Belmont Stakes News

Veteran jockey Mick Kinane has announced his retirement, ending a 34-year career in the saddle.

Espoir City has won the US$4.7 million Japan Cup Dirt by 3i 1 2 lengths over Silk Mobius at Hanshim Racecourse on Sunday.

On Thursday the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association came out with its 2010 listing of the graded stakes in the United States.

Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino's marquee race, the Sunland Derby, was granted graded status during the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association meeting in Louisville, Ky., the track announced this afternoon.

Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:13 a.m. Ira "Babe" Hanford wasn't supposed to amount to much in the 1936 Kentucky Derby.

Serenading secured her first career graded stakes win and spoiled the career finale for Grade 1 winner Unbridled Belle on Thursday in the $160,950 Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs.

The 1 1/8-mile Remsen Stakes serves as a formidable two-turn test late in the season for promising two-year-olds, and on Saturday at Aqueduct Buddy's Saint passed with flying colors.

The Buffalo Sabres have lost four straight games by a combined 15-6 and have only 20 goals in their past 11 games .

Legendary racehorse Secretariat took to the track at the Belmont Stakes on June 9, 1973 needing to win the race to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

BLACKSTONE STREET brought the small Santa Rosa Park crowd to life with a thrilling stretch run that brought him within 1/5 of a second of the 1,200-metre track record held by two-time Horse of the Year Sugar Mike and Asmira 1:10.2, to nail the pacesetting Sweet Alex on the shadow of the finish line in yesterday's 1,200-metre Stewards Cup at Santa ...

BOBBY Frankel, a United States Hall of Fame racehorse trainer whose eye for thoroughbred talent turned losers into winners and winners into bigger winners, has died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, in California.

Bobby Frankel with his horse Empire Maker, who won the Belmont Stakes in 2003, denying Funny Cide the Triple Crown.

It was quiet this summer on the Oklahoma Oval, and no throngs of horsemen gathered outside Barn 72.

Bobby Frankel and John Chandler, of Juddmonte Farms hold the cup after Empire Maker won the Belmont Stakes in 2003.

Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel has died. He was 68. Jockey agent Ron Anderson said Frankel died early Monday at home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., after a battle with cancer.

Birdstone's son Mine That Bird won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands .

Summer Bird, the leading contender for champion 3-year-old male, will run in the 1 1/8-mile Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin, trainer Tim Ice told Daily Racing Form .

Careless Jewel was on a mission, and there was very little jockey Robert Landry could do to dissuade her.

The much anticipated race between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta? Well, it's on, but only on paper.

The much anticipated race between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta? Well, it's on, but only on paper.