Racing revels in a narrative. It cheers the underdog and subtly rolls its collective eyes at the well-fancied blue-blood. Adoring its humble figures and finding ways to flaw the forthright, the Sport of Kings, crowns and castle balls willingly rides the waves of eternally twisting plot lines, while hoping for Cinderella to earn her way [...]

After an eight-wide trip and respectable fifth-place finish in Saturday's salty GI Cigar Mile, Dallas Stewart-trained Tom's Ready (More Than Ready) capped a 21-race, 28-month career that saw him clash and hold his own against the very best of his generation. The 4-year-old colt closed out his racing tenure as one of the toughest milers [...]

One is a fresh face within the procession of talented young racehorses and the other an established elder-statesman within the jockey ranks, but both are having a solid symbiotic season in which they have steadily built themselves up into peak form. The latter is Jose Valdivia, Jr., a winner of more than 1,600 races and [...]

Karma has a way of feeling amplified in horse racing and few have felt the swing of its pendulum more intensely in 2017 than 34-year-old Simon Callaghan. A native of Newmarket, England, the son of top English trainer Neville Callaghan and a former assistant to Richard Hannon and Todd Pletcher entered the year full of [...]

Trainer Tim Glyshaw has had a bittersweet 2017, but the sweet is absolutely saccharine right now and the 48-year-old proud Indiana University alum is heading to the Breeders' Cup with his first two starters. While GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint-bound Bucchero (Kantharos) was already slated to head to Del Mar for the World Championships, it [...]

Canada's complex racing and breeding landscape is lush with history and established, accomplished operations. Few Ontario-based farms have ascended to such standards in the last few years more impressively than Anderson Farms, which has admirably managed to function as a boutique operation while leaving its fingerprints virtually all over the industry. Maxing out at just [...]

Trainer Graham Motion is a horseman whose record on the international stage speaks for itself. The England-born, Maryland-based winner of the G1 Dubai World Cup and veteran of multiple trips to Royal Ascot heads into this Sunday's international festival at Woodbine Racetrack with more than a realistic chance of sweeping the famed facility's two featured [...]

Over the last decade, Chris Baccari has built an impressive bloodstock operation. Centered around his Seclusive Farm right off North Elkhorn Creek between Lexington and Georgetown, Kentucky, Baccari Bloodstock has been making waves with its consignments, and even recently with its high-profile RNAs, selling million-dollar and six-figure stock regularly and growing a reputation as a [...]

When the nearly black physique of longtime fan favorite Hogy (Offlee Wild) crossed the finish line first in the GIII $400,000 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint under Florent Geroux Sept. 9, it was not a big surprise. After all, the now seven-time stakes winner was the 5-2 slight favorite do so and had finished a solid [...]

A trio of Europeans are slated to invade New York for Saratoga's impressive stakes action, including six Grade I races topped by the GI Travers S. While there are no across-the-pond competitors for the featured event, said contingent may prove strong in the two races in which they compete, topped by multiple Grade/Group I winner [...]

This Saturday's 35th Arlington Million at Arlington International Racecourse is the centerpiece of the Chicagoland oval's International Festival of Racing and has been one of the world's marquee global grass affairs since 1981. The world's first seven-figure race, a Grade I $1-million Breeders' Cup Challenge 'Win and You're In' event, it has consistently brought together [...]

Trainer Arnaud Delacour has quickly and quietly ascended to being one of the most universally respected horsemen in America. Since going out on his own in 2011, the seven-year assistant to Christophe Clement–and two-year to Alain de Royer-Dupré in France before that–has shown marked skill with a variety of equine designs, from recently retired multiple [...]