Blood-Horse

The sun was not yet shining on the old Kentucky home when Mystik Dan made his first appearance on the Churchill Downs track since etching his name into racing history with a nose victory in the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).

The Preakness Stakes (G1) picked up a new entrant May 8 as trainer Butch Reid said Withers Stakes (G3) winner Uncle Heavy will run in the May 18 second leg of the Triple Crown at Pimlico Race Course.

Bravo, who holds the track record with 13 titles, will be based at Monmouth Park again this summer after a brief hiatus.

Nearly two hours after the May 4 Kentucky Derby, the first son of grade 1 winner Carina Mia to race earned his maiden victory at Churchill Downs.

Monmouth Park and Caesars Entertainment celebrated May 7 the start of construction on a trackside sportsbook and entertainment complex that will raise the bar for sports wagering and race viewing venues in New Jersey.

Juveniles take center stage on the Gulfstream Park turf course May 11, as a pair of $120,000, five-furlong stakes will award an automatic berth to one of six 2-year-old races held at the Royal Ascot meeting June 18-22.

In its second year as an official partner of the Kentucky Derby and the only sportsbook to offer parimutuel wagering on horse racing and traditional sports book wagering, FanDuel experienced increases in key metrics across the board.

The New York Racing Association announced May 7 a lucrative participation bonus program for owner and trainers at the four-day 2024 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.

Exports by Age shows where registered Thoroughbreds exported from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico are going by country. The age groups range from weanlings to 11-year-olds and up.

Buyers' appetite to reinvest in a bloodstock market despite trepidation about what the wider picture may look like over the next 12 months helped push the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale to a record turnover.

A new British Horseracing Authority policy will permit an on-the-day switch between flat turf and all-weather tracks when the original racing surface is deemed unraceable and the fixture would otherwise have to be abandoned.

Topped by a quartet of graded races, Colonial Downs unveiled its 2024 stakes program consisting of 27 races worth $5.7 million for the 27-day season which runs from July 11 through Sept. 7.

Prominent New Jersey owner and breeder John Bowers Jr., whose Roseland Farm Stable boasts an impressive list of state-bred stakes winners, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Virgil "Buddy" Raines Distinguished Achievement Award.

Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan vaults into first place in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's top 3-year-old poll thanks to his nose victory at Churchill Downs May 4.

Brian Hernandez Jr. had a weekend that most jockeys can only dream about as he won both the May 3 Kentucky Oaks (G1) with Thorpedo Anna and May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1) with Mystik Dan at Churchill Downs.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged nearly 500 horses to its Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale to be held May 20-21 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.

An AU$575,000 (US$379,500) I Am Invincible (AUS) filly and a AU$370,000 colt by Capitalist (AUS), the two-highest priced foals sold during a record-breaking opening Inglis Australian Weanling Sale session May 6, will head to New Zealand.

In addition to the expansion in television coverage, NYRA Bets becomes the title sponsor of Monmouth Park's $1 million Haskell Stakes (G1) and Pegasus Stakes. The Haskell Stakes will headline the July 20 card.

Soldier Hollow, a highweight racehorse in Germany and Italy and a perennial leading sire in Germany, where he also has topped the broodmare sires list, has died at the age of 24. 

Frank Stella was an artist of the postwar era whose seminal talent encompassed multiple genres, which was abetted by a passion for Thoroughbred racing and breeding. He died at his home in the West Village of Manhattan May 4. He was 87.