#World Championships

Few horses have been able to blend the kind of success that Unbridled enjoyed both on the racetrack and in the breeding shed. A strapping, 17-hand colt with a long, ground-gobbling stride, he was slow to develop at 2 after a promising 10 ½-length victory in his career debut. The son of Fappiano was then plagued by a sore hoof at 4, succinctly…

Knicks Go, seen winning the Grade I Pegasus World Cup in January, is favorite for Saturday's Grade I Whitney at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Gulfstream Park Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rich purses drew some top foreign talent for the Saratoga Derby and Oaks on Saturday and Sunday on the upstate New York turf to highlight a big weekend of Thoroughbred…

India's biggest badminton tournament, Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2023 is all set to take off and get bigger than ever at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi from January 17 to 22. As the world's greatest shuttlers will be engaged in high-voltage action at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open-organised by the Badminton Association of India, here are…

It is sometimes called the most important turf meeting in the U.S. this side of the Breeders' Cup. But is the Arlington Million card really all that? The ingredients are certainly there. Impressive purses for three Grade 1 races that have endured for more than three decades. Horses from around the world representing the sport's biggest powerhouse…

Essential Quality, shown winning the Grade I Travers, is among the favorites in a Breeders' Cup Classic field announced this week. Photo courtesy of New York Racing Association Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It's a week for looking forward as horse racing around the globe nears its annual champion-making events and youngsters get in final licks to make a case…

Is it pro road racing season already? It seems like only the other day that we were watching Annemiek van Vleuten take the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, or Remco Evenepoel's joyful World Championships win. Heck, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel are still racing cyclocross. But along with English Premier League and NASCAR, the 10-month…

Michael Schumacher is one of F1's legendary drivers. He turned 54 on the 3rd of January, with his legacy still resonating and impacting the sport today. His achievements are illustrious. The Germans raced from 1991 to 2006, returning in 2010 to 2012. Schumacher's career numbers are mind-blowing. 7 world championships, 91 race wins, 155 podiums, 68…

2023 promises to be a pivotal year in the history of the esports betting industry and with a huge selection of titles to pick from, it should also be an intriguing one for punters too. Alongside the commonly played titles, 2023 will also see the release of a number of new esports games, such as Street Fighter VI, as well as the new EA Sports FC…

Potential Breeders' Cup Horses Work Lexus Raven Run Winner Caramel Swirl Returns To Churchill Downs Conditioner Cox's "Cool Little Horse" Perryville Winner He'smyhoneybadger LEXINGTON, Ky. - Charles Fipke's undefeated Lady Speightspeare, scratched at the gate for the Oct. 16 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana, at Keeneland…

As Keeneland prepares to host the 2022 Breeders' Cup in two weeks, the Lexington, Ky., track continues its October meet Saturday with a graded stakes for filly sprinters. Smash Ticket (5-2) is morning-line favorite for the Grade 2, $350000 Raven Run Stakes. Post time from Keeneland is 5:16 p.m., with FanDuel TV to broadcast the seven-furlong sprint…

Kentucky Derby second-place finisher Mandaloun (pink cap) wins Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. Photo courtesy of Monmouth Park June 14 (UPI) -- Maybe it's a little early to crown Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality as best 3-year-old in the nation, especially after Mandaloun's impressive victory in Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth…

With only one month remaining in the regular season, the Boston Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Rays in a highly anticipated AL East battle. Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Red Sox-Rays prediction and pick will be made. Winners in five of their last six contests, the Red Sox enter this Tuesday evening matchup with not a whole lot of wiggle…

Keeneland Announces Spring Stakes Schedule (Keeneland / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Keeneland Media Team: Keeneland will award a season record $8.05 million for 19 stakes to be run during its 2023 Spring Meet, which will cover 15 days from April 7-28. Leading the schedule are the 99 running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) and 86…

Keeneland will award a season record $8.05 million for 19 stakes to be run during its 2023 Spring Meet, which will cover 15 days from April 7-28. Leading the schedule are the 99 running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) and 86 running of the $600000 Central Bank Ashland (G1), both major targets of the nation's top 3-year-olds. Keeneland has…

Premier League Darts returns to Liverpool for the first time in almost two years on Thursday, with St Helens' Michael Smith hoping to bounce back from his night one quarter-final exit. Due to problems caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, Liverpool was missed off the list of host venues in 2021, though as things return to some sort of normality, that…

A historic 15 weeks after it began, the 2020 Triple Crown drew to a close as Swiss Skydiver crossed the line first in the 145th Preakness Stakes at a spectatorless Pimlico to become the sixth filly to win the race. She was the first filly to run in the Preakness since Ria Antonia in 2014, who finished last. Hall of Famer Rachel Alexandra was the…

