Horse Academy

Updated Nov 4, 2026

The hottest horse topics right now

Game updates

Updated Nov 4, 2026

By a Nose

Your first day now reminds you to keep an order for the race tonight.

Free game

Hoofprint Ranch

Care for your horse, ride with others and build a shared ranch.

Updated Nov 4, 2026

Stable Pal

Stable Pal now loads faster, so you can start playing sooner.

Updated Nov 2, 2026

Barrel Race

A tip on the start card now shows how to round the first barrel

Game 1 of 4: By a Nose

Top stories

Racing

Clasico del Caribe 2026 Schedule: What Time and How to Watch

The Caribbean's biggest race returns to Puerto Rico for its 60th anniversary. Here is the date, what we know about the time and TV, and which horses have tickets so far.

5 min read

Horse Culture

Expogan Guasave 2026: Cabalgata, Charreada and Dancing Horses

Nearly 1,000 riders paraded through Guasave to kick off Sinaloa's first Expogan del Norte. Here's what horse events to see, when, and how to enjoy them well.

5 min read

Buying & Costs

Fasig-Tipton November Sale 2026 Results: $5M Ways and Means Tops

The November Sale ran on Nov. 2, two days after the Breeders' Cup, and passed $100 million again. Here are the results, what's next for unsold champion Shisospicy, now retired, and how to read a mixed-sale catalog.

6 min read

Buying & Costs

Keeneland November Sale 2026: $5.2M Quietside Tops Book 1

A graded stakes-winning 4-year-old carrying a Nyquist foal topped the opening session of Keeneland's November breeding stock auction at $5.2 million. Here is what sold, what it means and how this kind of sale works.

6 min read

Racing

Who Is Shisospicy? The Champion Sprinter Retired to Be a Broodmare

Morplay Racing kept its Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner after she failed to meet her reserve at Fasig-Tipton. Now she starts the second, slower career that decides a champion mare's legacy.

6 min read

Health & Alerts

Strangles in Horses: Symptoms, Quarantine and the Fall 2026 Boarding-Barn Outbreaks

Three horses at Grand National-winning trainer Richard Newland's English yard tested positive, halting all runners and horse movements, after a fall of strangles alerts across the US and Ontario. Here's how to spot it, how it spreads and how a quarantine ends.

12 min read

Story 1 of 6: Clasico del Caribe 2026 Schedule: What Time and How to Watch

Also trending

See all: Trends

Topics

All topics

Latest

Health & Alerts

See all: Health & Alerts
Hot

West Nile Virus in Horses: 2026 Cases, Symptoms and How EEE Differs

10 min read

Buying & Costs

See all: Buying & Costs

Horse News

See all: Horse News

Competitions

See all: Competitions

Horse Care

See all: Horse Care

Fun & Viral

See all: Fun & Viral

Training

See all: Training
See all trends

Join the herd

Ask questions, brag about your horse and talk about the trending stories with other horse people.

Go to the community

Games

Hoofprint Ranch

Care for your horse, ride with others and build a shared ranch.

Play Hoofprint Ranch

All horse games

Care for a virtual horse in Stable Pal, build a stable, race the barrels and more.

See all games

Learn the basics

New to horses? Start with these guides.