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The New York Racing Association announced Aug. 15 that Irad Ortiz is the recipient of the 2025 Mike Venezia Memorial Award. 

International bloodstock agent and farm manager Michael Motion, father of Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Graham Motion, has died at 95.

The Minnesota Thoroughbred Yearling Sale will be held Aug. 24. The catalog features yearlings by Kentucky stallions and out of stakes-producing mares.

"I wouldn't trade him for anybody else in the race," trainer Josie Carroll says of her King's Plate contender Notorious Gangster. The 3-year-old son of Classic Empire will be ridden by Fraser Aebly in the first leg of the Canadian…

Last running in the Swedish Derby, Kentucky-bred Queen Azteca is set to make her United States debut in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 16 for trainer Niels Petersen and Team Valor International.

After a record-breaking yearling sale at Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale, consignors are hopeful that momentum will carry across the Atlantic at the upcoming Arqana August Yearling Sale.

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 266 entries for its California Fall Yearlings Sale, to be held Sept. 23, at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.

Sara Elbadwi looks ahead at the Alabama Stakes & the Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga.

Mark and Leo Dobson discuss running Notorious Gangster in the Aug. 16 King's Plate at Woodbine.