As of 12:25 p.m. EDT, Tiz the Law is a 1-5 favorite in advance wagering for the Aug. 8 Midsummer Derby at Saratoga Race Course. Of the $33,268 wagered to win so far, $20,690 has been placed on the 3-year-old son of Constitution.
My Girl Red, a 2-year-old filly by Texas Red, pushed her record to 2-for-2 for trainer Keith Desormeaux and owner Eric Brehm Aug. 7 by winning the $150,500 Sorrento Stakes (G2) at Del Mar by 4 3/4 lengths.
Trainer Steve Asmussen couldn't recall a prize to match his gifts for winning the 115th running of the $150,000 Saratoga Special Presented by Miller Lite (G2) with J. Kirk Robison's Jackie Warrior.
Spielberg, a $1 million yearling who is slated to contest a six-furlong maiden special weight Aug. 8 at Del Mar will face Superman Shaq, a half brother to champion Monomoy Girl, and Waspirant, whose dam was a grade 1 winner.
Purses at Arlington International Racecourse will be raised 20% during the middle portion of its summer meet, according to levels listed in its recently released second condition book. That period covers racing there from Aug. 20-Sept. 12.
Santa Anita Park's autumn stakes schedule will be similar to those from past seasons. The track has planned 24 stakes, 15 graded, over 18 racing days from Sept. 19 through Oct. 25.
Racing commentary with Jay Hovdey
The Aug. 8 Yellow Ribbon Handicap (G2T) at Del Mar presents another sizable opportunity to Sir Prancealot, the European stallion who has become something of a surprise hit in the United States.
The memory of Sherwood Chillingworth, the longtime director and executive vice president of the Oak Tree Racing Association, will be honored with the Chillingworth Stakes to be run during Santa Anita's autumn season.
As she was in 2003, Robin Smullen remains Barclay Tagg's experienced and trusted assistant trainer, and more importantly in the grand scheme of life, she has bonded with him emotionally as a life partner.
Racing will go ahead at the Curragh Aug. 9 despite a partial lockdown in County Kildare starting at midnight Friday, which will see movements restricted once again.
Top Racing, Global Thoroughbred, and GDS Racing Stable's Bodexpress will look to dominate the $85,000 Alydar, a 1 1/8-mile test for 4-year-olds and up that have not won a stake this year other than state-bred, at Saratoga Race Course.
The horse racing industry lost an avid horsewoman earlier this summer with the death of Dolly von Stade Bostwick Jr. on June 20 at age 66 at her home in Indiantown, Fla.
The champion 2-year-old male of 2019, Storm the Court is the leading money earner in the eight-horse La Jolla Stakes (G3T) at Del Mar Aug. 9, a grass race that also drew stakes winners Azul Coast, Indian Peak, Kanderel and Smooth Like Strait.
To broadcast Aug. 8 Travers Stakes beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET
Wesley Ward has three entered in the $75,000 Tyro Stakes Aug. 8, a five-furlong turf sprint at Monmouth Park, including Fauci, a promising juvenile who broke his maiden in his second start.
Bruce Lunsford's homebred Art Collector lands the favorite's role for the Aug. 9 Runhappy Ellis Park Derby. A field of 12 was drawn for the nine-furlong race, worth $200,000 and run four weeks prior to the Run for the Roses.
Dave Litfin analyzes Saturday's graded stakes action from the Spa.
Trainer, co-owner, and co-breeder Larry Jones hopes a class break will help Street Band return to winning form Aug. 9 at Ellis Park when the 4-year-old daughter of Istan starts from an outside post in the $100,000 Runhappy Groupie Doll Stakes.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society announced Aug. 6 that the Direct Livestock Marketing Systems will be providing online bidding for all of the 2020 CTHS sales.
Most recently at Sequel Stallions New York, Teri and Buster Brown moved to Edition because they wanted to switch to running a smaller operation. The couple has managed their own and others' farms across the country for 35 years.
Lightning Moon, the winner of the group 3 John Guest Bengough Stakes at Ascot and first-season sire in Spain, has died from laminitis at the age of 9.
Finding something positive to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is surely as difficult as finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Trainer Michael McCarthy breezed two of his leading 3-year-olds, Speech and Rushie, Aug. 6 at Del Mar toward probable stakes starts in September.
