Thoroughbred Racing

On February 17, officials with Edmonton’s Alberta’s Northlands Park announced that 2016 would be the track’s last year in the live horse racing business. Fast forward almost six months to the day, and...

While the Asmussen name is most recognized for its involvement and success on the Thoroughbred side of horse racing, it has started to appear in harness racing programs as well.

There is an ongoing push in today’s racing environment to tap into the younger demographic and attract new owners and customers to the game. A mainstream Toronto publication has run a profile piece on...

The good news is that Don Pleterski is alive. The bad news is that the Thoroughbred trainer suffered substantial injuries on June 26 at the Fort Erie Race Track when he was critically injured by an ou...

It may not be the biggest trend in the world, but drones have been spotted more recently at some racetracks. That trend could be coming to an end in some areas, though, as a particular jurisdiction ha...

It has come to light that a horse racing announcer is having to be escorted to and from his perch atop the raceway due to having received death threats in relation to his job.

In a pretty bizarre case of truth being stranger than fiction, an injured horse racing participant suffered further agony this past weekend when an ambulance drove over his leg and broke it as he laid...

What started out as a simple shipping trip taking a horse to turnout became a journey into bringing back and winning a race with a horse nobody wanted.

Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Sir Dudley Digges, piloted by Julien Leparoux, arrived in the final strides to collar favoured Amis Gizmo to win Sunday’s 157th running of The Queen’s Plate, at Woodbine.

A stronger, unified governance body to oversee Pennsylvania’s more than $1 billion equine racing industry began its work to strengthen horse and harness racing today (Wednesday, June 29) as the new St...

Officials at Fort Erie Race Track made the decision to cancel the last live race at the track on Sunday (June 26) after a serious incident that resulted in a Thoroughbred being euthanized and a horsem...

The Woodbine Entertainment Group and the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario recently announced the signing of a contract that guarantees 133 dates of Thoroughbred racing at Wo...