Mirco Demuro-ridden third pick Satono Crown won the Takarazuka Kinen on Sunday for his second career Grade 1 victory. The 5-year-old stallion came from behind and overpowered the field over the stretch run, coming home in 2 minutes, 11.4 seconds over 2,200 meters at Hanshin Racecourse. Top favorite Kitasan Black faded at ...
Japan's latest attempt to land the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe suffered a setback on Sunday when Satono Diamond was ...
Christophe Lemaire and Kazuo Fujisawa struck gold for the second straight weekend on Sunday, with the jockey and trainer this ...
Frankel-sired Soul Stirring captured the second jewel in the filly's Triple Crown on Sunday, comfortably winning the Japanese Oaks at Tokyo Racecourse. Runaway favorite Soul Stirring did her legendary father of 10 Grade 1 wins proud, bouncing back from last month's disappointment of finishing third ...
A trainer and jockey accustomed to success. A headstrong horse with a mind of its own. Together, they harnessed their collective talents to win the Kentucky Derby. Always Dreaming splashed through the slop for a 2 3/4-length victory Saturday, giving Todd Pletcher and rider John ...
The absence of a dominant horse suggests an open race in Saturday's 143rd Kentucky Derby and bettors should not overlook Patch and the longshots in the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. Classic Empire, at 4-1, was the narrow early line favorite in the ...
Neorealism became the third Japanese horse to win the Audemars Piquet Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong on Sunday, when he captured his first G1 title. Joao Moreira aboard 6-year-old stallion, the second favorite in the odds offered by the Japan Racing Association, sprung ...
Kitasan Black became just the fourth horse to defend the spring Tenno-sho title, while breaking Deep Impact's 11-year record time to win the Emperor's Cup on Sunday. First choice Kitasan Black showed his class as reigning horse of the year on a sunny afternoon at ...
Ninth favorite Al Ain won the 77th running of the Satsuki-sho on Sunday at Nakayama Racecourse, covering the 2,000-meter course in a record 1 minute, 57.8 seconds. Jockey Kohei Matsuyama secured his first Grade 1 win in his nine-year career, steering Al Ain behind the ...
Eighth favorite Reine Minoru held off star jockey Yutaka Take aboard third favorite Lys Gracieux down the final stretch for a surprise half-length victory in the Oka-sho on Sunday. Reine Minoru, with Kenichi Ikezoe aboard, crossed the finish at Hanshin Racecourse in 1 minute, 34.5 ...
Former Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Charismatic, whose bid for the Triple Crown ended with a dramatic leg injury as he neared the finish line in the Belmont Stakes, has died at a thoroughbred retirement farm in Kentucky. The striking chestnut horse that won ...
Mirco Demuro won the February Stakes for the second straight year on Sunday, steering second choice Gold Dream to victory in the year's first Grade 1 race on the Japanese calendar. Gold Dream finished a neck in front of fifth favorite Best Warrior, cutting a ...
Three-year-old favorite Satono Diamond celebrated a Merry Christmas by tipping Kitasan Black at the wire to win Japan's season-ending Arima Kinen on Sunday. The Christophe Lemaire-ridden colt beat Japan Cup holder and spring Tenno-sho champion Kitasan Black, the leading vote-getter in the fan-chosen field of ...
Nineteen-year-old jockey Nanako Fujita on Saturday claimed her sixth national race and her first since Oct. 9. In the day's fourth race, Fujita steered the fourth-pick, 2-year-old colt Silver Meteor, through the middle of the 16-horse field before gradually picking up the pace. She snatched ...
German jockey Freddy Tylicki, paralyzed in a horrific four horse pile-up almost two months ago, left the hospital on Tuesday. The 30-year-old, who is based in England and had two Group One wins in a breakthrough season in 2016, tweeted it was a red letter ...
