A little more than six months ago, it looked like trainer Richard Mandella had an emerging star ready for a start in the ...

In this week's edition of On Racing, Jay Hovdey recalls great female sprinters of the past and looks at the July 5 Great Lady ...

The top female sprinter meets Sweet Azteca, Super Shine, One Magic Philly, two others in Saturday’s Great Lady M. Stakes.

The ambitious young jockey and the top-ranked female sprinter are favored in Saturday’s Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos.

Sweet Azteca and Kopion are set to meet for the first time, their battle coming in a Los Alamitos stakes named for the D.

Kopion was 37-1 in the La Brea, but favored in a four-horse field at 6-5 odds when she won the Santa Monica. Bred in Kentucky by the Tall Oaks Farm of Ontario-based Ivan and Colleen Dalos, ...

Also cutting back, but from a fourth-place finish in the Santa Anita Oaks, Kopion landed her first Grade 1 victory in the La Brea, sizzling to 2 3/4-length win, as a 37-1 longshot.

• Kopion (with jockey Kazushi Kimura) is a heavy, 3-5 favorite on the morning line for the Great Lady M. Stakes on Saturday, but not because her competition is weak in the Grade II sprint.

Kopion put herself on the national radar; she’s No. 8 in this week’s National Thoroughbred Racing Association poll, second among females behind 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (No. 4) and ...

Kopion, who broke from the No. 2 post position, raced along the inside in the long run down the Churchill Downs backstretch, situated in sixth position and about four lengths behind front-running ...