Prestigious event for two-year-old fillies is now part of the July 4th Racing Festival, run at Saratoga while Belmont Park ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS–After Baeza's (McKinzie) lackluster third-place finish in the GI Belmont Stakes last month, trainer John Shirreffs wasn't convinced his horse was as bad as he showed at Saratoga Race ...

Familiar Thoroughbreds from the 3-year-old stakes scene will line up to contest the July 5 Indiana Derby (G3) at Horseshoe ...

He still, at 26-years-old, keeps himself pretty race fit.” Trickey Trevor was purchased for $52,000 at the OBS March Sale in ...

As noted last week, trainers can only amplify–not magnify–a horse's genetic legacy. D. Wayne Lukas was able to draw our attention to assets we might gladly replicate, but not even he could actually ...

After four successive runner-up finishes, it is perhaps hardly surprising that questions were being asked about Calandagan.

The 1930s were the decade of a dynasty, one clad in white with red polka dots, those colors ubiquitous in the winner’s ...

To McKeen, the Boston University professor, there were two huge influences on a young Thompson’s life in Louisville: the ...

Still, at 89, he consented to being called the Coach up until his retirement last week (placed in hospice care, he died Sunday). Advancing from the quarter-horse ranks, Lukas dominated the sport for ...

For anybody writing sports in Kentucky today, it would be remiss to fail to note the passing of a giant – maybe the giant – ...

D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers wanted to be like Wayne. Owners wanted ...

Legendary horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas has died, according to a report from Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.The ...