John Oxley's multiple grade 1 winner Classic Empire will not run in the Sept. 23 Pennsylvania Derby (G1) at Parx Racing and his connections do not have plans yet for the colt's next start, trainer Mark Casse said Aug. 29.
StarLadies Racing's Orbolution is set to make her stakes debut in Saratoga Race Course's Aug. 31 feature, the $100,000 P.G. Johnson Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.
Dr. Marvin Cain, who advanced acupuncture therapies in Thoroughbreds in the early 1980s, died Aug. 6 at 86.
Multiple grade 1 winner Gun Runner put in his final breeze the morning of Aug. 28 for the $750,000 Woodward Stakes (G1) for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 2.
Keeneland-based trainer Wesley Ward said Aug. 28 that European champion Lady Aurelia would return to Keeneland at week's end from England, where last Friday hard-charging rival Marsha nosed her out to win the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) at York.
With a Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) field that featured this year's three different classic winners and a race card that included reigning champions Songbird and Drefong, Travers day 2017 enjoyed increases in handle.
In guiding 4-5 favorite Barrister Jim to a front-running victory in the fifth race at Belterra Park on Aug. 27, jockey Dean Sarvis secured the 2,000th victory of his career.
Munny Spunt, who crossed the wire second, is now a graded stakes winner after the disqualification of Zapperkat in the $100,000 Torrey Pines Stakes (G3) at Del Mar Aug. 27.
Enstone showed she is a force to reckon with in the 3-year-old Canadian turf filly turf division after a decisive victory in the grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes Aug. 27 at Woodbine.
A field of 11 juveniles are set to contest a wide-open edition of the 1 1/16-mile $150,000 With Anticipation Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 30.
Saratoga Race Course claimed another victim Aug. 26, when 2-5 favorite Songbird was beaten by a neck in the $700,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) by Forever Unbridled.
Plans for the rest of the year are up in the air for Travers Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (G1) winner West Coast, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said Aug. 27
After finishing second by 5 1/4 lengths at Del Mar in her debut, Boss Move returned to romp in her second start by 7 1/2 lengths in a maiden claiming race Aug. 25 to become the first winner for freshman sire Turbo Compressor.
Just as Arrogate burst on the national scene last year with great fanfare in the historic Travers Stakes, so too has his successor, West Coast, a colt Bob Baffert thought so highly of he contemplated running him in the Belmont Stakes.
Exline-Border Racing and Gatto Racing's Giant Expectations, a colt on the rise, seized an opportunity and a spot in the Las Vegas Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) through the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" series.
Free of trouble and with an ideal stalking trip, Don Alberto Stable and WinStar Farm's Battle of Midway thrived by the beach at Del Mar in the $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes Aug. 26.
Three years and one day after Sheep Pond Partners' Lady Eli won in her debut at Saratoga Race Course, the daughter of Divine Park surged down the stretch to pick up a victory in the $400,000 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T).
Trainer Bill Spawr has been fined $3,000 and suspended 30 days for a overage of clenbuterol in Skye Diamonds May 7, when she ran second to Vale Dori in the Adoration Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.
One year after champion Arrogate shipped in from California and turned the division on its ear with his win in the Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), West Coast emulated his stablemate when he registered a victory in the 1 1/4-mile test.
After earning a pair of grade 1 placings earlier this year, Sadler's Joy uncorked a powerful late kick to rally past all six other rivals in the stretch to win the $1 million Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) Aug. 26 at Saratoga Race Course.
After making his mark on Saratoga Race Course with a powerful 2016 King's Bishop (G1) score, Baoma Corporation's champion sprinter Drefong returned to the Spa Aug. 26 and romped in the $600,000 Forego Stakes (G1).
Practical Joke remains unbeaten around one turn and added another top-level triumph to his resume when he ran down Takaful in the stretch to win the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 26.
Jay Em Ess Stable's By the Moon set a slow opening fraction then held off all challenges in the stretch to post a narrow victory in the $500,000 Ketel One Ballerina Stakes (G1) Aug. 26 at Saratoga Race Course.
Charles Fipke's homebred Forever Unbridled handed champion Songbird just the second defeat of her career Aug. 26 when the 5-year-old mare closed down the center of the track at Saratoga Race Course to win the $700,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1).
