After a very busy week in horse racing covering racing, conferences, ceremonies, and sales, this week focuses on some major stakes at Colonial Downs and Saratoga Race Course, which hosts one Breeders' Cup Challenge Series qualifier.
After arriving at Colonial Downs Aug. 3, Refai Alghraiban's classy globetrotter Cairo was on the track Aug. 6 ahead of his run in the Arlington Million (G1T) Aug. 9. Trainer Alice Haynes was on hand for the Irish-bred's move over the…
The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association announced Aug. 6 the election of David O'Farrell as chairman of its board of trustees.
David Scanlon and his wife, Blair King, purchase the former Eddie Woods Training Center near Ocala, Fla.
Coming off a victorious run in the Penn Mile Stakes (G3T), Dream On will try to make it four wins from five starts this year in the $500,000 Secretariat Stakes (G2T) at Colonial Downs Aug. 9.
There is a lot of alliteration surrounding the co-feature event at Colonial Downs Aug. 9. Because while Be Your Best brings the credentials to be the likely favorite, Beach Bomb boasts the brilliance to beware of in the Beverly D. Stakes…
After failing to convince Florida legislators earlier this year to decouple its horse racing business from its right to offer slot machine gambling, Gulfstream Park filed a lawsuit that, if successful, would satisfy its goals via court order.
Near the end of the final session of Fasig-Tipton's 104th The Saratoga Sale, Resolute Bloodstock went to $3 million for a son of Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief. The colt is the second foal of the graded stakes-placed Bernardini mare Lady…
Spendthrift Farm signed the ticket for a colt out of their leading sire Into Mischief for $2.6 million on the final night of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 5. He is out of the grade 1-winning mare I'm a Chatterbox.
Zedan and Lanni purchased the sale topper in both of the last two years, and they just missed making it three in a row.