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All diaper-bottomed babies will have a chance to compete in the eighth annual Diaper Derby at the Sutherlin Blackberry Festival.The derby takes place at 1 p.m. Aug. 17 at Central Park in Sutherlin. Di...

See something suspicious in this sequence? A lone white car is parked in the dark by the state highway, a man standing nearby. When a police patrol car pulls up, the man flees, melting into the dark. ...

— The Texas Racing Commission delayed a vote on whether the Corpus Christi Greyhound Racetrack will begin simulcasting in April and will start live racing in 2010. Rick Pimentel, the track's ge...

(Edited press release) World traveler Archipenko, projected favorite in the $1-million Arlington Million (gr. IT) Aug. 9, accomplished a pedestrian seven-furlong breeze over Arlington’s turf co...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Curlin is heading back to dirt for his next race — the Woodward Stakes at Saratoga — but his majority owner says that doesn't necessarily mean the turf experiment is over.

Curlin will make his next start in the $500,000 Woodward (gr. I) Aug. 30 at Saratoga, Stonestreet Stables’ Jess Jackson told media members Aug. 5, but the majority owner would not commit to send...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -A $1.5-million filly by Storm Cat purchased by Barry Irwin, president of Team Valor International, topped the first of two sessions Monday at the Fasig-Tipton sale of sele...

DUBAI: Dubai Capital Group (DCG) has amassed stakes in a number of Middle Eastern financial firms and aims to purchase more but does not wish to increase its stake in Egypt's Commercial International ...

Land of Believe Farm, located in central Pennsylvania about one mile from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, will be auctioned on site Aug. 21. According to a release, the full-service, t...

Youbet.com said Aug. 5 it was evaluating the effects of a possible merger with TVG during an earnings conference call where the wagering company reported a profit for the second straight quarter. T...

New York-based trainer Gary Contessa has been named president of the Exceller Fund, a non-profit organization that transitions former racehorses into new careers. A Long Island, N.Y., native, Contess...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Louisville-based trainer Carl Nafzger and jockey Edgar Prado led a group of six inductees into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame yesterday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Curlin, the 2007 Horse of the Year, worked five furlongs in 1:02.72 and is "in a beautiful rhythm," his trainer, Steve Asmussen, said yesterday, the day before his next race ...

The fire chief in a Newfoundland town where a man was critically burned in a charity demolition derby race Sunday said everything was done to ensure the event was as safe as possible. Grant Gillard, ...

Racing Victoria has received 67 individual international nominations for Melbourne's three spring carnival feature races.Nominations were received for the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup on...

The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, a small boutique auction that offers quality horses, got off to what the company's chairman, D.G. Van Clief Jr., termed "a solid start " Aug. ...

Storm Cat as the opening session of the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling came to a close Aug. 4. “She’s just awesome looking,” Irwin said after signing the sales ticket. &...

A.P. Indy , named Pyramid Indy, brought $1.2 million to kick off the opening session of the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. The colt, consigned by Fergus Galvin and Adrian Regan&rs...

While most people will watch the 2008 Summer Olympics this month for the competitions and excitement of their home country's Olympic wins, Dr. Grady Miller will be watching for something else – ...

Big Brown wins the Haskell, Brash Dutrow returns: Curlin couldn't win the Derby, we could," Dutrow said. "Curlin couldn't win this race, we could. Curlin got beat [by] a filly. We haven't. Our horse is undefeated on the grass. Curlin isn't. I don't know why people think Curlin is such a good horse. We're way better than Curlin." In his favor, Big Brown won off an eight-week layoff after the worst race of his career, digging deep to get past Coal Play, loose on the lead from the start and running the best race of his career, in the final...