| I’ll Have Another wins Preakness | | Kentucky Derby champion I’ll Have Another won the $1 million Preakness Stakes on Saturday to remain on course for the Triple Crown, the greatest prize in US thoroughbred horse racing. | | Chinchon cruises home to win Singapore’s big race | | French raider Chinchon scared off the punters in the parade ring on Sunday but there was no doubting his class when he stormed down the straight to win the S$3-million Singapore Airlines International Cup. | | Frankel scores his perfect 10 | | Trainer Sir Henry Cecil didn’t rule out that Frankel could be seen in the Middle East on the Dubai World Cup night should the Galileo colt remain in training for another season. | | Shathra raring to go | | UAE representative Shathra Al Hajjaj will launch her claim from stall No. 3 as the country’s only participant partners Our Princess in the fifth leg of the HH Shaikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship (IFAHR) is set to break new ground at Newbury Racecourse here on Saturday evening. | | Pepsi drops sponsorship of horse show | | Soft drink maker Pepsi said that it was dropping sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, one day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse in training for a show being beaten by a trainer. | | Horse dies after winning prestigious race | | Arcadius died after winning the Iroquois Steeplechase. The eight-year-old had a heart attack and collapsed while his jockey Brian Crowley was celebrating with the animal and its owner Ed Swyer in the winner’s enclosure Saturday. | | Jockey Club raises prize money | | Britain’s Jockey Club, the owner of race courses including Aintree and Epsom, plans to increase prize money this year to 16.7 million pounds ($27 million) to help offset a decline in funding from the betting industry. | | O’Brien’s filly champion | | Homecoming Queen gave trainer Aidan O’Brien a remarkable English Guineas double here on Sunday romping home in the 1000 Guineas by nine lengths. | | I’ll Have Another wins Derby | | The glorious unpredictability of horse racing produced a fairytale winner of the $2.2 million Kentucky Derby on Saturday when I’ll Have Another stormed to victory in the 138th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. | | Napravnik wins Kentucky Oaks on Believe You Can | | Rosie Napravnik became the first woman jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks when she steered Believe You Can to victory in the 138th running of the three-year-old fillies’ classic on Friday at Churchill Downs. | |
