Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby champion and runner-up to Wise Dan in last month's Breeders' Cup Mile, will begin his stud career in Australia after the 2013 racing season, his owner said Friday.

Fort Larned stole the show with a brave victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, out-duelling Mucho Macho Man and leaving favorite Game On Dude in the dust.

Shanghai Bobby won the $2 million, 1 1/16-mile Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Saturday, holding off He's Had Enough in a dramatic stretch duel to remain unbeaten in five career starts.

Game On Dude drew the fifth post and has been installed as the early favorite for Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Classic, highlight of the $25 million Breeders' Cup card.

A new points system will be used starting in 2013 to determine the 20 starters in the Kentucky Derby, replacing graded stakes race earnings as the way to decide which horses make the field.

Union Rags charged along the rail in the final moments to edge Paynter by a head and win the 144th Belmont Stakes on Saturday in the final event of American horse racing's Triple Crown.

I'll Have Another, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will not run in Saturday's 144th Belmont Stakes, trainer Doug O'Neill announced on Friday, ending the colt's bid for a US Triple Crown sweep.

I'll Have Another, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will not run in Saturday's 144th Belmont Stakes, trainer Doug O'Neill announced on Friday, ending the colt's bid for a US Triple Crown sweep.

I'll Have Another, the chestnut colt who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness last month, will try to become only the 12th horse to sweep the US Triple Crown by winning Saturday's 144th Belmont Stakes.

I'll Have Another's run for US racing history in the Belmont Stakes will start from the No. 11 post on Saturday -- a perfect position for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner trainer Doug O'Neill said.

Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another won the 137th Preakness on Saturday, charging down the backstretch to edge Bodemeister by a head for a victory that sustained his Triple Crown bid.

While Kentucky Derby runner-up Bodemeister is the oddsmakers' favorite for Saturday's 137th Preakness, the trainer of Derby winner I'll Have Another is confident of victory.

Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another will leave from the ninth gate in Saturday's 137th Preakness, two spots outside where Derby runner-up Bodemeister was drawn on Wednesday.

Police are probing the death of a man whose body was found in a Churchill Downs barn a day after the fabled racetrack hosted the Kentucky Derby, Louisville Metro Police said Sunday.

I'll Have Another won the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, surging past Bodemeister in the final straight to claim the first jewel in US flat racing's Triple Crown.

Trainer Bob Baffert is counting on talent to overcome a lack of experience when he sends early favorite Bodemeister out on Saturday in the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby.

Zenyatta, US racing's 2010 Horse of the Year, has foaled a colt sired by 2006 Preakness winner Bernardini, the great mare's connections said Friday.

(Reuters) - Hansen rebounded from his only career defeat to claim a decisive victory in the $400,000 Gotham Stakes on Saturday and maintain his status as a Kentucky Derby favorite.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A placid Pekingese slowly trotted to victory on Tuesday at the 136th Westminster Kennel Club dog show, beating a Dalmatian, a German Shepherd, a Dachshund and three other canines to become the first of his breed to win the prestigious annual event since 1990.

It has been around for over 3,000 years, but Mexico's famous, usually hairless, "Xolo" dog is making a big splash as a "new breed" at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show here this week.