The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will roar over Daytona International Speedway before the start of the Daytona 500.

John Shirreffs won the 2005 Kentucky Derby and three Breeders' Cup World Championships, including the historic 2009 victory of Zenyatta.

Italian tracks are rated by the Ministry of Agriculture. In turn, the Ministry of Finance allocates purses according to their class rating. Ippodromo del Mediterraneo holds the distinction of being ...

Famed for a ‘horse-first’ approach, Shirreffs won a Kentucky Derby with longshot Giacomo and won a stakes race at Santa Anita two weeks ago.

​A beloved figure in the horse racing world who scored two big wins at Oaklawn has now passed away.

The racing world he had served with such quiet distinction for nearly five decades is immeasurably smaller for his absence.

Zenyatta and Giacomo's trainer John Shirreffs passed away quietly in his sleep at the age of 80 in California Feb. 12 ...

Trainer John Shirreffs, who upset the 2005 Kentucky Derby with the 50-1 longshot Giacomo and rode the crest of the wave with Horse of the Year Zenyatta for 19 straight victories, has died at the age ...

He became a horse trainer almost by happenstance, but he guided perhaps the greatest mare of all-time to a Hall of Fame career and won the Kentucky Derby with a longshot.