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While the field for the 2018 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is shaping up to be one of the deepest in recent memory, the Longines Kentucky ...

The Queen's Plate is Canadian racing's equivalent to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve as the first jewel in our northern neighbor's Triple ...

Majestic bloodlines are a vital facet of horse racing and can be found in many of the sport's great champions as well as the places where they were born.

The $6 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic, set for Saturday, Nov
3, at approximately 5:44 p.m
ET, caps off two days of elite competition at the 2018 World ...

The 149th running of the Grade 1, $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets should live up to its billing as the "Mid-Summer Derby" even ...

With the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands just around the corner, it's time to brush up on this year's field for the first jewel of the Triple Crown at ...

The 20th edition of the Grade 2, $250000 Lexus Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland enticed 16 owners and trainers to enter one of the last graded stakes this year ...

It's hard to believe that the end of summer is already upon us, but Labor Day marked the closing days of the summer meets at Del Mar and Saratoga, so in the ...

The 2018 midterms have come and gone and there were no major surprises
Both Democrats and Republicans worked to mobilize millions and opened their ...

The Longines Kentucky Oaks will be the marquee race on Friday, May 5, at Churchill Downs
The 1 1/8-mile race has emerged as arguably the most important ...

The 28th running of the Grade 1, $1 million TVG Pacific Classic field is led by Accelerate, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap Presented by San Manuel ...

Saturday's $750000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes at Belmont Park is one of the most prestigious races in the sport, held for the 100th time this year, and it's a ...

The Grade 1, $500000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes presented by Lane's End is a race at Keeneland open to 3-year-old fillies by invitation only.

Horse racing is a world of its own, and every racing fan has a few questions when they first dive into the sport (and sometimes after they've been in it for a while!).

The field for the 36th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Arlington Million consists of 11 horses, including three coming in from Europe for the hefty purse and a ...

The 22nd running of the Grade 1, $800000 Ricoh Woodbine Mile at Woodbine is a "Win & You're In" race for the Breeders' Cup Mile on Nov
3, so the spotlight is ...

The $6 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic, set for Saturday, Nov
4, at approximately 8:35 p.m
ET, caps off two days of elite competition at the 2017 World ...

The path to the 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs on Nov
2-3 is a road with plenty of ups and downs as talented racehorses vie for ...

Teachers are on the move around the United States
By shutting down schools in every county in the state of West Virginia?even defying anti-strike laws that ...

The 11th running of the Grade 2, $350000 Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes brings together a field of six on Saturday at Belmont Park, with the winner ...

When Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert ships a horse to Belmont Park, you can bet he means business.

The 67th running of the Grade 1, $300000 United Nations Stakes brings together a field of nine at Monmouth Park, with four of them trained by Chad Brown.

The Washington establishment, aided and abetted by the mainstream media, is once again apoplectic at Donald Trump's decision to strip former CIA director ...

The University of Louisville men's basketball team has been stripped of its 2013 national title over a sex scandal that included using strippers and prostitutes to ...

?Coordinate the efforts of overseas and domestic propaganda?further create a favorable international environment for us?with regard to key issues that ...

Making the Grade, which will run through the 2018 Belmont Stakes, focuses on the winners or top performers of the big races, usually from the previous ...

The 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships marks the 35th year the best Thoroughbreds in North America meet up to compete in races that usually ...

Anyone who doubts Frank Stronach's ability to think big needs only to gaze at the 473-ton steel and bronze statue of Pegasus, the winged stallion of Greek ...

What defines a champion? Is it talent; the raw ability that gives an athlete the ability to excel in their sport? Is it accomplishments; the record of achievements that ...

One of the great obstacles John Velazquez faced presented itself long before his first mount
His mother, Margarita, viewed her son as a potential attorney or ...

Saturday's $400000 Xpressbet.com Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park is the next important prep race for Florida-based horses whose connections ...

Another Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands is in the history books, and now, the focus of the horse racing world shifts to the May 20 Preakness Stakes, ...

The $12 million Pegasus World Cup on Saturday, Jan
28, will be the richest race in the history of Thoroughbred racing
The 1 1/8-mile race on the main track at ...

The 21st running of the Grade 1, $800000 Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes on Saturday drew a field of 12, including four horses coming in from Europe and one ...

Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills?and an advocate for women's rights
On a U.S
tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady.

Racing fans are in for a treat Saturday when Belmont Park hosts a terrific day of racing led by five graded stakes races, including the $1-million, Grade 1 Belmont ...

Nearly seventy comrades and contacts converged on the National Center of the US Section of the IMT in Brooklyn, New York for the 2016 Northeast Regional ...

A Triple Crown won't be on the line this year, but the June 10 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets still promises to be one of the year's highlight events, ...

To commemorate July 4, 1776, here are 1776 songs about America, with a Spotify playlist for you to stream them all.

Following controversial comments on the Baltimore riots, Rand Paul demonstrates his appeal to Black voters with talk of criminal-justice reform.

Washington, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) The protection of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's work is today the apple of discord between Democrats and ...

By Taylor Lewis and Kate Ter?n, Research Associates at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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