Mark Pace

There are a lot of things we can debate as the Nov. 6-7 Breeders' Cup World Championships approach: the wisdom of having racing's big event run in back-to-back years at the same track, Santa Anita Park in Southern California; the merits of synthetic surfaces vs. conventional dirt tracks; whether cha...Read More

A few months before jockey Mark Pace died Sunday at a racetrack in Oklahoma, he was washing dishes and sleeping on a back porch at Charlie's II family restaurant, a popular cafe in this small town south of San Antonio. Read More

Blue Ribbon Downs, launched nearly a half-century ago and the first pari-mutuel horse racing track in Oklahoma, will shut down for good next month because of a lack of patron support.Read More

Sadly, word was then received that at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw, Okla., rider Mark Pace was killed Oct. 18 when he was thrown from his mount, Reep What You Sow, after she hit the rail.Read More