PLEASANTON — Tuesday marked an emotional final day of training at the Alameda Fairgrounds horse stables and racetrack in ...

Mr. Shachtman’s essay about horse racing gave short shrift to the sport’s upside, including its positive economic impact.

Thoroughbred racing in the United States, according to 2023 data collected by the American Horse Council ... have the standing it did in the days of Seabiscuit, when the gates open for the ...

• Santa Anita has added a racing card for Monday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. The track lost three days during the fires in January and had made up two with additional Thursdays.

After running a lengthy March 2 opinion piece by Noah Shachtman that questioned why so much money from slot machines, casinos and other subsidies was being to paid to what Shachtman describes as a ...

If Express Train wins Saturday’s 1¼-mile Big ’Cap, he’ll be the oldest horse to win Santa Anita’s marquee race since 8-year-old Olhaverry in 1947 (7-year-old winners include Seabiscuit ...

PLEASANTON — Tuesday marked an emotional final day of training at the Alameda Fairgrounds horse stables ... the legendary Seabiscuit once galloped. End of Bay Area horse racing forces families ...

The award, given by Santa Anita since 1950 and named for the Seabiscuit jockey who died ... In Los Alamitos quarter-horse racing, the first- and third-fastest times in Saturday’s 400-yard ...