New Zealand sprinter Eddie Osei-Nketia figured he'd "try something new." He already holds the 100-meter record in his country. Plus, he's got some rugby experience. "I reckon the boys will hit harder and the tackling technique in American football is going to be way different compared to rugby," he told The Associated Press. "I've just got to be…

British hopes ahead of the dressage World Championships were given a boost at Wellington CDI3* when Imhotep, who is known at home as Pete, produced personal best scores under Charlotte Dujardin to win both the grand prix (77.76%) and the grand prix special (78.36%). Charlotte told H&H after her tests: "Since Valegro, Pete is the one who's given me…

Yearender 2022: Neeraj Chopra Gold: The Thomas Cup triumph made for an epic success story while Neeraj Chopra further enhanced his superstar… By Yearender 2022: Neeraj Chopra Gold: The Thomas Cup triumph made for an epic success story while Neeraj Chopra further enhanced his superstar status with a rare Diamond League title but the cricket team's…

Quarter-finals day at the World Darts Championships begins with Dimirti Van den Bergh taking on Jonny Clayton. Van den Bergh saw off compatriot Kim Huybrechts to reach the quarters for a third time, with Clayton seeing off a dangerous opponent in Josh Rock. Here are our best bets and predictions for Dimitri Van den Bergh vs Jonny Clayton at the PDC…

A decade has now passed since one of the most important moments in recent F1 history: when Lewis Hamilton took the massive step of flying the McLaren nest to bet his future on Mercedes. Of course, with years of success, six world championships and countless victories, it's easy to look back and assume the move was a no-brainer. But it was certainly…

Almond Eye, shown winning the 2018 Japan Cup, is the favorite for Sunday's Grade 1 Tenno Sho (Autumn). Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Oct. 30 (UPI) -- American horse racing is virtually on pause a week out from the Breeders' Cup World Championships, but plenty of action exists around the globe with Almond Eye returning in Japan,…

The fight for Fourth Round berths at the 2023 PDC Darts World Championship resumes on Thursday night at the Ally Pally. Read our darts betting tips for each of the six fixtures lined up for the night. Reigning champion Peter Wright crashed out early against Kim Huybrechts, but 2021 champion Gerwyn Price set a hot pace in storming through to the…

The top two darts players in Belgium will go toe-to-toe in Round 4 of the World Championships on Friday. Dimitri van den Bergh and Kim Huybrechts were teammates during the 2022 World Cup Of Darts, but there will be no love lost as both attempt to reach the Quarter Finals. Here are our best bets and predictions for Kim Huybrechts vs Dimitri van den…

Bellator MMA vs RIZIN Lightweight Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan 1.1.2023, 08:05 Odds Bet Type Bookmaker Claim Bonus! Odds2,80 Bet TypeRoberto Satoshi de Souza to win Bookmaker Bet Now! Roberto "Satoshi" de Souza vs A.J. McKee is the main event of the Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN FF at the Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan. The event between…

We have reached the business end of this year's PDC World Championship and several of the game's biggest names will be believing that this will be their year. As always with the World Championship, several big names have already made an early exit but the likes of Gerwyn Price, Michael Van Gerwen, Rob Cross and Gary Anderson all remain very much in…

Something aches deep within Nate Ebner's chest. Jogging onto a field at the Olympic training center, he begins warming up with a teammate, the two of them stretching, whipping a ball back and forth. "I literally feel like my lungs are sore," he says. The NFL veteran is accustomed to training camp aches and pains, the agony that accompanies…

Video production firm JockeyCam has utilised its state-of-the-art technology to unleash a new 360-degree horse racing experience for racegoers, inviting them to set foot into the world of jockeys by the magic of Virtual Reality (VR). The experience has been developed to give punters first-hand experience of life as a National Hunt jockey. The VR…

Michael van Gerwen continues his quest for a fourth World Championships on Wednesday evening. The tournament favourite will square off against Mensur Suljovic, who comfortably beat Mike De Decker in his opening match. Here are our best bets and predictions for Michael van Gerwen vs Mensur Suljovic on day eleven of the PDC World Darts…

As Formula 1 headed into a brand new era, the FormulaNerds team put our reputations on the line and tried our best to predict what the sport had in store for us during the 2022 season. There were some impressive predictions. There were some…less impressive predictions. Let's dive in and see who amongst our ranks is the true F1 Nostradamus. Deputy…

After a two-week break, the Road to the Breeders' Cup resumes on Saturday with a significant prep at the Jersey Shore anchoring the weekend's stakes activity, which has been adjusted somewhat compared with previous years due to changing track schedules in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The $1 million, Grade 1 TVG.com Haskell Stakes at Monmouth…

