Dave Surico

Chief state thoroughbred steward Rene Riera Jr. resigned Wednesday. The action came about after independent Illinois Racing Board and Hawthorne Race Course security department investigations into the start of Tender...

A highlight of Balmoral Park's Great Midwestern Fair weekend is the rubber match between Illinois champion and world record holder Rattle And Rock and Valbowski in the $58,900 Cardinal Pace...

A string of big stakes weekends begins with the Sportsman's Park Breeders' Cup Handicap Saturday. The six-horse field is topped by morning-line favorite Willowbrook Lane, who ran second in the...

A wide trip didn't detour Rompaway Trisha from a record-setting victory in the $113,120 American National Trot for 2-year-old fillies Thursday night at Balmoral Park. Though pressing the pace from...

Jockey Ramsey Zimmerman was admitted to Northwest Community Hospital after a one-horse spill Wednesday afternoon at Arlington International Racecourse. The 18-year-old rider was injured in the seventh race, during a...

The Hawthorne Gold Cup never looked as lustrous as it did after last year's Breeders' Cup. When the hoofbeats stopped from Breeders' Cup XV at Churchill Downs, the last two...

There are many ways to handicap the horses, but a few systems dominate. Most handicappers start at one school, then gradually incorporate one or several others to make their selections....

Trainer Michael Dickinson completed one of the greatest conditioning feats in thoroughbred history Saturday when Da Hoss, who'd run only one race in the last two years, came back to...

Buck's Boy, trainer-breeder Noel Hickey and owner George Bunn ran into racing history Saturday. Buck's Boy became the first Illinois-bred to win a Breeders' Cup race with a front-stepping victory...

Trainer Bob Baffert and owner Mike Pegram found the winners' circle on the first Saturday in November at Churchill Downs when Silverbulletday outdueled stablemate Excellent Meeting near the wire for...