See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

The state looms large in the sport’s history, and its tracks are stunning. But horse racing in California is going broke.

If you stare blankly at Melbourne Cup form guides and don’t know your fillies from your furloughs, fear not, we’ve got a ...

In Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, Fierceness faces stiff competition from England, in City of Troy, and from Japan, in ...

AGAINST: Turned in a shocker last start in the Moonee Valley Cup (2500m). He led like he did in The Bart Cummings, but then ...

Vets scratched another stayer from the Melbourne Cup as punters backed Buckaroo and Land Legend to win $1 million. But our ...

Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien disagrees with the stewards who withdrew Jan Brueghel from the Melbourne Cup, and believes its ...

Picture: Reg Ryan / Racing Photos “You can have a horse moving really fluidly and well and for any number of reasons … it looks different today,” Dr Forbes said. “If a horse’s gait has ...

Photo by Jeremy Ng/Getty Images. He said his team had done all due diligence in assessing the horses’ condition and was confident the runner was fit for the race. “To say that it’s confusing ...

Punters believe the international brigade are well-positioned to once again take the spoils, with several raiders at the top ...

Each horse in the Melbourne Cup has one final Racing Victoria vet inspection to pass ... by Runner Preview & Tips "They don't talk about their results, they get a set of images, they review them and ...