Claude R. McGaughey III

Five trainers inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame have strings this year at Oaklawn, including one whose rise to national pro...

Pink Sands made an early statement in the older female dirt sprinter division Saturday with a strong final kick to win Gulfstream Park’s Grade 2, $20...

Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey said Performer exited his triumphant stakes debut in the Grade 3 Discovery at Aqueduct in excellent sha...

Editor’s note: An “Open Letter to the Thoroughbred Community” was released Friday morning on behalf of 16 prominent trainers voicing collective suppo...

Citing a desire to “space his races a little bit more,” trainer Shug McGaughey said Monday that Code of Honor will bypass Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,00...

In 2019, three different horses won legs of the Triple Crown, and in a way, we have a fourth in the picture considering Maximum Security's disqualific...

Six-horse fields aren't typically considered attractive betting races, but that's situational. At times, there is a flawed or over-bet favorite waitin...

Code of Honor will not be one of the favorites when the field makes its way into the starting gate for the 2019 Kentucky Derby, yet there is a whole l...

The next four to five months is an exciting time to sort out contenders from pretenders on the 2019 Kentucky Derby trail. The precocious but dist...

Five years ago, trainer Shug McGaughey and owner Will Farish made the difficult decision of skipping the Breeders' Cup Juvenile with their talented yo...