Brad Free is based in Southern California covering Santa Anita, Del Mar and Los Alamitos. He joined Daily Racing Form in 1992 and is the author of "Handicapping 101: Finding the Right Horses and ...

Rick Dutrow already has one horse headed for the Wood Memorial, but the trainer is considering getting McAfee to that race as well. Sovereignty, unraced since winning the Street Sense Stakes on ...

Rain impacted Sunday’s card, but it hardly put a damper on the first Belmont Stakes Racing Festival held at Saratoga Race Course.

The Road to the Kentucky Derby Series that determines preferences for horses getting into the Derby starting gate has been tweaked this year to award a lower total ...

To achieve his first win in nearly three years, the 7-year-old There Goes Harvard showed an old running style. He set the pace in Saturday’s Grade 3 San Marcos Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf at ...

It was closer than expected, but heavily favored Sand Devil remained unbeaten with a neck victory over National Identity in Saturday’s $121,250 Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds ...

Fresh from Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) success last week, Luke Ferraris continued a barnstorming season with victory on Mr Ascendency in the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Tsun Yip Handicap (1650m) at ...

With the dirt experiment quickly over, it will be back to the turf for stakes-placed Ready for Peace when he takes on seven other 3-year-olds in Sunday's co-featured fourth race.

The Sonoma County Fair will not conduct a summertime race meeting in Santa Rosa, Calif., this year, an expected setback for California racing.

Trainer Brian Lynch and owner Victoriam Farm LLC swept Gulfstream Park's annual five-furlong turf sprint series for fillies and mares a year ago. They'll try to take a step toward repeating that ...

Willowtime, who was runner-up to T C I for the 2023 O’Brien Award for best 2-year-old male trotter to compete in Canada, will make his U.S. debut for new owner Tom Pollack on Saturday (Feb. 8 ...

Victory Avenue appears about ready to make his much anticipated return after working an easy half-mile punctuated by a long gallop with jockey Javier Castellano aboard.