SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Friday night, February 2, marks the start of the 68th season of harness racing over the half-mile oval at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway.The schedule for the 2007 live harness racing season features 170 programs during an eleven month campaign that runs through December 15. Winter [...]

The battle for Barbaro’s life has been put to an end when the horse’s owners agreed to have the champion thoroughbred colt euthanized - thus putting an end to the modern day drama that has caught the country and horse racing world’s undivided attention. Here is a champiion 3-year old thoroughbred, winner of the 2006 [...]

(AFP) - Veterinarians made a risky move by inserting weight-bearing steel pins into Barbaro’s right hind leg but admitted the Kentucky Derby champion has suffered another major setback. Barbaro broke his right hind leg in the early moments of the Preakness Stakes last May while trying to capture the second jewel of US horse racing’s Triple Crown and has been treated here for life-threatening health woes for eight months.

The popular $2 pick five wager on races at coast-to-coast tracks, Magna 5, for a $500,000 guaranteed pool, returns for its fourth season next Saturday, January 28 at Laurel Park. Along with generous payoffs, the fast-paced presentation of five races in about an hour has proven to be an attractive feature of the wager.

Note: Saratoga Gaming Adn Raceway is a racino (race track casino) - it is different from the Saratoga summer thoroughbred horse racing meet.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Saratoga Gaming and Raceway unveiled more of its expansion plans Tuesday. New York State’s first video gaming facility announced celebration plans for its third [...]

Race fixing at harness racing races? What else is new? Oh, the perpetrators were actually charged? Ok, that is new.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Four veteran harness racing drivers are charged with helping fix a race at the Cal Expo track in Sacramento in May.
The allegations are earning the track the derisive nickname “Cal Fix-O” among racing [...]

The 2007 Sunshine Millions Stakes races, the series of eight races worth $3.6 million that matches California and Florida-breds at Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park, is the sport???s richest day of state-bred racing. This year’s races run on Saturday, Jan. 6. Here are the Race Entries, Post Position & Jockeys for the 2007 Sunshine Millions: