America's oldest horse racetrack is closing after running its last race on the final weekend of 2024. Freehold Raceway in New Jersey, co-owned by Penn Entertainment, tried for decades to land a casino ...

Aqueduct is the only racetrack in New York City — two concentric turf ovals and nine furlongs of well-kept dirt in South Ozone Park bounded by the Belt Parkway and Rockaway Boulevard. In its heyday, ...

The Wood Memorial Stakes was inaugurated in 1925 and has a long history of producing Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown Champions, the most famous of which is Secretariat. Widely considered one of, if ...

As a light rain fell from a grey sky, Mike Smith was giddy. The jockey was talking about Rodriguez, the three-year-old he rode to victory in the 100th running of the Grade 2 $750,000 Wood Memorial on ...

The $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) saw its 100th running won by the talented Rodriguez for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert April 5, providing his 10 owners with their third likely contender for the May ...