Thoroughbred Charities of America will return as presenting sponsor of the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium this year, the Retired Racehorse Project and TCA jointly announced Tuesday. The Thoroughbred Makeover is the largest and most lucrative retraining competition in North…
Cork's eight-race card was abandoned after four races due to high winds. Among the canceled races was the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Navigation Stakes. The opening four contests on the eight-race card had taken place without incident but persistently…
Recent listed winner Sydney Moon has been added to the October 3 Arqana Arc Sale as a wildcard. The son of first-season sire Thunder Moon, himself a son of Zoffany, will be offered as lot 38. The gelding claimed the…
What a difference a year can make in this business. Less than 12 months after walking away from the yearling sales dejected, breeder Michael Gaffney enjoyed an emotional result when his Modern Games half-sister to Group 1 winner Senorita Bonita…
With a record 25 seven-figure yearlings off to be broken, including three of the top five transactions at the sale concluded at Keeneland the previous day, Gun Runner evidently circulated a memo to his team on Sunday. Champion juvenile filly…
5.30 Kempton, Mdn, 2yo, 8f (AWT) Wednesday's key action centres on two divisions of a one-mile Kempton maiden awash with well-related newcomers, with this one featuring the John and Thady Gosden-trained 240,000gns Tattersalls October Book 2 graduate WOOTTON KING (GB)…
John Salzman, Sr., who trained champion Xtra Heat, passed away Monday. He was 81. Salzman started his training career in 1978, achieved his first victory in 1979, and retired in 2025 with a record of 828 wins and $16,037,554 in…
1st-BEL, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 1:10 p.m. ET Joven (Good Magic), a $750,000 Keeneland September yearling, debuts for Pine Racing Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Legendary Thoroughbreds, Belmar Racing and Breeding and Brook T. Smith, and trainer Danny Gargan. The son of…
Three maidens made this week's list with an 85 Beyer Speed Figure–Yo' Lion and Ember Royale won their races carrying 122 pounds to tie for third, while Dontworryboutnothn finished second. 5-DONTWORRYBOUTNOTHN, CD, 9/25-4th, 6f (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-85 (2nd) (g,…
Alain and Gerard Wertheimer's Loop (Frankel), a son of G1 Prix Vermeille victrix Left Hand (Dubawi), made a winning debut in Tuesday's Prix de Villebon at Chantilly. Positioned in third for most of the one-mile newcomers' heat, the 29-10 favourite…