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The Daily Racing Form (DRF) (referred to as the Racing Form or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America .
Statistics on the year's record of every racehorse, racehorse owner, racehorse trainer, and racehorse breeder are also part of the content along with track speed records and world records. Articles about subjects connected with the racing industry as well as analyzing trends and developments from the year are also included.
This is a listing of the top attended stakes races for thoroughbred racing in North America by year. The chart lists the paid attendance of the eight top average attended races including the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and its companion race the Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky; the Preakness Stakes on Saturday and its companion race the George E. Mitchell ...
The Rachel Alexandra Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually in February at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $300,000.
Most prep season races will award points changing from 10-4-2-1 to 10-4-3-2-1. Select prep season races will be increased from 10-4-2-1 to 20-8-6-4-2. These include Lecomte Stakes, Southwest Stakes, Withers Stakes, Holy Bull Stakes, Robert B. Lewis Stakes, Sam F. Davis Stakes and the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes.
Clement L. Hirsch Turf Championship Stakes (renamed the John Henry Turf Championship) Goodwood Stakes (renamed the Awesome Again Stakes) Harold C. Ramser Sr. Handicap (renamed the Autumn Miss Stakes) Lady's Secret Stakes (renamed the Zenyatta Stakes) Las Palmas Handicap (renamed the Goldikova Stakes) Morvich Handicap (renamed the Eddie D Stakes)
The Grade III Street Sense Stakes, held on October 29 at Churchill Downs was added to the Early Prep Season; The Grade III Sham Stakes was included in the original list of events, but Santa Anita Park did not schedule the event in 2024; Santa Anita Park decreased the distance of the Robert B. Lewis Stakes from 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles to one mile
Each year the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association releases a list of stakes for thoroughbred horses. The Committee grades stakes and handicaps into three grades: Grade I, Grade II and Grade III. The largest races are Grade I. The committee uses as criteria for the grading: