horse racing

HORSE RACING/ Solemia overakes Orfevre to win Arc...
Orfevre, center, after finishing second in the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Oct. 7 (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
PARIS--Outsider Solemia upset the odds by overtaking pre-race favorite Orfevre at the line to win the Arc de Triomphe in a dramatic finish on Oct. 7, giving veteran French...
HORSE RACING/ Anglo-Arabian horses to disappear...
The Last Arabian runs in a race in Hokkaido on June 6. (Yasuhiro Sugimoto)
Anglo-Arabian horses once saved Japan’s horse-racing industry from oblivion and gave ranchers a steady income. But the days are numbered for Anglo-Arabians on the Japanese...
Sports gambling rolls dice on women as sales decline
Female keirin cyclists pose at a news conference on April 24. (Provided by JKA)
With government-sanctioned sports gambling suffering declines across the board, organizers of some events have turned to the fairer sex to try to get back on track.
HORSE RACING/ Orfevre mishap shows his headstrong...
Orfevre (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japanese Triple Trown winner Orfevre proved his willfulness and speed during an extraordinary finish to the Hanshin Daishoten, one of the major events in Japan’s racing...
HORSE RACING/ De Sousa living the Dubai dream
DUBAI -- Last year Brazilian jockey Silvestre de Sousa was plying his trade round the modest north of England circuit.
HORSE RACING/ Triple Crown winner Orfevre nabs...
Orfevre (No. 9) wins the Arima Kinen at Nakayama Race Course on Dec. 25. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
Triple Crown winner Orfevre, who won the Kikuka-sho, Satsuki-sho and the Japanese Derby this year, added another Grade 1 victory to his resume after capturing the Arima Kinen...
HORSE RACING / Orfevre’s Triple Crown win a...
Yasutoshi Ikee, center, with his father Yasuo, left, and his son Yuki. (Photo by Masanori Ariyoshi)
When Orfevre won the Kikuka-sho on Oct. 23 to become the seventh horse to win the Japanese Triple Crown, trainer Yasutoshi Ikee attributed the success to his family's years of...
HORSE RACING / Orfevre claims Japanese Triple Crown
Orfevre (14) becomes the seventh horse in history to win the Japanese Triple Crown after winning Kikuka-sho at Kyoto Race Course on Oct. 23. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
Orfevre became only the seventh Japanese Triple Crown champion ever with a dazzling performance in the 72nd Kikuka-sho at Kyoto Race Course on Oct. 23.
HORSE RACING/ Orfevre closes in on Triple Crown
Kenichi Ikezoe rides Orfevre in the Japanese Derby in May. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The 3-year-old Orfevre will become the first horse since Deep Impact and only the seventh in history to win the Japanese Triple Crown if he wins the Kikuka-sho at the Kyoto...
HORSE RACING/ Triple Crown winner Symboli Rudolf...
Symboli Rudolph wins the Japanese Derby in Tokyo in 1984. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Triple Crown winner Symboli Rudolf died Oct. 4 in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, at the age of 30. The famed thoroughbred was roughly in his 80s in human terms at the time of his...
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