To align with required health measures implemented in New York, horse owners planning travel to New York from any of the states currently listed on the New York Travel Advisory are required to complete a mandatory 14-day quarantine upon arrival.
Ontario Racing Management is excited to announce the appointment of Jonathan Zammit as its new Executive Director, succeeding Katherine Curry who held the position since the formation of Ontario Racing in 2018.
If the prototype of the ideal racehorse is an individual that has breeding and looks to negotiate two-turn dirt races and shows zip on the track, then Country Grammer fits the bill.
Prize money for this year's QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot has been slashed by £1.7 million as the figures for the marquee October raceday were announced Aug. 6.
The Road, Presented by Spendthrift Farm
Vekoma, the top-ranked horse in the NTRA's Top Thoroughbred Poll, remains targeted for the Forego Stakes Presented by America's Best Racing (G1) at Saratoga Aug. 29 after having a workout delayed by a foot bruise, trainer George Weaver said.
When trainer Bob Baffert tosses around a term such as "brilliant," his trusted friend and longtime client Mike Pegram knows what to do.
Following second-quarter losses announced by Churchill Downs Inc. last week, Penn National Gaming Inc. reported a net loss of $214.4 million in the second quarter of 2020, compared to $51.4 million net income over the same period in 2019.
Collusion Illusion became Twirling Candy's fourth grade 1 winner in the Aug. 1 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at Del Mar. A consistent leader, the Lane's End stallion has been on a hot streak.
The $200,000 Troy Stakes (G3T), one of two grade 3 stakes on the Saratoga Race Course undercard, drew a field of seven headed by Patricia Generazio multiple grade 3 winner Pure Sensation.
Cool Enough became the first winner for first-crop sire Tamarkuz in leading throughout on her way to a 5 1/4-length score in a $20,600 maiden claiming race at Colonial Downs Aug. 5.
When the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the reconfiguring of the Triple Crown races, the Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1), and other races at Saratoga of major importance for 3-year-olds, Parx's two grade 1 events for sophomores became the odd ones out.
Blue Devil Racing Stable's homebred Come Dancing will try to sprint her way to back-to-back titles in the $300,000 Ballerina Stakes (G1) Aug. 8 at Saratoga Race Course.
The prospect of Gamine actually stepping up her game has to be unsettling to her rivals in the Aug. 8 Longines Test Stakes (G1) for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga Race Course.
Days after a successful second brain surgery to address complications related to an early June procedure that removed a benign brain tumor, trainer Joe Sharp returned to work this week, observing morning breezes at Churchill Downs Trackside.
Haydock's Sprint Cup meeting has been suggested as a possible option for Jockey Club Racecourses to host a trial of racing with spectators, with Newmaket and Sandown regarded as the group's other most obvious courses for scale and timing.
As the 2020 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) prep season continues, Churchill Downs will roll out a final Kentucky Derby Future Wager this weekend and classic winner Tiz the Law is expected to be favored.
Jeanne Mirabito died Aug. 5 following a long battle with cancer. She created the Our Mims Retirement Haven in 2007 as a retirement home for famous and not-so-famous mares.
Tropical Storm Isaias came to Saratoga Race Course, but it could not conquer the Spa's renovated main track.
Owners will be required to be on the owner reservation list, provide their CHRB owners license, and undergo a full COVID-19 health screening including a temperature check.
Parx Racing jockey Hector Caballero was issued a 10-day suspension by track stewards there for "misuse of the riding crop" after striking his mount Belongs to Babe after the finish of the 10th race at Parx July 27.
Slam Dunk Racing and Medallion Racing's Beau Recall may have just skated to victory by a nose in last year's Yellow Ribbon (G2T), but the mare will try to defend her hard-fought title when she returns for the Aug. 8 renewal at Del Mar.
Look Back: Man o' War in the 1920 Miller Stakes
Speaking during his daily press briefing Aug. 4, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear suggested he would like the see the crowd "thinned out" and "some changes" from Churchill Downs in its plan to allow limited spectators at the Kentucky Derby (G1) Sept. 5.
Changes to the anti-doping rules were announced by the British Horseracing Authority in order to simplify the circumstances under which responsible individuals can avoid penalties for positive tests for prohibited substances.
Jack Knowlton's Sackatoga Stable has notched rather impressive checkmarks for a stable that historically has six or less horses, even in the best of times.
