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The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will host a pedigree and conformation clinic Oct. 20 at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky in Lexington during the Kentucky October Yearlings sale.

Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. was injured Sept. 21 when he was dislodged from his mount in the third race at Churchill Downs.

The free lifetime starts for Thoroughbred breeders service, which was launched earlier this year, has been expanded to include all registered racehorses as well as younger horses that are registered but have not reached the track.

The Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearling Sale has produced many stakes winners over the years, including 2022 graduate and multiple stakes winner Pushiness. Barton Thoroughbreds will offer a half sister to Pushiness by Bodexpress.

Jockey Kazushi Kimura rode his 1,000th winner Sept. 20 when Tee N Off won the fifth race at Los Alamitos Race Course.

Eduardo Terrazas' broodmare band is small in numbers, but mighty in results, most recently proven when Brotha Keny, a product of his breeding program, won the $300,000 Bourbon Flight Stakes Sept. 20 at Churchill Downs.

The enduring appeal of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is reflected in reports from France Galop that advance ticket sales are ahead of the same point in any of the last five years, with particularly strong interest from British and Irish racegoers.

Classy 2-and 3-year-old New York-breds will be featured in four stakes events Sept. 22 at Finger Lakes.

Having owned horses for about 40 years in Brazil and Uruguay, Ricardo Felizzola always dreamed of racing in America. Thanks to No Bien Ni Mal, he is now a graded winner in the United States after just two starts.

A severe thunderstorm bringing heavy rain and lightning through the area caused Gulfstream Park to cancel its final five races Sept. 21 out of an abundance of caution for horses, horsemen, and fans.

Old Tavern Farm’s homebred Hit the Post cruises to victory in the Ontario County Stakes Monday at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.

Old Tavern Farm’s homebred Hit the Post, second in back-to-back stakes going two turns, shortened up Monday and delivered as the heavy favorite in the $50,000 Ontario County Stakes at Finger Lakes.

Hit the Post didn’t provide his connections or backers – who hammered the son of Kantharos down to 1-9 in the field of four – with any anxious moments aside from a slightly slow start in the 6-furlong Ontario County. Under Christopher Elliott, Hit the Post recovered from that start and took command over his three foes up the backstretch.

Hit the Post clicked off an opening quarter-mile in :23.37 ahead of 12-1 third choice Rockinmoney with the 8-1 Rock Star Rebel and 26-1 Cast a Coin a little further back. Hit the Post continued on an easy lead into and through the turn, going past the half in :46.59 and well in hand.

Well clear off the turn and into the stretch, Hit the Post zipped past 5 furlongs in :58.65 ahead by 6 lengths and widened from there. He won by 6 1/2 lengths over Cast a Coin, who edged Rockinmoney for the place spot. Hit the Post won in 1:11.

Hit the Post, second in the July 14 New York Derby at Finger Lakes and second in the August 21 Albany Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, prepped for the Ontario County with trainer Melanie Giddings’ string at Saratoga’s Oklahoma Training Track. A maiden winner at Saratoga June 6, Hit the Post improved to 2-for-7 with two seconds and a third with earnings of $168,783.

Foaled at Old Tavern Farm in Stillwater, Hit the Post is the fifth foal out of the winning Medaglia d’Oro mare Memento d’Oro. Walt and Michelle Borisnok’s Old Tavern Farm bought Memento d’Oro in foal to Ghostzapper from the Stronach’s family’s Adena Springs for $160,000 at the 2016 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

Memento d’Oro is the dam of four winners led by Hit the Post. She’s also the dam of New York-bred winners Seahorse d’Oro and Salsa a Parte, and winner and $131,610-earner Healy’s Hope. She’s also the dam of a yearling New York-bred colt by Charlatan, who RNA’d as a weanling for $127,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale; and a weanling colt by Proxy born April 3 in New York.

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Coolmore stallion Practical Joke was represented by his 50th stakes winner Sept. 20 when Gurney Halleck won the Henry Mercer Memorial Stakes at Charles Town.

Four stakes for 2-year-olds—including a pair of graded races—highlight the six-day Winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos Race Course Dec. 5-14.

Canterbury Park concluded its 2025 season Sept. 20 with an increase in average daily attendance and daily average on track wagering remaining consistent with the prior season.

Record-breaking Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale buy Sir Delius announced himself as a spring staying force with a win in the Sept. 20 Underwood Stakes (G1), supplying Juddmonte Farms' Frankel with his 40th group 1 winner in the process.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale concluded Sept. 20, with the highest gross sales ever achieved at a Thoroughbred auction. At the end of 12 sessions, 3,076 horses had changed hands for a record $531,634,400, including post-ring sales.

Off three straight wins at Canterbury Park, Mad House shipped to Parx Racing and pulled the upset in the $400,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (G2) Sept. 20 to give trainer David VanWinkle and owner James Thares their first graded victories.

Despite a slow start, Godolphin homebred Ragtime rallied from sixth and drew clear in the stretch to win the $300,000 Dogwood Stakes (G3) by 2 1/4 lengths Sept. 20 at Churchill Downs.

Cool Kiss, sent off at 17-1, gets up in the final jumps to win the $112,348 Durham Cup Stakes (G3) Sept. 20 at Woodbine.

Haulin Ice is headed to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) as the highest-earning Arkansas-bred in history after crushing her foes in the $200,000 Princess Rooney Stakes (G3) Sept. 20 at Gulfstream Park.