Jessica Pyfer, the 2021 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey, has retired from race riding to pursue a position as a racing analyst with XBTV/Santa Anita Park.

Starting this week, The Jockey Club Registry is sending an email to individuals listed as the certificate manager of a horse that has had no IR activity and no T.I.P. number in the past two years.

Abel Lezcano was battling for the lead with his horse Christmas Present during the third race at Hawthorne Race Course near Chicago on Sunday when his right stirrup suddenly gave out.

And when a horse falls, its jockey is often hurt, too. A 2013 analysis of about five years of California horse racing data showed 184 jockey injuries from 360 reported falls.

But that payout goes to the horse’s owner, not the jockey who led the horse to victory in the 2-minute-long race. Like caddies at the Masters , jockeys of top-finishing horses receive a portion ...

During the earliest years of the Kentucky Derby, black jockeys rode most of the winning horses. But then Jim Crow arrived and white jockeys took their place. Now a new generation of African-America… ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian jockey Dean Holland died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall during a race in regional Victoria state on Monday, Racing Victoria said. The state's horse ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A horse was euthanized, and its jockey was taken to the hospital, after an injury in one of the races before the Preakness Stakes. Havnameltdown was injured during the Chick ...

Decorated jockey Dean Holland died Monday after he was thrown from his horse near the end of a race in Victoria, Australia Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Grand National jockey Michael Nolan has been slapped with a 10-day ban after his horse fell during the race with the stewards claiming the animal "appeared to have no more to give".

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A horse had to be euthanized and a jockey was suspended following a race at Keeneland Race Track on Wednesday. According to the Keeneland incident report, in Wednesday ...