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Valentine’s Day on February 14 was not only a day to celebrate love, but also a day to celebrate the top performances of horses around the world. After their standout wins on Saturday, Forever young And Paladin both found themselves moving up in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association polls. Forever Young’s repeat victory in the […]
Consider the performance of the $30 million racehorse Forever young . Yes, I’m rounding the revenue total a bit, but with numbers like this, it’s close enough. A year after scoring victories and placing in the top three international dirt races for older horses, the remarkable Forever Young continued his impressive run with a season-opening […]
In recent years, U.S.-based trainers fortunate enough to have multiple Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls might try to chart different paths toward the first Saturday in May, perhaps with one runner coming in on Gulfstream Park and another bee Aqueduct racecourseor one up Santa Anita Park and another bee Oaklawn Park. While these decisions are still […]
Eleven of the most memorable, large-scale and momentous events from thoroughbred racing in North America last year have been nominated for the 2025 FanDuel Racing NTRA Moment of the Year, an award determined by fan votes and recognized at the annual Eclipse Awards. Voting is available on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association website, NTRA.comand via […]
Godolphin, who campaigned 13 North American stakes winners, including the double classic winner Sovereignty set a record in revenues as leading owner for the fifth year in a row, and Irad Ortiz Jr. set a single-season record as the leading jockey by earnings according to final statistics released by Equibase. Brad Cox finished the year […]
While acknowledging that horse racing offered creative approaches to bringing in new fans in 2025, marketing expert Ben Cleminson presented some next-level ideas at the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities conference in Paris in October. Cleminson, CEO of Square in the Air, a racing and gaming marketing agency, presented a number of such ideas during […]
Winner of Godolphin in double group 1 until October 5 Ombudsman remains at the top of the latest Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025. The son of Night of Thunder is rated 128 after wins in this year’s Juddmonte International (G1) and Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1). Four horses share the second-highest rating of […]