A compact field of 3-year-old fillies, including three graded stakes winners, highlight the Ontario Colleen Stakes at Woodbine Aug. 27. Yellow Agate, winner of the Frizette Stakes, will try the turf for the first time.
This week there are six grade 1 races at Saratoga Race Course, topped by the Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1).
Anyone who's anyone is running at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 26, where the 148th running of the Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) brings together three different winners of the three Triple Crown races for the first time since 1982.
The New York Racing Association welcomed three-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey Ramon Dominguez to the Saratoga Walk of Fame Aug. 25.
Alpha Delta Stables' homebred daughter of Algorithms remained unblemished in four starts when she recovered from her early bobble to register a handy 6 1/4-length victory in the Aug. 25 Fleet Indian Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
Owner and breeder Ted Aroney said Danzing Candy, who was set to go in the $200,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes (G2) Aug. 26, sustained a fracture in his leg during a morning gallop at Del Mar Aug. 25 and is retired from racing.
John K. "J.K." Adams, a fixture on the Mid-Atlantic circuit who rode 1981 champion sprinter Guilty Conscience, has passed away at the age of 62.
With a Kentucky judge agreeing with many concerns about equine medication and testing policies raised in recent years by horsemen, the industry group that shapes that policy—the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium—defended its approach.
For the first time in months, Tapwrit is coming into a race rested. And if the classic winner lands another power punch in the Aug. 26 Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), it might be the hit that sends the rest of his division sprawling.
Jockey Frankie Dettori raised an arm in celebration after driving Lady Aurelia past the finish in the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) Aug. 25 at York but the jubilation proved premature as the camera found Marsha's closing lunge had her home first.
Paradise Woods followed her record-breaking Santa Anita Oaks (G1) victory with a trying effort as the favorite in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1).
While the Travers Stakes (G1) will occupy much of the racing world's attention Aug. 26, across the continent another group of 3-year-olds looking to make a bigger splash a couple races down the line will square off in the Shared Belief Stakes.
The California Horse Racing Board Aug. 24 advanced a proposal that would set minimum jockey suspension guidelines for careless riding infractions in the state.
The cast of the 1987 Travers Stakes (G1) rivaled any group that had been assembled to that point, and since, with seven grade 1 winners and the winners of that year's classic races shooting for the Mid-Summer Derby.
Kate and Bernie Dalton are a formidable wife-husband, trainer-jockey combination, especially at Saratoga.
Nearly three years to the day after her debut, Lady Eli will try and end her time at the Spa in the same fashion it began when she breaks from the inside post in a field of six for the $400,000 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T) Aug. 26.
Front-running Conquest Big E figures to have the pace edge Aug. 26 at Monmouth Park in the $100,000 Philip H. Iselin Stakes (G3). The 4-year-old stiffest challenge figures to come from Will Farish's classy Eagle.
Juddmonte Farms' superstar filly Enable (GB) shot straight to the lead in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks (G1) Aug. 24, made all the going and romped home first by five lengths.
This week is a recap of the 1995 John A. Morris Handicap (G1) (now the Personal Ensign Stakes) won by Heavenly Prize.
Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith's Cupid may not have performed as well as expected at 2-5 odds in the $75,000 Harry F. Brubaker Stakes Aug. 23 at Del Mar, but the stakes try Wednesday was not the goal.
The pro-tem leader of the female sprint division puts her four-race win streak on the line Aug. 26 when she breaks from post 3 in a field of seven entered for the $500,000 Ketel One Ballerina Stakes (G1) going seven furlongs at Saratoga Race Course.
Niarchos family homebred Erupt is eyeing three consecutive years of grade/group 1 victories.
Perfect in four one-turn races, Practical Joke will try to extend that streak when he cuts back in distance for the seven-furlong H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1) Aug. 26 at Saratoga Race Course.
Owner Rick Porter has a number of reasons in his head as to why Songbird didn't look like Songbird in the Delaware Handicap (G1).
Stonestreet Stables, George Bolton, and Peter Leidel's Lady Aurelia is the narrow favorite for the Aug. 25 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) at York's prestigious Ebor Festival, with Battaash close on her heels in the antepost markets.
Looking to rebound from his last start July 29 in the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1), reigning champion sprinter Drefong will attempt to add another Saratoga Race Course grade 1 to his résumé in the $600,000 Forego Stakes (G1) Aug. 26.
