HORSE RACING RUMORS & GOSSIP

One very lucky person spent a measly $2 and won $857,335.40 on a Kentucky Derby bet, correctly getting the winner of the top six races, also known as a Pick 6. Always Dreaming won by a mile, showing some serious stamina to pull ahead of the field by so much on the muddy track at Churchill Downs. He finished 2 3/4 lengths ahead of Lookin At Lee and 7 3/4 ahead of Battle of Midway...

The 143rd annual Kentucky Derby will take place this Saturday, in case you're wondering why all of your sports friends are now suddenly really into horse racing odds, mint juleps and patently absurd headwear. But there is another reason folks might want to tune in this weekend, as this year's race will feature Patch, a one-eyed underdog (underhorse?) who has quickly emerged as this...

The Triple Crown is the Holy Grail of horse racing and for good reason. While several horses have managed to two of the three Triple Crown races — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes — only 12 have been able to complete the trifecta. Here we chronicle those dozen horses, along with a baker's dozen that came close.

Harambe will never die. One of the great cultural icons of 2016, Harambe has now inspired the name of a racehorse that will be running at Churchill Downs next week. Social media alert: #Harambe (the Thoroughbred) makes his debut in race 3 next Wednesday at #ChurchillDowns. pic.twitter.com/E4S4l59QhT — Marty McGee (@DRFMcGee) November 18, 2016 Owner Muzeyyen Karabulut named...

Preakness Stakes day began on a tragic note as two horses died on Pimlico Race Course and a jockey suffered a broken collarbone on a rainy Saturday in Baltimore. The first incident occurred in the opening race of the day, as Homeboykris suddenly collapsed and died not long after winning the Preakness undercard’s first of four races on the day. After entering the race as a 9...

The horse racing Triple Crown is when a horse wins The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness Stakes and The Belmont Stakes in a single year. Can you name every Triple Crown winner in the history of the sport?

Can you name every winner of the Belmont Stakes since 1867? Note: There was no race in 1911 and 1912.

Can you name every horse to win the Kentucky Derby since 1875?

It pays to win. For American Pharoah, the 2015 American Triple Crown winner, this is quite a literal statement. According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, the now-retired race horse is set to make a fortune as a stud: American Pharoah will make $35M in the breeding shed this year. His stallion career began this morning https://t.co/jiVlijN4dO — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February...

American Pharoah may have lost out to Serena Williams for SI’s Sportsperson of the Year, but those angry horse racing fans will be much happier with The Associated Press, which named the horse’s Triple Crown win as the sports story of the year Thursday. That came from a vote of 82 editors and news directors across the U.S., who ranked their top five stories of the year (with...

If you’ve been a regular listener of Jim Rome, you’ll know that he has become a player in horse racing, owning all or partly owning shares in several champion horses. One of those was Shared Belief which beat 2014 Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome this year in the San Antonio Invitational Stakes as well as winning the San Anita Handicap. After recovering from a hip fracture...

Jockey Victor Espinoza will no doubt garner fame, recognition, and a lifetime of opportunities after guiding American Pharoah to the Triple Crown, but he is not necessarily seeing an immediate fortune. That’s because the jockey decided to donate his Belmont Stakes winnings to charity. In an article for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Steve Myrick explains that...Read More

By Gordon Dixon American Pharoah on Saturday became the 12th horse to capture the Triple Crown and first since 1978. Unsurprisingly, American Pharoah’s attempt at history was a big deal in Louisville, where he also won the Kentucky Derby last month. It was such a big deal that a minor league game in Louisville was stopped temporarily so everyone in the stadium could watch the...

By Vincent Frank American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, becoming the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. And it really wasn’t even that close: It was a wire-to-wire win for jockey Victor Espinoza, who becomes the oldest winner of the Triple Crown at the age of 43. Interestingly, American Pharoah becomes the first wire-to-wire winner at the Belmont...

By Larry Brown Jockey Victor Espinoza was elated and still in shock after winning the Triple Crown aboard American Pharoah on Saturday at the Belmont Stakes. NBC had a microphone on him and went live for his reaction after winning the race. The 43-year-old jockey, who probably did not know he was on live TV, had just completed the race and had a perfect reaction that was broadcast...

Aside from being a great sporting event, the Kentucky Derby is an event in and of itself. Attendees wear interesting hats. I have seen hats that have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous on Derby Day. There's food as well, like Derby Pie and the famous Mint Julip.

The Grand National is the most famous steeplechase in the world and the 2015 race at Aintree has the potential to be one of the most emotional in its history. Tony McCoy, who is on the verge of being crowned champion National Hunt jockey for the 20th time, is retiring at the end of the season. But, if he wins the Grand National on Shutthefrontdoor, he is planning to quit immediately...

The 141st running of the Kentucky Derby on May 2nd is a little over three weeks away. Many of the major Derby prep races have been run as of this writing. As most racing fans know, each race had a certain amount of Derby-qualifying points attached to it.

Today’s Cream Gorse Handicap race featured a surprise that no one would’ve expected. During the race, which took place in Leicester, an unidentified man ran onto the track during the final 100 yards—in an attempt to draw ten seconds of “fame.” He was lucky he wasn’t trampled. And he didn’t affect the outcome too much, either. Watch him run onto the track like an idiot...

This Saturday, June 7, 2014, at the famous Belmont Park racetrack, located in Elmont, NY, will be the 2014 edition of the Belmont Stakes. The race is also known as the Test of the Champions," as it is the only 3YO race, where these young horses run the entire 1 1/2 mile circumference of Belmont Park's oval.

It's a day meant for the craziest, wildest, and most outlandish hats to be worn and called stylish. It's day for the mass consumption of mint juleps; some of them out of ridiculously expensive cups (excuse me, chalices). It's a day for the most exciting and fastest two minutes in sports.I'm talking about the Run for the Roses--the Kentucky Derby!From Bleacher ReportAnd the winner...

With some 20 stakes races being run thorough out the country this Saturday, it was rather difficult to choose exactly which race should be our Horse Racing Race of the Week. I choose the 2014 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct in Queens, New York, where the unbeaten and untested Samraat will spearhead the field of eight and (just five minutes later) the 2014 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa...

The first major prep race for the 2014 Kentucky Derby takes place this Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the 2014 Holy Bull Stakes, which in turn, makes it our Horse Racing Race of the Week for this week. The one and one sixteenth miles, Grade: 2 race drew a full field of 11 and carries a purse of $400,000 with the enormously talented 2013 Nashua Stakes winner Cairo Prince listed as...

The road to the 2014 Kentucky Derby begins to gather momentum this weekend at Santa Anita where six newly turned three year olds will go post-ward Saturday afternoon in our Horse Racing Race of the Week, the Grade: 3, one mile, $100,000 Sham Stakes. Over the next several weeks the prep races for the Derby will snowball until hitting a crescendo in March and early April and, with�...