International Racing

Today fourteen horses will line up at the Vincennes track outside Paris and take off trotting for 2,850 meters (1-3/4 miles) in quest of a victory in the Prix du Bourbonnais.

Harness racing is trotting and pacing forward---albeit slowly---in South Africa.

Stallions traveling from North America to Sweden proved to be in great demand with Swedish breeders during the 2008 breeding season.

Let’s the B’s begin. The "B races" which comprise the prep races for the prestigious Prix d’Amerique in France begin today when the Prix de Bretagne is contested at the Vincennes racecourse near Paris...

You may have seen the recent notice that Arts Conquest, a stallion in Illinois in recent years, has been sold and will soon join Yankee Lariat by Western Hanover at Camden Stud near York, England.

They are the coldest and arguably the ugliest months of the year. November through February is certainly not my favorite time of year and I suspect you feel the same way.

One of the most enjoyable nights I spent at a racetrack this year was on a night when there was no racing at all being held.

The Swedish trotting star with the 23-race winning streak race is in action today at the Aby track in Gothenberg in western Sweden. He is shooting at his 24th straight win in a race over 2,640 meters ...

While the best three-year-old trotters in North America battle it out today in the Kentucky Futurity, the best sophomores in Sweden await tomorrow's Travkriterium (Trotting Criterium) and wonder if an...

With the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale set to start next week in Kentucky, I thought it might be suitable to look at some European yearling sales. And I sure hope the Lexington sale is better than ...

In one of my blog entries on the Standardbred Canada preview of its new web site, I wrote about the Little Brown Jug and quoted my late friend Norman Woolworth. Few people knew as much about harness r...

The oddsmakers called it right: they said that the Swedish Derby would come down to a race between favoured Sahara Dynamite and rival Wellino Boko, two sons of Express Ride.