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State regulators will hold a special meeting Monday to consider pulling the license of Los Alamitos Race Course after a rash of racehorse deaths this year at the Orange County facility. The track was placed on probation by the California Horse Racing Board on July 10 and given 10 days to produce a plan to address the deaths or face…

Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for 15 days by Oaklawn Park stewards after two of his horses tested positive in Arkansas for a banned substance

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 150,000

Eerily empty grandstands. Masked jockeys. Shuttered betting windows. For Tiz the Law trainer Barclay Tagg, no finer way to round out a career Triple Crown. “I’m not trying to be a jerk about it,” the 82-year-old said. “But I thought the quiet, to me, was very nice.” Everything was strange about this Belmont Stakes, except the winner. Heavily favored...

Tiz the Law is the early 6-5 favorite for the Belmont, which kicks off what Knowlton calls a “backwards Triple Crown.” Greg Cergol reports.

Mike Smith, the jockey also known as “Big Money Mike,” explains how the coronavirus pandemic has turned the horse racing world upside down and why the Belmont Stakes is so different this year.

Another sign of hope on New York’s road to recovery. We’ve learned the Belmont Stakes will run next month. But there won’t be spectators in the stands at Belmont Park. Bruce Beck reports.

Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners, 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs. The 1 1/4-mile race featuring computer-generated imagery was held Saturday, the same day the 146th Derby had been scheduled until it was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. The Derby has been re-set for Sept. 5….

FBI agents arrested 27 people early Monday on federal charges they participated in a scheme to illegally administer performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to racehorses throughout the United States, court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan say. The 27 defendants include horse trainers, veterinarians, and others, accused of administering the PEDs in order to improve the performance of racehorses…

Top trainers and veterinarians are accused of injecting horses with performance enhancing drugs and killing others, all while covering up their actions. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The trainer of champion Maximum Security is among more than two dozen people charged in what authorities describe as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today made a series of recommendations aimed at improving safety at California race tracks, but concluded there was no criminal wrongdoing connected to the deaths of dozens of horses over the past year at Santa Anita Park.

Two horses died after the first race at Los Alamitos Race Course Saturday, adding to the death toll in a year that has seen increased scrutiny of the sport in Southern California.

Justify won the Preakness Stakes and is now just one win away from becoming the 13th horse to win the Triple Crown.

Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday called for the California Horse Racing Board “to ensure that no horse races until they are examined by independent veterinarians and found fit to compete.”

The 151st running of the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown of horse racing, is Saturday, June 8, and you can watch the action live on NBC. NBC’s coverage on Saturday begins at 4 p.m. ET, and you can watch it all live at home or on the go via NBC Live.

It’s the official cocktail of the Triple Crown’s “middle jewel.”

The 144th running of the Preakness Stakes, the Triple Crown of horse racing’s “second jewel,” is Saturday, May 18, and you can watch the action live on NBC. NBC’s coverage on Saturday begins at 5 p.m. ET and the race is set to start around 6:48 p.m. ET. You can watch it all live at home or on the go...

For the past five years, Luis Grandison was the only full-time Spanish language horse race narrator in the U.S.

The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby kicks off this year’s Triple Crown of horse racing Saturday, May 4, on NBC.