Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of the sinking of passenger liner Athenia, the first British ship to be sunk in World War II when a German submarine U-30 fired one torpedo into its side. The ...

Sheep Pond Partners, Alain Jathiere, Thomas Coleman, and Elayne Stables' Rymska , the 4-1 third choice in a field of seven older fillies and mares, rolled to a 2 1/2-length score over stablemate New ...

The once-beaten Unbridled Humor will try to make it two Grade 3 wins in a row when she lines up Saturday for the $100,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park, a 1 1/16-mile test over the Widener turf. The ...

In potentially her final start, Klaravich Stables' Technical Analysis opened up a comfortable lead right out of the gate and then held off stablemates Beaute Cachee and Fluffy Socks to lead a Chad ...

The 6-year-old mare Babae, favored at 8-5 under highweight of 120 pounds, pulled away to a daylight lead on the far turn under Jorge Chavez and easily held off the late run of Strawberry Blonde to win ...

On Sunday 3rd September 1939, within a few hours of war being declared the Donaldson Liner Athenia, bound for Montreal with passengers of many nationalities who had boarded at Glasgow, Belfast and ...

This is an account of the events leading to the marriage of my mother, Gertrude Glenn of Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland in the fall of 1939. There are no family members alive today who ...