The sale of the Empire City Casino and Yonkers Raceway to MGM Resorts for $850 million is only the latest in more than a century of history. Over the course of its 119-year history, the raceway has ...

Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. From 1936 to 1940, Americans thronged to racetracks to watch the small, ungainly racehorse become a champion. He had an ...

It was June 29, 1936. A low-profile race had just finished at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, and one trainer idled in the sweltering heat, scouting for a prospective buy. He locked eyes with a smallish ...

In the climactic scene of the movie "Seabiscuit," the thoroughbred hero wins the Santa Anita Handicap. He breaks slowly and trails the field by an impossibly large margin. As he launches his rally, ...