Archive for the ‘Horse Racing History’ Category

Sweltering heat hampers summer horse racing

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — (AP) Rafael Hernandez was red hot – not just because he rode Electric Stride to Fairmount Park\’s winner\’s circle, the jockey\’s third win in as many races that afternoon, but because the temperature and humidity together made it feel as if it was 105 degrees.

Horse racing tracks are closely watched in sweltering heat

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — (AP) Rafael Hernandez was red hot – not just because he rode Electric Stride to Fairmount Park\’s winner\’s circle, the jockey\’s third win in as many races that afternoon, but because the temperature and humidity together made it feel as if it was 105 degrees.

Glorious Goodwood: Horse racing\’s garden party

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Only one sporting event in Britain has achieved the PR coup of having \”Glorious\” attached permanently to its name. The five-day festival of horse racing on the Sussex Downs at the end of July is known to all inside and outside the sport as \”Glorious Goodwood.\”

Horse racing is on hiatus at Western Montana Fair

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Horse racing has been a stop-and-go contest at the Western Montana Fair for the past five years.

Horse Racing: Dudes finish 1-2 for Bob Baffert

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Gold Cup: First Dude holds off Game on Dude to win spot in next November’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs

Sports Legend Revealed: Did a side bet lead to horse racing\’s first U.S. Triple Crown winner?

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

The story of an amazing bet between mobster Arnold Rothstein and horse owner John Kenneth Leveson (JKL) Ross. The story of an amazing bet between mobster Arnold Rothstein and horse owner John Kenneth Leveson (JKL) Ross.

Winning art projects celebrate horse racing history

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Installation of the winning public art project in the Dundas Driving Park should not be affected by an upcoming construction effort to improve drainage.

Scandals in horse racing numerous, with some becoming stuff of legend

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Chicken blood, roosters as jockeys?

Triple Crown Billionaires: Meet Horse Racing\’s Richest People

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Like any high-risk, high-stakes activity, horse racing draws its share of the super-rich, who own st

Triple Crown billionaires: Meet horse racing\’s richest

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Sports speculators are gearing up for this Saturday\’s Belmont Stakes, the last of the annual Triple Crown…