Jareth Loveberry fractured a fibula in a gate accident at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots March 1 when his stakes-winning mount, Not On Herb, reared before the start of the fourth race, the rider tweeted March 2.

By Mike Curry of America’s Best Racing

Daryl and Sally Duncan joke that the strain of breeding season annually tests their marriage of 37 years.

A four-time Eclipse Award winner and a member of racing’s Hall of Fame since 2017, Venezuelan native Javier Castellano has won the 2023 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award via a nationwide vote of his fellow riders.

Tom Pedulla, for America’s Best Racing, is interviewing prominent owners, trainers, and jockeys as they travel the Road to the 149th Kentucky Derby May 6 at Churchill Downs. This week he checks in with Mike Repole.

Since winning the Virginia Derby (G3T) and Parx Fall Derby back-to-back in the summer and fall of 2019, English Bee has raced 18 times with two wins and been beaten by five lengths or fewer in 10 graded stakes.

While the $300,000 Gotham Stakes (G3) may be the last in one regard on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail, it’s anything but the least in another.

Cody’s Wish recorded his first workout since capturing the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland with a three-furlong breeze in :38 4/5 March 1 at Payson Park in South Florida.

After a lifetime of his internal clock waking him up between 1:15 a.m.-2:45 a.m. to start his day, early even by the standards of horse trainers, Bill Spawr may finally be ready, he said, to “break that habit.”

After a lifetime of his internal clock waking him up between 1:15 a.m.-2:45 a.m. to start his day, early even by the standards of horse trainers, Bill Spawr may finally be ready, he said, to “break that habit.”