She's the star of some of the biggest movies out there: "The Hunger Games," "The Lego Movie," "Pitch Perfect" and more. Banks is also a huge horse racing fan and a Breeders' Cup Ambassador, so you can bet on seeing her at Santa Anita this November! Bonnie-Jill Laflin is a force to be reckoned with: she was the first and only female NBA scout for…

Ever since losing the 2021 NBA championship to the Milwaukee Bucks despite holding a 2-0 series lead, the Phoenix Suns have had to deal with lots of adversity. Last season, they won a league-high 64 games and took a 2-0 series lead over Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference semifinals, only to allow them to force a seventh…

Tournament favourite, Michael van Gerwen will make his first appearance in the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship on Wednesday evening. The three-time World Champion takes on young Welshman Lewy Williams, who came within a whisker of hitting a nine-darter during his first-round match on Monday. Here are our best bets and predictions for Michael van…

Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 4:19 pm |Back to: Breeders' Cup's Director of Racing and Industry Relations Courtney Reid | photo courtesy Courtney Reid By An incentive-based participation bonus program called the Breeders' Cup Dirt Dozen was unveiled by the Breeders' Cup this Thursday. The new program will award monetary credits, funded by Breeders'…

The PDC World Darts Championship 2023 will continue on Sunday with day No 4. The tournament kicked off on Thursday with some real surprises. The most notable surprise was Grant Sampson's win against Keane Barry. Sampson was at odds of 7/1 to win before the match. Reigning champion Peter Wright made it through his first match, defeating Mickey…

BJJ standout Gordon Ryan has been getting strange messages from Bellator fighter and grappler Dillon Danis. Gordon Ryan is rolling in his career, quite literally. The BJJ star has not been beaten in No-Gi competition since 2018 and is fresh off his most recen t win at UFC Fight Pass Invitational 3 this week. In the post-fight interview, Gordon was…

Derma Sotogake (4) wins the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun on Wednesday -- the second leg of the "Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby." Photo courtesy of Katsumi Saito Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Candidates for next year's Kentucky Derby take center stage again in a weekend horse racing schedule that also includes the first "Win and You're In" race for the 2023…

Jockey John Velazquez, riding Authentic, celebrates winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday. Photo by John Sommers II/UPI | License Photo Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Breeders' Cup World Championships, just as they were designed to do, nicely wrapped up some issues for the 2020 racing season, including the "Horse of the…

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The Longines Breeders' Cup Classic is the marquee race for the upcoming World Championships for US Racing. Since it started in 1984, the 1¼m race has ascended to one of the most important races on the global racing calendar. The Classic regularly draws the best horses from across the world that love the dirt track. The race has seen numerous…

A visit to the free-to-enter Hong Kong Racing Museum which overlooks the bend after the stands at Happy Valley racecourse gives an interesting insight into the sport's development in the former British colony. Racing in Hong Kong began as an amateur form of entertainment among the ex-pats in those colonial days but, for what remains a small-scale…

Abel Cedillo / 9 Tyler Baze / 7 TRAINERS / WINS Doug O'Neill / 16 Peter Miller / 9 Bob Baffert / 8 Richard Baltas / 7 John Sadler / 7 Saturday • $100000 Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf) Sunday • $200000 Grade II Twilight Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/8 miles (turf) • It was difficult for David Abrams to see his older…

Three time winner Michael van Gerwen is pre-tournamnet favourite. Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith also fancied by bookmakers. The Professional Darts Corporation's showpiece tournament gets underway this week as a field of 96 players compete in London to lift the biggest prize in the sport. Seven former Champions will be back on the famous stage for…

Over his 16 seasons in the sport Sebastian Vettel notched up an astonishing 53 wins, 122 podiums, 57 pole positions and four world championships. But in leaving Formula 1 the German driver also leaves his fans with countless more emotional and often hilarious memories. We asked our team of writers to name their favourite Vettel moments from his…

The richest two days in horse racing take place Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, with the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. Saturday's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday is the highlight of the 14 races totaling $31 million in prize money. The field features 80-1 longshot…

Arguably the best horse ever to be trained in Hong Kong, Golden Sixty became a household name during the region's strict Covid lockdown period. J A McGrath traces his career ahead of his hat-trick attempt in Sunday's Hong Kong Mile, one of four Group 1 events at the annual HK International Races at Sha Tin Covid lockdown heroes were uncovered in…

The 2022 Darts World Matchplay tournament is approaching the business end as the best of the best go head-to-head in Blackpool. The quarter finals will take place on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of July with the top players playing for a spot in the semi-finals. Three of the World's top four players will be in action. We preview the four quarter…

The Ultimate Fighting Championships returns for a new weekend of incredible fights and an event filled with future contenders and experienced veterans. Besides the main event of UFC Fight Night 214: Rodriguez vs Lemos, the entire fight card is worth watching, and here are our predictions for the most important fights. Chase is a 32-year-old…