A TOP jockey has revealed how his kids cried for two hours after he lost the ride for the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Umberto Rispoli has ridden Michael McCarthy-trained colt Journalism to five ...

The Breeders’ Cup is the richest weekend on the horse racing calendar with purses totaling more than $34 million for the 14 ...

Brought us here to the Breeders’ Cup for three straight years. He’s given us some ride. He paid $35 in the Juvenile and won ...

It’s the highest-level race in the world, but with only nine runners and little room for randomness, I think we have a real ...

Forever Young won the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar on Saturday, holding off defending champion Sierra Leone to give Japan ...

Brian Hernandez has been hospitalized since September 21 after a bad fall during the third race at Churchill Downs.

First and third in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, Sierra Leone and Forever Young are both out of daughters of Darling My ...

Forever Young, 7-2 on the morning line, looks poised to give Japan its first victory in America’s richest thoroughbred race ...

Five Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" Challenge Races take place this weekend, split between the major summer racetracks of Saratoga Race Course and Del Mar, with two 1 1/4-mile qualifiers Sept. 3 ...

Eric Eldin, who has died at the age of 89, was a Classic-winning jockey from the same generation as Lester Piggott, and won about 1,200 races during his 30-year career in the saddle. A long-term ...

DEL MAR – It isn’t difficult for jockey Mike Smith to come up with his favorite Pacific Classic winner. He cherishes each of his four victories in Del Mar’s signature race, but the 2014 edition stands ...

DEL MAR – It isn’t difficult for jockey Mike Smith to come up with his favorite Pacific Classic winner. He cherishes each of his four victories in Del Mar’s signature race, but the 2014 edition stands ...