Slew’s Song Named Texas Claimer of the Year
Slew’s Song has been named the 2016 Texas Champion Claimer after an online poll on the Texas Thoroughbred Association’s website. The mare will be honored along with the other previously….
Slew’s Song has been named the 2016 Texas Champion Claimer after an online poll on the Texas Thoroughbred Association’s website. The mare will be honored along with the other previously….
Multiple graded stakes winner Texas Chrome is nearing a regular breeze schedule in preparation for his 4-year-old debut, which could come in the $750,000 Oaklawn Handicap (G2) April 15, trainer….
Saturday’s Maxxam Racing Festival at Sam Houston Race Park featured four stakes highlighted by the running of the $100,000 Maxxam Gold Cup. A field of ten was assembled for the….
The Texas Thoroughbred Association is pleased to announce that it has catalogued more than 100 horses for the second annual Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. It is to be held….
Sam Houston Race Park’s Saturday night card featured two quality fields competing in the Clarence Scharbauer Jr. Texas Stallions Stakes Series. Rumpole pulled a minor upset in the $65,000 Jim’s….
Dual classic winner and 1999 Horse of the Year Charismatic has died. The 20-year-old stallion, who returned to the United States from the JBBA Shizunai Stallion Station in Japan on….
Two stakes were contested on Saturday at Sam Houston Race Park with trainer Steve Asmussen and rider Iram Diego winning both the $50,000 Houston Turf and the $50,000 Sam Houston….
C’Mon Tiger, a stakes-placed son of Storm Cat, has been relocated to Texas for the 2017 breeding season and will stand at Seven S Farms in Mission. He will stand….
Three horses, each for $25,000, were claimed out of the ninth race March 6, 2014, at Oaklawn. However, only one of those horses has developed into a multiple stakes winner…..
Adding to the already significant list of stallions coming into Texas for the 2017 breeding season, a new farm has entered the Thoroughbred domain as Ivy Rose Equestrian Center in….
The Barking Shark, a gallant gelding who competed with many of the best horses of his generation in the late 1990s and earned $572,366, recently lost a battle with colic…..
A new book for young readers chronicling the story of Rachel Alexandra is set to be released March 1. Written by Deb Aronson and published by the Chicago Review Press,….
The Winter 2017 issue of American Racehorse (formerly Southern Racehorse) magazine is now available online by clicking here. This issue of American Racehorse magazine features articles about Colorado’s Centennial Race Track….
William P. (Bill) Mooney, the award-winning turf writer who ranked among Thoroughbred racing’s premier historians of any generation, died peacefully at his Lexington home Jan. 28 after a devastating two-year….
Ivan Fallunovalot, the 2015 Texas Horse of the Year and 2016 Texas Champion Older Horse, worked an easy half-mile Sunday morning at Oaklawn in preparation for his scheduled 7-year-old debut….
It was a superb afternoon of racing at Sam Houston Race Park with exhilarating performances by Unbridled Mo in the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic and another win for….
One week before the city of Houston will host the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, another premier sporting event is certain to delight racing fans….
Sam Houston Race Park has rescheduled the Texas Champions stakes races that were originally scheduled for opening weekend January 20-21. The $50,000 Bara Lass Stakes and $50,000 San Jacinto Turf….
Multiple stakes winner Ivan Fallunovalot, the 2015 Texas Horse of the Year, returned to the track Sunday morning following his half-mile workout Friday and remains on target to make his….
The Texas Thoroughbred Association has announced the 2016 Texas Champions, and the appropriately named Texas Chrome will be honored as the Texas Horse of the Year at the TTA’s annual….