At a regular meeting Dec. 12 at Los Alamitos Race Course, the California Horse Racing Board advanced new riding crop rules its chairman called the most restrictive in United States racing. The ...

A regulation passed Sept. 16 by the New Jersey Racing Commission will prohibit jockeys and exercise riders in the state from using the riding crop "except when necessary to control the horse for the ...

Click below to view more coverage from the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com previewing the 149th Kentucky Derby to be held May 6 at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Whipping racehorses for ...

Junior Alvarado, the jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, has sparked controversy after race stewards said he used his riding crop in excess of the allowable limit of ...

A late surge down the closing stretch won Sovereignty the 151st Kentucky Derby, as he outran the morning line favorite Journalism to the finish line. But the way that strong close happened came at a ...