Horse Racing
It wasn't that long ago that "Virtual Horse Racing" amounted to tiny blips crawling across a TV screen, hooked up to a home video game-system
Horse Racing Betting Terms
Betting on US horse races is based on the Pari-mutuel system. The money staked on each bet type goes into a separate pool. The racetrack deducts a percentage of the pool, which contributes to expenses, prize money and Racing Association taxes. Depending of the track and the specific bet type, deductions
Horse Racing News
- Topics: Horse Racing's Triple Crown
The Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing is an annual series of three stakes races for three-year-old horses that takes place over a five-week period i... - Has America's White-Hot Hatred of Horses Killed HBO's Luck? (Yes. Yes It Has.)
HBO has already committed to a second season of the horse-racing drama Luck, which is good news for the type of person who prefers to watch TV and nev... - West: Older crop promises big racing season
Yes, this is going to be a special, even extraordinary, season. - Tapizar goes into Strub a heavy favorite
Game On Dude was less than sixteenth of a mile from winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs last November when jockey Chantal Sutherland sensed victory. - Rapid Redux to be honored Feb. 18 at Laurel
The Maryland Jockey Club will honor the connections of Rapid Redux on February 18. Rapid Redux has won 22 consecutive races, including a perfect 19-for-19 season a year ago and took home a pair of national awards last month. - Trainer Pletcher eyes another win in Sam Davis
Already with a slew of top 3-year-olds taking aim at the Triple Crown, Todd Pletcher will send out yet another prospect in the $250,000 Sam F. Davis, a race he has won four of the last six years. - Alpha looks strong for $200,000 Withers Stakes
Alpha opened his three-year-old season with a 2 1/2-length score in the January 7 Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct and will remain on the inner track for Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes. - Liaison, Rousing Sermon meet again in Robert B. Lewis
Separated by less than a length in two stakes at Hollywood Park last fall, Liaison and Rousing Sermon will renew acquaintance in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Robert B. Lewis at Santa Anita. - Prince of Wales's: Rewilding stuns So You Think
Under a relentless drive by Frankie Dettori, Godolphin's Rewilding overhauled So You Think within the shadow of the wire to claim a neck victory in the Group 1, $655,660 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot June 15.



