Horse Racing

9:00 AM ET Ryan Hockensmith A few years ago, a guy in his late 20s approached famous jockey Ron Turcotte and rolled up his sleeve. Turcotte is best known as Secretariat’s rider, and he was in Virginia that weekend signing autographs and swapping stories for the legendary horse’s birthday party. Yes, Secretariat might have died

8:48 AM ET Associated Press British horse racing’s most successful flat trainer of all time is recovering after contracting the coronavirus. Mark Johnston has been isolating since having the symptoms confirmed, and his family says he is making good progress. His son, Angus, told Racing TV “he had a couple of days in bed but

7:02 PM ET Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Scott Chaney has been named executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, replacing Rick Baedeker, who retired last month. Chaney’s appointment was announced Thursday by racing board chairman Greg Ferraro. Chaney has been a steward in California since 2005, serving initially on the Southern California thoroughbred

6:14 PM ET Associated Press The Breeders’ Cup is donating cash to help racetrack backstretch communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Lexington, Kentucky-based organization gave $25,000 to the Race Track Chaplaincy of America. The money will be allocated to help those most in need at various backstretch communities. Breeders’ Cup also donated 4,500 gloves,

1:29 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — A horse broke down after completing a workout at Santa Anita and was euthanized, marking the 11th fatality at the track since late December. M C Hamster, a 4-year-old filly, suffered a fractured left front ankle after a three-furlong workout on the main dirt track Wednesday. It

11:18 PM ET It was a good Saturday for one lucky horse racing bettor, who turned a 50-cent Pick 5 into over half a million dollars. One bettor won the Early Pick 5 — correctly picking the winner of the first five races — of Saturday’s 13-race program at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida,

6:05 PM ET Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Quarter horse trainer Bobby R. Martinez, whose combined earnings over a decades-long career total nearly $13 million, has been hit with a hefty fine and a 34-year suspension for several doping violations. Documents obtained from the New Mexico Racing Commission show the violations involved horses that tested

4:46 PM ET Associated Press Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano has completed his quarantine period that followed a positive test for the coronavirus and has returned to his base in New York. Castellano tested positive for COVID-19 last month as part of a physical mandated by Gulfstream Park to determine if he could be

2:52 PM ET Associated Press Officials say they are working to find a new date for the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown. The Maryland Jockey Club and Stronach Group announced Friday that whenever the Preakness is run in 2020, it will go on without the infield activities that had been

7:32 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — There was a horse fatality Thursday at Santa Anita, which is temporarily closed for live racing because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the seventh death at the track since December. According to the California Horse Racing Board website, a 2-year-old filly named Smiling Ali died. She had