Foote Award" from the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI).
The Kentucky Derby prep schedule is complete, so we'll be taking detailed looks at the horses that could fill the Kentucky Oaks starting gate with Andrew Champagne of Raketech and The Saratogian's Pink Sheet.
The Thoroughbred racing industry joined forces on Sunday, April 21 for the sixth annual PDJF Telethon to raise over $430,000 for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF).
Spooked by the sound of concrete falling off a walkway at a nearby construction site, a group of military horses bolted and dropped their riders before
With opening day of the 2024 Thoroughbred season set for this Saturday, Woodbine Entertainment will debut a new infield LED video board at Woodbine Racetrack to enhance the in-venue experience for all guests.
“Alydar is moving swiftly on the outside … at the top of the stretch, Alydar moves by very easily, takes the lead, opens it out to 3 ½ lengths … we have
After a near-unbeaten campaign, Touchuponastar was voted 2023 Louisiana-bred Horse of the Year by the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association's board of directors.
Manny Franco’s total of nine wins from 20 mounts at Aqueduct including a listed stakes race was nothing short of exceptional and led the panel of racing experts to vote Franco Jockey of the Week April 15 through April 21.
Justify, the champion 2-year-old sire in North America and sire of Australian Group 2 winner Storm Boy, won’t be returning to stand at Coolmore Australia this spring and will remain at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky where he will cover a select book of mares to Southern Hemisphere time late in the year.
As fans and media alike prepare to get their first looks at Kentucky Derby hopefuls in the coming days, you might notice some unusual coloring on the hooves of top contender Fierceness, the reigning 2-year-old champion and winner of the Grade 1 Florida Derby in his last start.
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program is excited to host its 7th Annual Open Barn & BBQ, presented by Seidman Stables, LLC on Thursday, April 25 from 4:00 p.m.
Saturday proved to be a banner day for two of the sport’s premier athletes, while the human side of the equation produced equally stellar heroics. At the
What race for 3-year-olds has produced the most Kentucky Derby winners? If the past is prologue, recent history might help us solve the annual handicapping
America’s racing champions have come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, from the burnished copper magnificence of Man o’ War and Secretariat, the near-black beauty of the free-running Ruffian, the ordinary bay of John Henry, and the towering powerhouse that was Forego.
The Daily Racing Form reported Tuesday that Frankie Dettori has picked up the Kentucky Derby mount aboard Society Man, last-out second-place finisher in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial.
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