Kretz Racing's Cabo Spirit will try to secure the third grade 2 win of his career and his fifth graded stakes score overall when he faces an expected eight other rivals in the Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T ...

Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The “Race of the Century.” Nowadays, sports fans would call it an “Instant Classic.” On Nov. 1, 1938, in a two-horse ...

In the 1930s, impoverished state governments returned to the potential honey pot of horse racing to increase revenues.

Seabiscuit was not an impressive-looking horse. He was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep in his stall rather than exercise. He’d been written off by most of the racing industry after ...

If differences of opinion make for horse races, those races do not necessarily settle the arguments. So although the epic showdown with War Admiral in 1938 at Pimlico is widely portrayed as Seabiscuit ...

Seabiscuit is considered one of horse racing's greatest longshot stories, so fittingly the race that bears his name at Del Mar provided a massive upset Nov. 29. With a wall of horses battling in the ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published May 4, 2023. It has since been updated. As the 2025 Kentucky Derby prepares for its annual run at Churchill Downs, it's worth looking back on the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Michael Sweeney remembers plenty about Saratoga Race Course in the 1920s and 1930s. The lifelong horse racing fan worked at the storied track as a water boy for three years ...

Seabiscuit is the biggest money-winner—lots of people say that he’s also the best horse—of the year, after all. Almost everyone who went down to Pimlico last Friday believed that without War Admiral ...