Category: Horse Racing Betting

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon went to trial Monday on charges of conspiring to fix races in Britain, a day after winning Europe’s most prestigious horse race. Fallon and five other defendants are accused of conspiracy to defraud customers who used the online betting exchange Betfair. They are accused of interfering with the running of horses…

Out of Control beat 10-1 long shot Zann by a nose to win Sunday’s $250,000 Oak Tree Mile at Santa Anita on Sunday, earning a berth in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile. Meanwhile, Idiot Proof claimed a spot in the Breeder’s Cup Sprint and Tough Tiz’s Sis in the Distaff. Out of Control had Michael…

Todd Pletcher knows he has a Breeders’ Cup qualifier in Panty Raid, but he isn’t sure which race — if any — she’ll enter at Monmouth Park later this month. The 3-year-old filly earned an automatic bid to the BC Distaff Sunday by winning the $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes, Keeneland’s fifth “win and you’re in”…

Dylan Thomas beat Youmzain by a nose Sunday to give trainer Aidan O’Brien his first victory at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Europe’s most prestigious horse race. Dylan Thomas won in 2 minutes, 28.50 seconds on good to soft ground, prevailing in a 12-horse field at the 86th edition of the Arc to earn…

Artiste Royal edged The Tin Man by a length Saturday in the $250,000 Clement L. Hirsch Handicap at Santa Anita’s Oak Tree meeting. Ridden by Joe Talamo, Artiste Royal ran 1 miles on the turf course in 1:59.89 and paid $11.20, $3.80 and $2.80. The Tin Man returned $2.20 and $2.10, and Isipingo paid $3.80…

Donato Hanover matched the fastest mile ever by a trotter, winning the $742,000 Kentucky Futurity in 1:50.1 on Saturday at The Red Mile Donato Hanover matched the record set earlier in the day by Giant Diablo and set a record for 3-year-old colt trotters en route to his 19th straight victory. Driven by Ron Pierce,…

Breakdowns — at least two of them fatal — marred a record slate of stakes races Saturday at Keeneland in which four horses earned automatic spots in the Breeders’ Cup. Teuflesberg, the 17th-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, pulled up short in the Grade 3 Phoenix Handicap with fractures to both front legs.

Nick Zito just loves the Champagne, and he was all smiles in the winner’s circle after War Pass gave the trainer his fifth victory in the oldest stakes race for 2-year-olds. “The Champagne is a top race, and it’s been a pretty good race for us,” Zito said after War Pass cruised to a 1…

Finallymadeit beat Bow Out by 6 1/2 lengths Saturday in the $50,000 Hooting Star Stakes at Calder Race Course. Finallymadeit, ridden by Eduardo Nunez, ran 5 furlongs in 57.75 and paid $3.20, $2.60 and $2.10. Bow Out returned $5 and $2.10, and Tale of a Monster paid $2.10 to show.

Breakdowns — at least two of them fatal — marred a record slate of stakes races Saturday at Keeneland in which four horses earned automatic spots in the Breeders’ Cup. Teuflesberg, the 17th-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, pulled up short in the Grade 3 Phoenix Handicap with fractures to both front legs.

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Diamond Stripes took the lead in midstretch and then survived a foul claim by runner-up Magna Graduate’s jockey to win the $500,000 Meadowlands Cup by a half-length Friday night. Jockey John Velazquez claimed Diamond Stripes and jockey Cornelio Velasquez interfered at the top of the stretch, but the stewards at the Meadowlands Racetrack found nothing…