by HorseMinute.com | Dec 22, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
In a viral TikTok video posted just before this year’s Kentucky Derby, social media star Griffin Johnson was seen helping wash Sandman, a horse he partly owns and that was preparing to race. The video garnered over 300,000 likes and highlighted Johnson’s growing...
by HorseMinute.com | Dec 22, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
Damon Thayer and Liza Hendriks have been appointed to the board of directors of Amplify Horse Racing, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting youth and young adults to education and career opportunities in the Thoroughbred racing industry. Thayer, who left...
by HorseMinute.com | Dec 21, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
Tsubasa Wada, a promising Japanese jockey born into a horseracing family, suffered a severe brain injury in a 2018 race accident that caused temporary amnesia. After a swift recovery and return to racing, including competing in a G1 race, Wada struggled with...
by HorseMinute.com | Dec 21, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
Expert tipster David “Gator” Gately expressed strong frustration over the unexpected and problematic performance of the Caulfield Heath track on a recent Saturday, where no horse positioned further back than fourth was able to win. Having praised the track’s...
by HorseMinute.com | Dec 21, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
Express Kid, a 2-year-old colt bred in California and initially sold for just $2,000 at an Arizona auction, stunned the horse racing world by winning the $300,000 Remington Springboard Mile Stakes at 34-1 odds. Trained by Wade Rarick and ridden by jockey Jose L....
by HorseMinute.com | Dec 21, 2025 | Horse Racing Industry
A group of top American jockeys, led by four-time Eclipse Award winner Javier Castellano, defied U.S. State Department warnings about the dangers of traveling to Venezuela to participate in a high-profile Thoroughbred racing event at Caracas’s La Rinconada Hippodrome....
