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Cigar Mile 2026 Schedule: What Time and How to Watch

NYRA's year-end dirt mile moves to the rebuilt Belmont Park for the first time. Here's the date, what we know about the time and TV, and the horses still pointing to it.

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Who Is Forever Young? Japan's Champion Racehorse and 2025 Classic Winner

After a fifth in the 2026 Classic, the two-time Saudi Cup winner is set for one last race in Tokyo on Dec. 29, then stud duty in Japan. Here's his record and what's next.

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Gran Premio Nacional 2026 Schedule: What Time and How to Watch

Argentina's Derby closes the Triple Crown at Palermo as part of the track's 150th-anniversary celebrations. Here is the final start time, how to follow it and who rides whom in the 14-horse field.

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Can Horses Go on a Bus? The Detroit Video and Service-Animal Rules

Two saddled horses walked onto a city bus in Detroit and out the back. The city says that's not allowed. Here's why, and what the service-animal rules actually say about horses.

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Horse News

New World Screwworm in Horses: 2026 Texas, New Mexico, Arizona Cases

Arizona confirmed its sixth screwworm case on Nov. 10, a horse near Pearce, so three of the state's six cases are now horses, and New Mexico has a new horse case in Eddy County. Here's what it means, how to run a daily wound check and what's changing for hauling and shows.

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Who Was Tom O'Brien? The Jockey Behind Dream Alliance's Welsh National

The retired jump jockey rode more than 1,000 winners in Britain and Ireland. Racing is remembering him for Thyme Hill, two Welsh Nationals and a village horse that became a movie.

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