Distance figures to be Hill Road's friend as the season progresses as the three-year-old colt needed nearly every bit of the 1 1/8 miles of Saturday's $200,000 Peter Pan (G3) at Aqueduct.

After racing too keenly and lasting by just a neck in the Columbia S. at Tampa Bay Downs, Zulu Kingdom was able to settle better in a stalking role in Saturday’s $924,780 American Turf (G1).

The Brad Cox stable continued its recent cleanup of lucrative worldwide dirt stakes for older horses when First Mission rallied in between rivals in the stretch to take the $1.25 million Oaklawn H. (G2) on Saturday.

After foiling a pair of Godolphin hotpots during the Dubai Carnival, British shipper Choisya ended trainer Chad Brown’s streak in Saturday’s Jenny Wiley (G1) at Keeneland.

If his performance in Friday's $552,013 Maker's Mark Mile (G1) is any indication of what to expect the rest of the season from Carl Spackler, the rest of the turf miler division will have a hard time keeping up.

Upsets were prominent on Tuesday's Blue Grass Day undercard at Keeneland, the biggest being Positano Sunset's 14-1 surprise over the favorite Emery in the $623,338 Madison (G1) for fillies and mares.

While the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) was Saturday’s main event, Festival Day 45 also included four supporting stakes.

On a stakes-packed Saturday at Santa Anita, Locked impressed with an 8 1/2-length demolition of the historic Santa Anita H. (G1).

Speed was the name of the game in both points races on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.

2024 might have been the Year of the Dragon, but in the land of U.S. Thoroughbred racing, it was the Year of the “Grizzly.”

The finalists for the 2024 Eclipse Awards were announced on Sunday, except for the identities of the Horse of the Year candidates.

Flavien Prat has made it a habit to break records in 2024, and the jockey turned in his latest rewrite of history during Thursday’s opening-day festivities at Santa Anita.

Unplaced in four previous graded stakes attempts, Loved struck a new career high in Thursday’s Falls City (G3) at Churchill Downs.

A moderate pace was of no great help to the favored Integration in the $300,000 Red Smith (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday.

Sierra Leone won Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar decisively over three-year-old rivals Fierceness and Forever Young.

Former Canadian Horse of the Year Moira, who ran well in defeat in the past two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), made it third time lucky in Saturday’s renewal at Del Mar.

Godolphin homebreds took center stage on opening day of the Churchill Downs fall meet as Sovereignty and Good Cheer dominated local preps for the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1).