Godolphin’s Naval Power (GB), runner-up to stablemate and Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner Master of The Seas in the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) at Keeneland on April 12, tops a field of 11 entered Saturday for the $1-million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (GI) for 4-year-olds and up to be run May 4 at Churchill Downs.
E Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ Carl Spackler (IRE), a two-time graded stakes winner in 2023, will make his 2024 debut when he headlines a field of 12 for the 19th running of the $350,000 Opening Verse for 4-year-olds and up going a mile on the Matt Winn Turf Course to highlight the 11th edition of Thurby presented by Old Forester at Churchill Downs.
Bregman Family Racing, WWBD and Edge Racing’s three-time stakes winning No Nay Mets (IRE) headlines a field of 12 3-year-olds plus three also-eligibles entered Wednesday for the ninth running of the $300,000 William Walker (Listed) going 5 ½ furlongs on the Matt Winn Turf Course on Champions Day at Churchill Downs.
Nine new members have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. The class of 2024 is comprised of jockey Joel Rosario and racehorses
Pleasant Acres Stallions is pleased to announce the confirmation of mares in foal for all five of the Florida stallion station’s newest stallion additions in 2024.
Nine racehorses, six trainers, and two jockeys account for the 17 finalists that will comprise the National Museum of Racing’s 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the Museum’s Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.
Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., announces the arrival of graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Verifying (Justify out of Diva Delite, by Repent) for the 2024 breeding season.
O'Connor will enter Saturday's $150,000 Harlan's Holiday (G3) with the opportunity to earn a berth in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) Jan.
Iapetus Racing and Diamond T Racing's Grade 2 winner Gigante heads a full field of 12 3-year-olds and three also-eligibles entered for next Sunday's 18th running of the $300,000 Commonwealth Turf (G3), the featured event on closing day of the 2023 Fall Meet at Churchill Downs.
Cuvee, a Grade 1 winner and veteran sire, has died due to complications related to chronic heart failure, the Turkish publication Yaris Dergisi reports.
Smokin' T grabbed the lead with a furlong to run and drew clear late to win Saturday's 44th running of the $289,858 River City (G3) at Churchill Downs by 1¾ lengths over Harlan Estate.
Nathan McCauley, Michael Olszewski and William Minton's Wise Dan Stakes (Grade 2) winner Stitched headlines an over-subscribed field of 15 turf specialists that entered Saturday's 44th running of the $300,000 River City Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs.
More Than Looks displayed an impressive closing kick to rally from the back and easily win Saturday's 43rd running of the $200,000 Jefferson Cup for 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs by 2¾ lengths over Smokey Mandate.
Graded stakes winner and former classic starter Disarm, runner-up in the Travers (G1) Aug. 26 at Saratoga, will not start again this year and has been sent to Dr.
The $1.25 million Travers will see the winners of each of the three legs of the Triple Crown and last year's Champion 2-Year-Old Colt all vie for superiority amongst a wide open 3-year-old male division.
Travers Stakes Features Derby Winner Mage vs. Jim Dandy Winner Forte By Ellis Starr – National Racing Analyst for Equibase The Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes drew a strong field of seven, with three entering the race off stakes victories.
The field is set for the 154th running of the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers on August 26 at Saratoga Race Course, which will see the winners of each of the three legs of the Triple Crown and last year's Champion 2-Year-Old Colt all vie for superiority amongst a wide open 3-year-old male division.
Multiple Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Fulsome, a millionaire son of perennial leading sire Into Mischief from a deep Juddmonte female family replete with black type, has been retired and will stand the 2024 breeding season at Gary Broad's Walmac Farm in partnership with Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock, the farm announced today.
Trainer Greg Foley will attempt to keep his stakes hot streak intact when Bernard Racing, Tagg Team Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds and Terry Stephens' O Besos makes his 5-year-old debut in Saturday's $125,000 Jeff Hall Memorial at Ellis Park Racing & Gaming in Henderson, Ky.
Three Chimneys announced that Horse of the Year and champion sire Gun Runner, a six-time Gr. 1 winner and the second leading all-time money earner in North America with $15,988,500 in earnings, will be available to cover mares on Southern Hemisphere time.
A pair of Grade 1 turf contests for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park take center stage on the United States racing calendar this weekend: the Belmont Oaks and Belmont Derby Invitational.
The New York Racing Association will host a Cross Country Pick 5 on Saturday featuring an all-stakes sequence from Belmont Park and Horseshoe Indianapolis.
Winchell Thoroughbreds racing manager David Fiske outlined plans for several of the stable's top runners, including Matt Winn Stakes (G3) winner Disarm, champion Echo Zulu, and Wicked Halo, who is entered in Saturday's Bed o' Roses Stakes (G2).
Churchill Downs' unexpected suspension of races for the remainder of the meet did little to hinder the June 11 $400,000 Matt Winn Stakes (G3), which will now be run two hours west of the Twin Spires at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky.
Gainesway Stable's Spendarella, a winner of four of five starts including the Del Mar Oaks (G1), headlines a field of eight for the 38th running of the $500,000 Longines Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2) for fillies and mares racing over the Matt Winn Turf Course at Churchill Downs.
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