From Churchill Downs Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin successfully completed the first step in what could be a journey to Paris to run in the famed Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with a solid work under jockey Robby Albarado over the Matt Winn Turf Course on Tuesday at Churchill Downs. The 4-year-old son...

Rizzi’s Twist blew past Under Serviced and Jovanna and won the fifth race at Belmont Park on Saturday. Bruce Levine keeps rolling along and it has been a long roll through the Aqueduct winter, the spring at Belmont and summer on both side of the Hudson. Along the way, he has raised both eyebrows and...

Rick Dutrow trains 25 horses for Michael Dubb and his various partners as well as all the horses owned by IEAH Stable. Dubb plays the claiming game. IEAH owns Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, Benny the Bull, currently the nation’s leading sprinter, Kip Deville, the leading American turf...

Have we had enough yet? A horse trained by Rick Dutrow, the Darth Vader of racing, tests positive for twice the prescribed limit of clenbuterol in Kentucky. A Steve Asmussen-trained horse tests positive for lidocaine in Texas. Jeremy Rose slashes a mare across the eye in a race at Delaware Park and is...

Rick Dutrow, trainer of the best three year-old in America, has been notified that he’ll be suspended for 15 days by the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority for a drug offense. Again. Dutrow has a rap sheet that includes more than 30 pages of violations (not all of which are drug violations, to be...

In the minds of many Curlin is undoubtedly the world's best horse. But where does he rank on the list of all-time greats over the past 30 years?...( read more )

Defending Horse of the Year Curlin, in position after the defeat of Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday to solidify his status as the world's leading thoroughbred, completed his serious training for Saturday’s Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap with an easy half-mile work on Monday at Churchill...

IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr.’s undefeated Big Brown was installed as the 3-1 morning line favorite Wednesday afternoon over 19 rivals for Saturday’s 134th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) at Churchill Downs. read more

MAJESTIC WARRIOR (A.P. Indy), winless since a scintillating 2 1/4-length victory in the Hopeful S. (G1) at Saratoga, will attempt to return to his winning ways in Saturday's $100,000 Derby Trial S. at Churchill Downs. The opening-day feature will feature 10 sophomores, and the 7 1/2-furlong distance...