Horse Racing

6:52 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Tacitus was made the slight favorite over Preakness winner War of Will in a Belmont Stakes that wraps up a whacky Triple Crown. Tacitus and War of Will got the outside No. 10 and 9 post positions, respectively, on Tuesday in the draw at Citi Field, but

2:29 AM ET Joe Klingele Tacitus is the early favorite to take the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Michael Reaves/Getty Images The 2019 Belmont takes place Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Tacitus, who finished third in a wild Kentucky Derby, is a slight favorite, just ahead of War of Will. How

7:44 PM ET Nick Quinn CAULFIELD BEST BET BANDIPUR, Caulfield, Race 5, No.3 A James Cummings-trained galloper who has won two of his past three starts and looks well placed to win again. He should get a lovely run just off a good tempo and with Craig Williams in the saddle should be hard to

4:57 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — The owner of Santa Anita is investigating whether new rules were followed before the 26th horse death at the Southern California racetrack. Kochees, a 9-year-old gelding, was euthanized Sunday after injuring his left front leg in a race a day earlier. It was the third horse death

7:04 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita had its third horse death in nine days when a gelding pulled up during a race and was euthanized. Twenty-six horses have died in racing or training at the Southern California track since Dec. 26. The Los Angeles Times reported that Kochees sustained an injury

8:15 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Santa Anita had its second horse death in four days when a gelding pulled up during a race Sunday and was euthanized a day later. Twenty-five horses have now died in racing or training at the Southern California track since Dec. 26. The Los Angeles Times reported

ON THE ISLAND of Sumbawa, in the Indonesian archipelago some 200 miles east of Java and Bali, race day looks a lot different than the familiar scenes at Churchill Downs and Belmont Park. The horses are smaller than Western thoroughbreds, and all the jockeys are children. National Geographic correspondent Mariana Van Zeller traveled with E:60

11:16 PM ET BALTIMORE — For Mother’s Day, War of Will trainer Mark Casse and his wife, Tina, were shopping in Orlando — hardly a die-hard horse racing community, by his standards — when an employee in a shoe store asked Casse where he got his sneakers. As soon as Casse said Louisville, Kentucky, the

8:16 PM ET ESPN News Services Two weeks after a wild finish at the Kentucky Derby, the 144th running of the Preakness Stakes got off to an unusual start. Bodexpress bucked Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez just moments after racing out of the starting gate, dodged an outrider who tried to corral the riderless

7:45 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — War of Will bounced back from a bumpy ride in the Kentucky Derby to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, holding off a field that included a riderless horse that threw his jockey out of the gate and kept running. Trainer Mark Casse got his first Triple Crown