Horse Racing

LOS ANGELES — Two undefeated horses from the barn of two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert have come back positive in split-sample testing for a banned substance in Arkansas. Baffert confirmed to The Associated Press via text message Monday that he had been informed of the positives for lidocaine involving Charlatan and Gamine in the

NEW YORK — Officials have lifted a precautionary quarantine on a barn at Belmont Park after test results for Freudnme, a horse suspected of having equine herpesvirus Type 1, were negative. The New York Racing Association said Sunday all horses in Barn 37 were found to not have fever and were asymptomatic. As a result,

NEW YORK — A barn at Belmont Park has been placed under a precautionary quarantine because of a suspected case of equine herpesvirus Type 1. New York Racing Association officials say a 4-year-old colt trained by Chris Englehart exhibited fever and neurological symptoms associated with EHV-1 on Saturday and is being treated by a private

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs says the rescheduled Kentucky Derby and Oaks will run this fall with spectators under strict guidelines to limit crowd density for the race that annually attracts more than 100,000. The 146th runnings of the Oaks for fillies and the Derby were postponed from May 1-2 to Sept. 4-5 because of

ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita saw 17 people test positive for the coronavirus during its recently completed meet, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said. The Arcadia racetrack was on Monday’s list of nonresidential settings with five or more confirmed cases of the disease. The list includes food and retail stores, meat processing

NEW YORK — Heavily favored Tiz the Law won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule in front of eerily empty grandstands. “I’m not trying to be a jerk about it,” trainer Barclay Tagg, 82, said. “But I thought the quiet, to me, was very

NEW YORK — Gamine led all the way in winning the $300,000 Acorn Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by 18 3/4 lengths at Belmont on Saturday. Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Gamine ran 1 mile in 1:32.55, fastest in the 90-year history of the race. Her time was just off the track record of

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Famer Bill Mott has become the seventh trainer in history with 5,000 wins. Moon Over Miami won the third race at Churchill Downs on Saturday by a length after being saddled by Mott’s assistant Kenny McCarthy. Mott was at Belmont Park in New York, where he was overseeing Modernist in

The 152nd Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday in New York. Normally, the final race of the Triple Crown, it will be the first this year and will take place without spectators. ESPN’s Chris Fallica gives us his best bets for the Triple Crown race, along with his thoughts on the day’s earlier races.

ASCOT, England — Frankie Dettori performed his trademark flying dismount after riding Stradivarius to a third straight victory at the Gold Cup in a dominant performance at Royal Ascot on Thursday. Stradivarius joined horses Sagaro (1975, ’76 and ’77) and Yeats (2006, ’07, ’08 and ’09) in winning the prestigious race three or more times

It wasn’t quite the post position trainer Barclay Tagg wanted for Tiz the Law. Still, it wasn’t far off for the colt who on Wednesday was made the early 6-5 favorite for the Belmont Stakes. Tagg was hoping the Florida Derby winner would land anywhere in spots 5 to 7 in the starting gate for

The 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes will take place Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The 2020 edition will of course look different, with no spectators allowed and the race distance shortened to 1⅛ miles instead of its traditional 1½ miles. The Belmont also will be the first race of the Triple

LOS ANGELES — Jockeys competing in California won’t be allowed to strike a horse more than six times during a race, and then only in an underhanded position, according to a new rule approved by the California Horse Racing Board. The rule would allow no more than two strikes in succession using whips that must

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen became the all-time leading trainer at Churchill Downs on Friday, saddling Drop Dead Gorgeous to a win in the first race for his 738th victory beneath the Twin Spires. Asmussen overtook Louisville native Dale Romans, who held the record since Nov. 12, 2017, when he surpassed Hall

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Maxfield was discovered to have an injured ankle after a workout Wednesday at Keeneland and will miss the rescheduled Triple Crown series. The 3-year-old colt was X-rayed after a half-mile workout, and a nondisplaced condylar fracture was found in his right front cannon bone. Maxfield will undergo surgery and miss the Triple

ARCADIA, Calif. — A horse broke down during a workout at Santa Anita Park and was euthanized, making it the 14th fatality at the track since late December. Lightsaber, a 2-year-old filly who had yet to race, died Sunday in what the California Horse Racing Board called a training-related death. She sustained a left hind

ARCADIA, Calif. — Honor A. P. won the $400,000 Santa Anita Derby by 2¾ lengths Saturday to move into the Kentucky Derby picture. Ridden by Hall of Famer Mike Smith, Honor A. P. ran 1⅛ miles in 1 minutes, 48.97 seconds and paid $6.40, $2.60 and $2.20. It was Smith’s third consecutive victory and fourth

ARCADIA, Calif. — Undefeated Charlatan will miss the rescheduled Kentucky Derby this fall after being sidelined by a minor ankle issue. Trainer Bob Baffert said Saturday that the colt has a filling, or swelling, in a front ankle. As a result, Charlatan will not be ready to race in time for the Kentucky Derby on