Forever Young earned a well-deserved first U.S. success Saturday in the $6.37 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar, a first for a Japan-based horse.

The entire complexion of Sunday’s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) changed in the opening strides at Saratoga,

Fresh off a victory in the Whitney (G1) at Saratoga, champion Sierra Leone bids for a Breeders’ Cup Challenge double in Sunday’s Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1).

With the pressure slightly off in Saturday's $1 million Whitney (G1), last year's three-year-old champion ended his hoodoo at the Spa with a convincing last-to-first rally under Flavien Prat.

Sierra Leone and Fierceness will have a fifth meeting in their rivalry, but their first this year, in the $1 million Whitney (G1) at Saratoga.

As the racing season begins its second half next week, owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher hold pocket aces in the older male dirt division.

After the concurrent losses by Fierceness and White Abarrio in the Metropolitan H. (G1) earlier this month, the leadership of the older male dirt division appears wide open.

Touchuponastar, a son of Louisiana, did the home state proud at Fair Grounds on Saturday, leading throughout to win the $480,000 New Orleans Classic (G2) while simultaneously handing reigning three-year-old champion Sierra Leone a decisive knockout.

While the Louisiana Derby (G2) is the marquee race on Saturday's program at Fair Grounds, the marquee horse competing on the card is reigning three-year-old colt champion Sierra Leone.

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.

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

***Updated after the draw with post positions and morning line odds

Racing fans hoping for an epic 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby (G1) on Saturday at Churchill Downs got their wish. In the closest finish for more than a quarter century, Mystik Dan hit the wire a desperate nose in front of Sierra Leone.