While the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) was Saturday’s main event, Festival Day 45 also included four supporting stakes.

On a stakes-packed Saturday at Santa Anita, Locked impressed with an 8 1/2-length demolition of the historic Santa Anita H. (G1).

Speed was the name of the game in both points races on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.

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.

Flavien Prat has made it a habit to break records in 2024, and the jockey turned in his latest rewrite of history during Thursday’s opening-day festivities at Santa Anita.

Unplaced in four previous graded stakes attempts, Loved struck a new career high in Thursday’s Falls City (G3) at Churchill Downs.

A moderate pace was of no great help to the favored Integration in the $300,000 Red Smith (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday.

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

Former Canadian Horse of the Year Moira, who ran well in defeat in the past two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), made it third time lucky in Saturday’s renewal at Del Mar.

Godolphin homebreds took center stage on opening day of the Churchill Downs fall meet as Sovereignty and Good Cheer dominated local preps for the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1).

Potential Breeders’ Cup contenders were out in full force for a trio of graded stakes on Sunday afternoon at Aqueduct.

Odds-on favorite Ways and Means sailed through Sunday’s Gallant Bloom (G2) at Aqueduct, her tune-up for the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1).

On a stakes-packed inaugural California Crown Day at Santa Anita, First Peace won the Eddie D (G2), Cabo Spirit stunned the John Henry Turf Championship (G2), and Toupie wired the Unzip Me S.