Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction ...

In the climactic scene of the movie "Seabiscuit," the thoroughbred hero wins the Santa Anita Handicap. He breaks slowly and trails the field by an impossibly large margin. As he launches his rally, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The “Race of the Century.” Nowadays, sports fans would call it an “Instant Classic.” On Nov. 1, 1938, in a two-horse ...

In the 1930s, impoverished state governments returned to the potential honey pot of horse racing to increase revenues.

Seabiscuit is considered one of horse racing's greatest longshot stories, so fittingly the race that bears his name at Del Mar provided a massive upset Nov. 29. With a wall of horses battling in the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Michael Sweeney remembers plenty about Saratoga Race Course in the 1920s and 1930s. The lifelong horse racing fan worked at the storied track as a water boy for three years ...

Kretz Racing's Cabo Spirit will try to secure the third grade 2 win of his career and his fifth graded stakes score overall when he faces an expected eight other rivals in the Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published May 4, 2023. It has since been updated. As the 2025 Kentucky Derby prepares for its annual run at Churchill Downs, it's worth looking back on the ...

Seabiscuit is the biggest money-winner—lots of people say that he’s also the best horse—of the year, after all. Almost everyone who went down to Pimlico last Friday believed that without War Admiral ...

The horse appeared in several scenes from the 2003 Oscar-nominated film opposite Tobey Maguire, including the epic race against Triple Crown winner War Admiral Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer ...

While watching "Seabiscuit," the thing that grabs you right away are the racing sequences. They are so real that you feel like you're one of the jockeys in the race. The first race shown is known as ...