Month: August 2026

The Maryland State Fair returns to Timonium next week for its 145th edition, bringing back the mainstay rides, livestock shows, horse racing and food. The late-summer […]

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Robbie Williams will perform at this year’s Lexus Melbourne Cup Day — Australia’s premier horse racing event — on Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Victoria Racing Club […]

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For jockey Juan Hernandez, this week’s hardest race might not be the one he’s scheduled to ride in England on Friday or any of the four […]

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Stickney officials say they oppose construction of a data center at the site of the now-closed Hawthorne Race Course, which closed down last month after 135 […]

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DEL MAR — The Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Saturday, featuring a talented horse with something to prove, is an event for two kinds of […]

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When Doug Moore, an accomplished Northwest jockey for two decades, decided to retire, he gave up riding. But that didn’t keep him from going several extra […]

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A racehorse owner is in hot water after igniting a scandal. Marshall Gramm, an economics professor at Rhodes College (Tenn.), faces a lifetime ban after being […]

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Aug. 17 (UPI) — It was ladies weekend in North American racing, as fillies beat the boys in Saturday’s premier events at Saratoga and Woodbine and […]

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Now that Chicago-area horse racing has been pronounced dead, the time has come to perform an autopsy. The fiscal irresponsibility and mismanagement of bankrupt Hawthorne Race […]

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Del Mar’s Pacific Classic has seen its quality ebb and flow like the nearby tide in recent years, from the record-setting romp by Flightline to the […]

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