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Boylesports.com is the new title sponsor for the opening day of the 2010 Punchestown Festival.

Photograph: Tom Jenkins Solwhit, the Irish Champion Hurdle winner, is "less than 50-50" to run in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham next week after developing a cough, Charles Byrnes, his trainer, said.

State officials and New Jersey horse racing industry leaders said March 8 they have reached an agreement to reduce the number of racing dates at Monmouth Park this summer but boost purses to $1 million a day, tops in the nation.

Kevin Dunn has joined HBO's drama pilot Luck , with Kerry Condon and Tom Payne also set and Nick Nolte in talks.

The developer of the casino planned for Columbus has struck a deal to buy Grove City's Beulah Park horse track.

The company that owns Indiana's Hoosier Park casino and horse track is putting its Colorado casino up for sale as it works to revamp its payments on at least $574 million in debt under its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

This April 29, 2009, file photo shows trainer Todd Pletcher watching workouts for the 135th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Ky.

Rachel Alexandra, with exercise rider Dominic Terry aboard, gallops at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans earlier this year.

The Bafferts had a little disagreement three weeks ago after Misremembered finished second in the Grade II Strub Stakes at Santa Anita.

Looking Hanover looked Celebrity Playboy in the eye at the top of the stretch and edged away to win the first of three $20,000 Horse & Groom Series divisions in 1:54.4 Sunday afternoon at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Already with one bona fide Kentucky Derby prospect in his barn, D. Wayne Lukas will be looking for another when he sends out Wow Wow Wow in Saturday's Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.

No one is more surprised to find herself on the Triple Crown trail than Alexis Barba.

The man who put "Tribal" in Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," the song of the year, DJ Paulo recently got the call from the Saint-at-Large to play Black Party XXXI, the annual pagan paean to everything debauched and decadent that takes place during the weekend of the vernal equinox at Roseland Ballroom in New York Fucking City.

New Hampshire lawmakers historically have rejected bills to legalize video slots, but Millennium Gaming owner Bill Wortman refuses to quit trying to bring them to the state's only horse race track.

Misremembered won the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap on Saturday, holding off fast-closing Neko Bay by a half-length. The victory was Misremembered's first after three consecutive runner-up finishes, putting Hall of Famer Bob Baffert in the winner's circle as the horse's trainer, co-owner and breeder.

Susan Roy and Vinery Stables' Awesome Act turned in an impressive performance in his first start on dirt, easily accelerating past his rivals at the top of the stretch en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the $250,000 Gotham Stakes March 6. Shipping from England for trainer Jeremy Noseda for his 3-year-old debut, Awesome Act threw himself into the ...

Chaotic scenes after a freak storm hit Melbourne today flooding the city's streets and halting traffic.

Odd On Moinet tracked down Rev Me Up in the final strides to win the $61,000 Tender Loving Care Final for pacing fillies on Friday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.

FRANKFORT - A Republican state senator said Friday that he'll mount a home-stretch push for legislation aimed at reinvigorating Kentucky's horse racing industry.

Michigan State Police and Michigan Gaming Control Board representatives executed multiple search warrants Thursday at three private residences in Southeast Michigan as part of an ongoing investigation into individuals suspected of race-fixing. Members of the Ontario Racing Commission are also involved in the investigation.