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Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith will be aboard Zenyatta for the 12th consecutive race Saturday at Santa Anita when the 6-year-old mare makes her 2010 debut in the $250,000 Grade I Santa Margarita Handicap.

Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, will be making her 2010 debut Saturday in the New Orleans Ladies at the Fair Grounds.

The 2010 Pegasus Pins that serve as tickets for entry into Kentucky Derby Festival activities in the weeks before the big horse race have gone on sale.

With temperatures in the high 50s and a lightning fast track, speed was the order of the day as Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs held its first qualifying races of the 2010 harness racing season Thursday morning.

Lookin At Lucky makes his 2010 debut in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.

While the idea of video slots remains dead, how about "instant racing?" On an 11 to 1 vote Thursday, a Senate committee approved Senator Damon Thayer's new version of a prior bill, to OK instant racing, currently in place only at the Oaklawn Park track in Arkansas.

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:28 p.m. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Meadowlands Racetrack is rescheduling nine dates on its harness racing calendar for later this year.

Joey The Jet JT won a three-horse photo to take the $20,000 trot at Dover Downs on Wednesday at Dover Downs.

Five-time leading driver Brian Sears is just one win shy of the 7,000-career mark entering the Thursday night card at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Less than half an hour after Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra begins her season in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes on Saturday, Breeders' Cup Classic winner Zenyatta will start her year in the $250,000 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap at Santa Anita Park.

Live racing is no more at The Rock, the legendary track where Seabiscuit and War Emblem once ran.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Newly released videos of Jaycee Dugard, her mom and half-sister show them preparing cookies, riding and petting horses, and Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, pleading for peace from the prying lenses of paparazzi.

By ANITA CHAMBERS FROGNAL can make a dream start for new handler Ruth Carr with victory in the Southwell Racecourse For Conferences Handicap at the Nottinghamshire venue.

Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm.

A day after they combined to win the Santa Anita Handicap with Misremembered, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Martin Garcia teamed up to win the $60,350 Joe Hernandez Handicap at Santa Anita with Sangaree.

The logo is simple: a horse, a horseshoe, and a rose. The Kentucky Derby Museum Tuesday unveiled its new 2010 logo on Tuesday.

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.