Horse and Harness Racing

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Look beyond the backyard barbecue this Memorial Day weekend, and you'll find lots to do, close to home. There are many caring and creative ways to remember lost loved ones, as well as relaxing times to enjoy a holiday with family and friends. Fiesta...

Markus Sanders refused to let food poisoning get in the way of setting Modesto Junior College history. Sanders threw the discus 184 feet, 1 inch, a personal-best by 9 feet, en route to his second title Saturday at the California Community College...

Behind top-five finishes in all four women's distance events, the Moorpark College women's track team finished eighth in the two-day CCCAA state track and field championships at College of San Mateo. Sophomore Megan McNally followed up Friday's third-...

BALTIMORE, May 18 (Reuters) - Oxbow won the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday. The victory ended Kentucky Derby winner Orb's hopes for a chance at claiming horse racing's Triple Crown. (Reporting by Steve Ginsburg,...

It's not always in the Preakness Stakes, but every year, John Carroll graduate Nicole Stall urges her husband, trainer Al Stall Jr., to find a race for one of his horses on the third Saturday in May. This year, Departing gave Al Stall his second...

BALTIMORE — Gary Stevens on Saturday became the oldest jockey to win the Preakness, and the Hall of Famer has Clark Masterson to thank. Masterson, a personal trainer based in Bellevue, Wash., helped the 50-year-old jockey lose 25 pounds and nearly...

All Charles Ross had to do to set a world record was finish the race. For him, in this event, the real challenge was making it to the starting line. No one in his age group had ever completed the 2,000-meter steeplechase, at least officially. He would...

May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the World Challenge Meeting Ponce Men/Women on Sunday Men's 100m 1. Jeffery Demps (U.S.) 10.27 2. Ramon Gittens (Barbados) 10.33 3. Dexter Lee (Jamaica) 10.33 Men's 400m 1. Joshua Mance (U.S.) 45.27 2. Kind...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Soccer--Premier League, teams to be announced, 9:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Los Angeles at New York, 12:10 p.m. (ESPN2) Auto Racing--Indy Racing League, IndyCar Indianapolis 500 Bump Day, 11 a.m. (NBCSN); Drag Racing, NHRA Kansas...

Like just about every Division I track and field coach, particularly those in the western half of the nation, UTEP's Mika Laaksonen doesn't have much good to say about the four-year-old concept of a regional meet. But the NCAA West Regional pre limin...

He wore a Carolina blue polo shirt with matching shorts displaying a plaid pattern that ran just below the bottom portion of his knee. A too-tan body, he stood a little over six-feet tall. His droopy eyes were accompanied by charcoal black rings that...