HALLANDALE, Fla. -- Dirt in the face. Fire in the heart. But through so much of the race, jockey Javier Castellano rode with a nagging question in his head as he bided his time, hugged the rail and waited for the one thing he wasn't sure would ...
LOS ANGELES--The deciding moment in Saturday's Santa Anita Handicap couldn't have been more perfectly scripted. The horses' names described the action.
At the head of the stretch, a big-time challenger, last year's Eclipse Award winner as top 3-...
LOS ANGELES -- Del Mar, the last race track in Southern California with a synthetic surface, plans to switch back to a dirt surface in the summer of 2015, track President Joe Harper said Wednesday.
The only remaining synthetic track in the state ...
MIAMI -- Penrose Jake, a fawn-colored greyhound, was known for being "tight on the rail" with an "explosive finish." But after starting strong in the 550-yard race at the Orange Park Kennel Club last August, the dog faded, slammed into another dog...
MIAMI -- Steroids: They're not just for professional athletes. They're also for race dogs.
A dog trainer at the Flagler and Hollywood greyhound tracks has been charged with illegally possessing performance-enhancing drugs, raising the prospect ...
LOS ANGELES -- As Hollywood Park prepares to hold an Internet auction on Friday and Saturday to sell off memorabilia and other items from its 75 years of racing, track President Jack Liebau confirmed on Wednesday that thefts have been ongoing ...