Growing up watching Standardbred racing with his father, 'action junkie' George Sharp has been captivated by horses most of his life. After moving to California in the late 90s, Sharp attended races ...

Circa 1988 the Tennessee walker standardbred breed’s pari-mutuel racing future was at a stand-still. Even as the past few decades showed hope that new racetracks could surface — as the legalization of ...

It has been almost two years since the last thoroughbred horse race in Massachusetts and state regulators on Monday approved a change to shift a greater share of gaming revenues towards the world of ...

The National Standardbred Horse Show will be held Sept. 19 to 21, 2025, at the Horse Park of New Jersey, bringing together elite retired Standardbreds to showcase their talents off the racetrack.

New Yorkers for Harness Racing, a harness racing education and advocacy organization, announced the launch of its website on Thursday, Dec. 4.

The United States Trotting Association took an enormous step forward last week in its efforts to help police the sport of harness racing. The USTA’s new investigative arm, the Standardbred Racing ...

Noah Shachtman’s long-stemmed piece in The New York Times about the state of horse racing in the United States did precisely what disappointing opinion pieces generally do. It makes a deep argument by ...

WKY Development—a joint venture between Churchill Downs Inc. and Keeneland Association—filed an application Sept. 4 with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission requesting live Standardbred racing dates ...

A training center under construction just outside Versailles, Ky., is meant to be a dream scenario for a racehorse – turnout access; two training areas with an all-weather surface; modern, ...

Fraser Downs, a Standardbred track in Surrey, British Columbia, was closed, effective immediately, on Aug. 15. A notice sent to horsemen on Aug. 15 said the City of Surrey, landlord and owner of the ...

October 8 was the Standardbred Owners Association and Yonkers Raceway’s annual “Legislative Pace” event, where state lawmakers suited up in helmets and racing goggles to sit on carts pulled by ...