Trainer Cole Bennett was amazed that the two-year-old daughter of War Dancer was able to go from a hospital room to the winner’s circle.
Not wanting to be away from the sport she loved during the pandemic, journalist Hayley Morrison chose to get a gig on the backstretch.
In just her second full season of training, Christine Ammann finished as runner-up in the year-end win standings at the 2020 Hastings meet.
The discussion over the excessive use of whips ‒ or their use at all ‒ in the sport of horse racing has long been a contentious issue.
Racing in Canada may be over for the season, but you can warm a Thoroughbred lover's heart with these thoughtful, fun gifts.
It has been a long road to today's formulas and incentives to encourage fairness in the sport and protect the welfare of the jockeys.
His ground-breaking surgery to correct dorsal displacement of the soft palate earned the moniker 'The Llewellyn Procedure'.
University of Kentucky Sports Medicine Research Institute is examining jockey performance and the impact of fatigue, weight loss, and more.
Robert Crean still holds a 'Heartlight' for this game seven-year-old Ontario-bred who recently won the Mister Frisky Stakes in Puerto Rico.
University of Kentucky researchers are working to make horseracing safer through track surface consistency measurements.
Since suffering a traumatic brain injury on the backstretch in July, April's friends, neighbours and community have pitched in to help.
Mel Lawson's decision to let Janet Bedford train his string of horses turned out to be a ground-breaking game-changer for his Jim Dandy Stables.
This formidable family is led by top trainer Julie, her daughter/assistant Alysha, husband and leading owner Dave, plus an aunt and uncle who round out the team.
The blow-by-blow report of an infamous and ferocious stretch skirmish between jockeys Don Meade and Herb Fisher in the 1933 Kentucky Derby.
The number of positive capsaicin drug tests continues to mount at tracks in the province with no explanation and some very frustrated trainers.
