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The organizers of the Track Superintendents Field Day are pleased to announce that the 20th edition of the event will be held June 14-15, 2021, at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. The event brings together [...]

Message from Eric Hamelback, CEO of the National HBPA: Dear owners, trainers, breeders, racing officials, race track employees, and all horse racing enthusiasts, Today I want to bring to light the importance of SB120, [...]

The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) Foundation has announced the allocation of $20,000 in scholarships to students pursuing equine studies or a related field within the state of Kentucky. Ten separate $2,000 scholarships will be [...]

OwnerView announced today that the 2021 Thoroughbred Owner Conference will be held as a free series of virtual panels over nine months. The conference series, hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and [...]

Where Are We Going from Here? By Leroy Gessmann, National HBPA President and Chairman of the Board By the time this op-ed goes to print, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) could very well [...]

Photo by Coglianese Photos By the time the Claiming Crown had ended Saturday at Gulfstream Park – after a record $14.6 million was wagered on the event – it was clear how much [...]

Luis Saez (Photo by Lauren King/Coglianese Photos) Luis Saez, a two-time Championship Meet titlist who began his U.S. career in South Florida, rode the winners of six races on Saturday’s 11-race program [...]

Fiya (Photo by Derbe Glass/Coglianese Photos) Robert Masiello’s Fiya blazed to victory in Saturday’s $90,000 Claiming Crown Canterbury at Gulfstream Park, collecting his fifth straight victory since being transferred to turf. The Canterbury [...]

High Noon Rider (Photo by Lauren King/Coglianese Photos) GenStar Thoroughbreds’ High Noon Rider, having spent the summer and early fall on the road, returned home to register the biggest win of his 55-race [...]

Jesus' Team (Photo by Derbe Glass/Coglianese Photos) Prepping for a planned start in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) Jan. 23 at Gulfstream Park, Grupo 7C Racing Stable’s Jesus’ Team returned [...]

Mike Maker (Photo by Coady Photography) Winding down the best season of his career and coming in off the Churchill Downs’ fall title, trainer Mike Maker looks to add to his record 17 [...]

Jesus Team (Photo by Scott Serio/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders Cup/CSM) Grade 1 stakes-placed in his two most recent starts, Jesus’ Team will return to his roots Saturday with a start in the $150,000 Claiming Crown [...]

Grade 3 winner Tusk (Photo by Coglianese Photos) Jordan Wycoff’s Tusk, unraced since becoming a graded-stakes winner 10 months ago, and defending champion Muggsamatic, wheeling back just two weeks off his previous [...]

Photo by Scott Serio/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders Cup/CSM Grupo 7C Racing Stables’ Jesus’ Team, who finished second in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland in his most recent start, is scheduled [...]

The 2021 National HBPA Conference, originally scheduled to be held in February in Hollywood Beach, Florida, and hosted by the Florida HBPA, has been rescheduled with the intention of holding a smaller event in [...]

The Retired Racehorse Project and OTTB United jointly announce today the release of OTTB United, a mobile app that unites sellers, buyers, and shippers of Thoroughbred ex-racehorses and gives back to the Thoroughbred placement community. [...]

Godolphin and Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) jointly announced today the launch of a mobile application for backstretch and farm workers. The app, called Cómo, connects Thoroughbred industry employees to the vital services they need [...]

The Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, now in its fifth year in the United States, concluded Thursday afternoon with winners being announced via a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Studio 46 Media in Lexington, Kentucky. Jill [...]

OwnerView announced today that MyRacehorse has been named the 2020 New Owner of the Year, presented by New York Thoroughbred Breeders. The award recognizes a new Thoroughbred owner who has been successful in the sport [...]

The 22nd edition of the Claiming Crown, a nine-race event offering $835,000 in purses to the blue-collar horses that are the backbone of the Thoroughbred industry’s day-to-day racing schedule, will return to Gulfstream Park for [...]

National HBPA Concerns with Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 Senator Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 (HISA) has been passed into law. The bill takes regulatory authority from [...]

The finalists for six of the seven prestigious Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards have been announced. The winner of the Thoroughbred Industry Community Award, which has one first-place prize, has been decided. This year's recipient is [...]

Equibase Company has rebranded and relaunched its popular Today’s Racing app with a contemporary look and several new features, including a simplified betting tool, it was announced today by Equibase Company President and Chief Operating [...]

OwnerView announced today that the seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference, scheduled to be held July 19-22, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., will be rescheduled. “We were greatly looking forward to bringing the Owner Conference to [...]

In late May, news broke that two of Bob Baffert’s trainees, Charlatan and Gamine, who won races at Oaklawn on May 2, had unconfirmed post-race identifications (positive tests) for lidocaine on that day. Social [...]