Del Mar track management may need to rethink the name of the Del Mar Handicap (G2T) after Gold Phoenix captured the 1 3/8-mile turf event for the fourth year in a row Aug. 30.
Ryan Moore is set to miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right femur, which will rule him out of the Irish Champions Festival, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1), and Breeders' Cup, as well as many other major autumn races.
A civil judgment entered in a New Jersey court Aug. 28 requires Joe Hardoon and his father Jonathan Hardoon to pay Al Gold's Gold Square $450,000 following theft allegations against the younger Hardoon while acting as Gold Square's bookkeeper.
Rigney Racing's Delightful Claire will face a step up in class Aug. 30 when she takes on five 3-year-old fillies in the $175,000 Prioress Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course.
Jupiter Stable's Phileas Fogg is already a graded stakes winner at 1 1/4 miles over the Saratoga main track and will look to repeat that feat in the Aug. 31 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) as he looks for his first top-level stakes victory.
The 12-horse field for the $3.5 million Nashville Derby (G3T) at Kentucky Downs Aug. 30 features dirt grade 1 winners switching surfaces, proven commodities over the grass, and horses on the upswing looking to make a name for themselves.
The catalog is now online for the Inglis Digital USA September Sale, featuring a slate of 65 offerings for a wide variety of buyers, from those looking to build up their racing stables to breeders aiming to grow their operations.
Millionaire Get Smokin, a six-time stakes winner, has retired at the age of 8. The son of Get Stormy, distinguished on the track for his bullish, front-running tactics, will be sent to trainer Mark Casse's farm near Ocala, Fla., for his retirement.
Newtown Anner Stud Farm’s Praying rebounded from a horrible trip in her prior start to post a 3 1/2-length victory in the $169,750 Prioress Stakes (G3) for 3-year-old fillies Aug. 30, becoming the first Saratoga winner for trainer Robert Medina.
Recent grade 1 winner World Beater will leave New York and venture southward with an eye on the $500,000 prize for the Old Dominion Derby (G3T) Sep. 6 at Colonial Downs.
Spendthrift Farm homebred Tommy Jo followed up a July 26 maiden score with an emphatic victory in the $300,000 Spinaway Stakes (G1) Aug. 30 at Saratoga Race Course.
Bellezza rallied from last to first to win the Flower Bowl Stakes (G2T) Aug. 30 at Saratoga Race Course, notching her second graded win and fourth in-the-money finish since being imported from her native Ireland.
Start times for three days next weekend have changed at Prairie Meadows due to an anticipated number of Quarter Horse trials to be held all three days.
Formidable Man, trained by Michael McCarthy, is now 6-for-6 at Del Mar, adding the Del Mar Mile (G2T) to his earlier victory in the Eddie Read Stakes (G2T) during the summer meeting.
Traveling from across the pond and the widest gate in the field of 12, Wimbledon Hawkeye was given a perfectly timed ride by Frankie Dettori to outlast grade 1 winner Burnham Square in the Nashville Derby Invitational (G3T) at Kentucky Downs Aug. 30.
Fierceness easily defeated 2-5 favorite Journalism in a highly anticipated clash between the 4-year-old star and this year's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner in the $1 million Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) Aug. 30 at Del Mar.