As the Keeneland September Yearling Sale nears the end, all figures show a healthy increase from the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020. Realistic reserves and buyers working to fill orders contributed to a record low RNA rate of 12.2% for the session.
Session-topper yielded Tapiture's largest payday of 2021 September Sale
Following a breakthrough triumph in the Longines Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, 3-year-old Bella Sofia will face older fillies and mares at stakes level for the first time in the $250,000 Gallant Bloom (G2) Sept. 26 at Belmont Park.
The Maryland Racing Commission, upon the recommendation of a committee, has approved a motion to modify a regulation on five corticosteroids to eliminate testing threshold levels and employ level of detection for the substances.
Trainer Michael Yates can't think of a more fitting way to honor the memory of Gil Campbell than to saddle Cajun's Magic for a victory in the $400,000 In Reality Division of the FTBOA Stakes at Gulfstream Park Sept. 25.
If everything goes according to plan in the Sept. 25 Turf Monster Stakes (G3T) at Parx Racing, Bobby Flay and Liz Merryman's Caravel will be flying on a plane to sun-splashed Del Mar in six weeks for the $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T).
Three Chimneys Farm and Fern Circle Stables' King Fury headlines a field of seven 3-year-olds entered for the Sept. 25 inaugural running of the $275,000 Bourbon Trail Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Government said Sept. 23 it would listen to "detailed representations" for an early review of the levy after being warned there was a risk that Britain would be overtaken as a global hub of racing if action was not taken to improve its finances.
From limited crops, the son of Speightstown has two stakes winners, including Ricoh Woodbine Mile (G1) winner Town Cruise.
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle Pocket Square and Miss Teheran Sept. 25 in the $200,000 Athenia Stakes (G3T), a 1 1/8-mile inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up at Belmont Park.
An Oct. 5 court date in Brooklyn for oral arguments before Judge Carol Bagley Amon has been scheduled for trainer Bob Baffert's motion to hold the New York Racing Association in contempt for its latest attempt to suspend him.
Emerald Downs announced Sept. 23 a 10% purse increase to its overnight races for the 2022 season. This is the second consecutive year that purses have increased 10%.
With Arlington International up for sale and not applying for 2022 racing dates, the Illinois Racing Board has awarded all live racing action to Hawthorne Race Course.
The Challenge, presented by Gainesway
Woodbine and Delaware Park canceled racing Sept. 23 after heavy rain at the two tracks.
Manager of Buckland, Madden sells at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale
Next Shares retired with nearly $1.9 million in earnings, and Bordonaro won four graded stakes and earned more than $938,000.
Santa Barbara, one of Ballydoyle's brightest talents, has died after a pelvic injury worsened the night of Sept. 22, the star filly's trainer Aidan O'Brien has revealed.
Silver State cuts back to the same distance at which he won the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) for the $200,000 Parx Dirt Mile Stakes Sept. 25 at Parx Racing. The race could set him up for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1).
Highlighted by two high-priced yearlings by young sires, the Sept. 22 ninth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale rose sharply from a year ago.
Black Type Thoroughbreds parlays recent racing success into $250,000 yearling
Woods Edge Farm-consigned colt second-highest price in session nine at $230,000
Harry Kassap's homebred My Thoughts made her debut a winning one Sept. 22 at Delaware Park, providing Anchor & Hope Farm's freshman stallion Editorial with his first starter and first winner.
While Pennsylvania will be the focus of attention this weekend for the 3-year-old crop, another sophomore runner of note will be continuing his comeback in New York.
The Breeders' Cup announced Sept. 22 that arrangements have been made with FedEx to charter two equine flights that will transport horses to California to compete in the 2021 Breeders' Cup World Championships Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar.
Monomoy Girl, the two-time Eclipse Award winner and seven-time grade 1 winner, has been retired from racing after she was discovered to have sustained an injury during training Sept. 21 at Churchill Downs.
A U.S. District Court Judge Sept. 21 granted a request by six states to file a brief supporting a lawsuit led by Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia that argues the structure of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority is unconstitutional.
The motion filed Sept. 22 with the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York calls for admonishment of the New York Racing Association, a daily $5,000 fine, and for NYRA to pay trainer Bob Baffert's attorneys' fees associated with this action.
Zain Claudette will have her date with destiny when lining up in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) Sept. 25, and a big few days for the family began Wednesday when her Exceed And Excel half sister topped the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.
The dates for the traditional Monmouth at Meadowlands meet featuring all turf racing in the month of October have been amended and reduced from nine dates to seven to accommodate harness racing's Breeders Crown championship series.
Look Back: Robert Meyerhoff homebred shook off summer doldrums in Pennsylvania
Richard Golden co-founded Northview Stallion Station with Allaire duPont and Tom Bowman following the close of Windfields Farm in order to keep many of Windfields' stallions in Maryland.
Champion New Zealand mare Avantage will return to the place of her birth after the nine-time group 1-winning Fastnet Rock 6-year-old created one more record before heading off to the breeding barn, selling for NZ$4.1 million.
Four Derby winners from other states converge at Remington Park Sept. 26 as part of an eight-horse field for the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby (G3).
Entrepreneur Tawana Bain and horse racing businesswoman Anita Ebert have joined the Kentucky Derby Museum board of directors.
Paramount Sales is the consignor of the two fillies
The NTRA confirms that Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the United States, has for the first time begun approving debit card deposit transactions with U.S. licensed and regulated advance-deposit wagering companies.
Only four days after selling began at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Kuldeep Singh Rajput of Gandharvi Racing had purchased nine yearlings in partnership with China Horse Club.
Book 4 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale concluded Sept. 21, showing healthy receipts of $20,569,000, a marked increase from the previous year of $12,131,500.
The Racing Medication & Testing Consortium announced Sept. 21 that it has granted full laboratory accreditation to the University of Kentucky Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory.
$320,000 filly out of a sister to Wonder Gadot was bred and consigned by Anderson
Even following Medina Spirit's announced defection from the $1 million Pennslyvania Derby (G1), a grade 1-winning 3-year-old colt remains on the Sept. 25 card at Parx Racing. That colt is Jackie's Warrior in the $300,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (G2).
A pair of Sam-Son fillies sold for $300,000 and $295,000 during session eight
Godolphin's Essential Quality, the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1) winner, retained the No. 1 position for the third consecutive week in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings.
Trainer Wayne Potts has been fined $2,000 by New York stewards and will serve a 20-day suspension for the transfer to him of a claimed horse at Saratoga Race Course in a violation of the state's rules. His suspension runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 19.
When a 2-1 morning-line favorite such as Medina Spirit is scratched from a grade 1 stakes, it's usually good news for the outsiders in the race. But that's not exactly the case with the Sept. 25 Pennsylvania Derby (G1).
The momentum generated at the early yearling auctions continued unchecked during day one of the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale in Newmarket Sept. 21 as a £130,000 son of No Nay Never headed a buoyant market.
Next year's 51st annual Eclipse Awards dinner and ceremony, honoring Thoroughbred racing's champions of 2021, will be held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.
Coming off grade 1 stakes victories at Saratoga Race Course this summer, Steve Asmussen trainees Max Player and Yaupon are early arrivals in Southern California to prepare for Breeders' Cup races Nov. 6 at Del Mar.
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