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A Not This Time half-brother (hip 227) to MGSW/GISP Forbidden Kingdom (American Pharoah) sold for $3,000,000 to the partnership of Winchell Thoroughbreds and Coolmore just three hips from the end of Tuesday's session. Out of Just Louise, the colt was…
A colt by Gun Runner (hip 200) out of MGSW/GISP Four Graces sold for $4,000,000 to Hunter Rankin, marking the Flying Dutchmen's fifth seven-figure purchase of the night. His track record-setting first dam is herself a half-sister to MGSW/GISP McCracken…
Godolphin's Sovereignty is atop the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll following his 4 3/4-length, come-from-behind victory against a star-studded field in the Aug. 8 Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
Miss Monica, Caribbean Life, and Embouteillage are the latest BloodHorse Maiden Watch Hot Prospects after first-out victories in recent days.
The 2026 Kentucky Downs meet will feature 20 stakes races with $25.75 million in total purses. The seven-day racing season opens Aug. 29 and continues Aug. 30, Sept. 3, Sept. 5-7, and Sept. 9, offering stakes action every date.
Keeneland has cataloged 4,635 horses for the 83rd edition of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which will cover 12 sessions Sept. 14-26. The catalog is now online.
When the CA$1 million King's Plate, the oldest continuously run horse race in North America, is renewed Aug. 15, the rail-drawn Luster will be heavily favored to become the 40th filly to win the 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.
Burnham Square is scheduled to have some international competition when racing in the Sept. 5 Kentucky Downs Turf Cup Invitational Stakes (G2T). Irish-based 2025 Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) upsetter Ethical Diamond is another intended starter.
Crisis was averted at Delaware Park in the late evening hours of Aug. 10 as a small barn fire was extinguished by a sprinkler system. No injuries to horses or humans were reported.
At the Racing and Gaming Conference at Saratoga, HISA independent ombudsman Alan Foreman notes important areas where the independent enforcement agency that launched fully in May 2023 has moved racing forward.