The seventh installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held Sept. 2 and covered women in Thoroughbred racing. The ...

The seventh installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held on Sept. 2 and covered women in Thoroughbred racing.

A Seattle-area woman is leaving her day job to go to the Olympics to help take care of the largest competitors there -- the horses.

Grooms manage the daily caretaking of the horses, and an assistant trainer may oversee that work, handling higher-level decisions.

Grooms use warm water to sponge the horses’ sleek coats, causing steam to rise and linger in the cool air. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Keeping a polo horse looking anything but perfect is career suicide. No, really. Meet Ariel Mazur, 25. A polo horse groom and one of several badass women in the polo community. “I’m still ...

A few new guests have arrived at my home sweet home - all females. And this usually means their human partners are female, too. Woman and the horses that manage them - it is a curious tradition that ...

For 35 years, Anaya has served the sport of racing as a groom. For 22 years, he worked for Bill Shoemaker. For the past 12, he has been part of trainer Doug O’Neill’s team. And his family … “My horses ...