NTRA Weekend Stakes Rundown: Kentucky Derby, Oaks Headline Blockbuster Cards
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2019) – Each week, the NTRA will provide a guide to the best stakes races in North America and beyond. Races are listed in chronological [...]
NHC Champs Coles and Kinchen to Appear on “NBC Sports Bet: Derby Special”
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 2, 2019) – Scott Coles, winner of the 2019 National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) and Jonathon Kinchen, winner of the 2015 NHC Tour, will be special guests [...]
Monmouth Park Reaccredited by NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 1, 2019) – The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Monmouth Park has earned reaccreditation from the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance. The Oceanport, [...]
Colonial Downs Joins NTRA
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 30, 2019) – The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) today announced that Colonial Downs, located in New Kent County, east of Richmond, Va., has joined the [...]
Omaha Beach Holding Strong Atop NTRA 3-Year-Old Poll Ahead of Kentucky Derby Run
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2019) –Days out from the 145th edition of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, the high opinion of Grade 1 Arkansas Derby winner Omaha Beach [...]
National Media Teleconference (Porter, Walden, Calhoun)
April 25, 2019 Kentucky Derby Preview Guests Rick Porter, owner, Omaha Beach Elliott Walden, CEO and President of WinStar Farm, co-owner of Improbable Bret Calhoun, trainer, By My Standards [...]
Q&A with Mick Peterson
NTRA Q&A with Mick Peterson Last week, it was announced that National Thoroughbred Racing Association Charities was gifting $100,000 to enable the University of Kentucky to further support equine [...]
NHC Rundown: Trio of Qualifiers Come Out of Horseplayers.com Tourneys
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 23, 2019) – Each week, the NTRA will provide a rundown of those who have qualified for the National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) the previous weekend. The [...]
Little Movement in NTRA Top 3-Year-Old, Thoroughbred Polls
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 22, 2019) – With the prep races for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve in the books and little action in the handicap ranks, the [...]
NTRA Weekend Stakes Rundown: $1 million Charles Town Classic in the Spotlight
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2019) – Each week, the NTRA will provide a guide to the best stakes races in North America and beyond. Races are listed in chronological [...]