A small but accomplished field of five older females will race 1 1/8 miles on the main track at Churchill Downs in Saturday’s $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Fleur de Lis Stakes.
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The Melbourne Cup undergoes one of the biggest changes in its history as the trophy alone is now worth $1million
The Melbourne Cup has undergone a massive change with a 165-year first. The trophy itself is now worth over $1 million for the first time ever.
Four horse racing meetings off following extreme heat warning
A rare red heat warning by the Met Office leads to four of Britain's five scheduled horse racing meetings on Wednesday to be abandoned.
Women in Racing: Bessie Gruwell Turned Tragedy Into Triumph and Built a Career on Giving Back
Long before Bessie Gruwell became executive director of the Delaware Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association in 2005, she was forced to cope with two losses as sudden as they were devastating. She was a mere 20 years old when her father, Thomas Lovelace, died of a heart attack in 1983. She wound up taking over his training operation at that unlikely age. She was 33 when Richard Gruwell, her husband, died in his sleep two weeks after they celebrated their 10th anniversary. Another heart attack.
