This week on the Thoroughbred racing calendar is relatively light on graded stakes, with the marquee event – the Claiming Crown card showcasing claiming horses – occurring Saturday, Nov. 14, at Churchill Downs.
Tickets are on sale now for the 56th Annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards, which will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2027, at The Breakers Palm Beach. Tickets to the black-tie event are available at the NTRA website. Eclipse Awards Finalists will be announced on Saturday, Jan. 2. Each Finalist will receive two seats complimentary courtesy of The Jockey Club. Ticket availability is limited and a full sellout is expected.
If you’ve opened this story you probably are interested in the Kentucky Derby but might not know a whole lot about horse racing or the Triple Crown. Never fear, America’s Best Racing is here to help.
The Kentucky Derby is the most-watched horse race of the year in the United States and is widely considered one of the most important sporting events in the country, having grown to become much more than just a horse race since Aristides won the first edition in 1875.
“The Racetracks of America: From the Pre-Civil War Days to the 21st Century,” a 440-page history of Thoroughbred racing venues nationwide, won the 20th Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Nov. 4 during an evening ceremony in Lexington.
At 5 years old at Saratoga Race Course, Andie Biancone imagined the horses were her diner customers. “I would pretend that I was a waitress, and I’d pick grass for all the horses. I’d deliver the grass to their stalls and pretend like I was working in a diner and they were my customers. I got the horse bug from there. I was running at school, and I would gallop like a horse.
