Blood-Horse

Multiple grades stakes winner and millionaire Trinniberg died recently at Haras San Miguel Queguay in Uruguay according to a report by Turf Diario Aug. 5. The 16-year-old son of Teuflesberg won the 2012 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1).

The Major Reduction of Harris Farms, the Thoroughbred operation of leading California breeder and owner John C. Harris, will be conducted on Fasig-Tipton Digital Aug.14-19.

If one avoids the heavy hitters, there is still plenty of cash for a promising 3-year-old Thoroughbred to pursue in ungraded stakes races, as illustrated by the presence of Admiral Dennis in the $300,000 Ellis Park Derby Aug. 10.

HISA has established a Racing Office Advisory Group comprised of senior racing officials from racetracks across the country. It will provide feedback to HISA's executive team and Standing Committees on rules, processes and operational practices

Even some of the best Thoroughbreds are one-dimensional. They want to race on the lead or from the back of the pack, and taking them out of their comfort zone can lead to upsetting results. Then there's Far Bridge.

Jose Ortiz added to his 2025 graded stakes victories with wins Aug. 2 in the Test Stakes (G1) and the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) and a total of nine wins for the week, earning him Jockey of the Week honors for July 28-Aug. 3.

This year's edition of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale not only set records, it smashed them. The sale saw 160 yearlings sell for $100,715,000, up 23% from last year's gross. Average spiked 18% to $629,469 and median improved 5.9% to $450,000. 

There was plenty of anticipation in the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion as the half sister to this year's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism arrived in the ring as Hip 165 for the final session of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale.

The buyer of Flightline in 2019, West Point Thoroughbreds went to seven figures each for a filly and a colt by the 2022 Horse of the Year.

Mike Repole went to $1,025,000 to acquire a half sister to Seize the Grey, by first-crop yearling sire Life Is Good, out of the Mill Ridge Sales consignment Aug. 5 at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale.

Zedan and Lanni purchased the sale topper in both of the last two years, and they just missed making it three in a row.

Near the end of the final session of Fasig-Tipton's 104th The Saratoga Sale, Resolute Bloodstock went to $3 million for a son of Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief. The colt is the second foal of the graded stakes-placed Bernardini mare Lady Kate.

Spendthrift Farm signed the ticket for a colt out of their leading sire Into Mischief for $2.6 million on the final night of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 5. He is out of the grade 1-winning mare I'm a Chatterbox.

Repole Stable and Grandview went to $1.4 million to secure Hip 150, a son of Not This Time out of the Ghostzapper mare Mariah's Princess during the final session of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 5.

On Aug. 9 at Colonial Downs, Duvet Day will race a little further—but not quite as far as she did during her younger days—when she steps up in class to compete in the $500,000 Beverly D. Stakes (G2T) over 1 3/16 miles.

The third race off the layoff angle worked out nicely for Deep Satin in her last start. Now the 4-year-old American Pharoah filly will receive a "litmus test" that should determine the rest of her campaign.

Maiden Watch: Week of July 28-Aug. 3

Florida-bred Thoroughbreds have won 15 graded stakes in 2025, exceeding last year's yearly total of 13, according to an Aug. 5 release from the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association.

Integration, second to Nations Pride in the 2024 Arlington Million Stakes (G1T) at Colonial Downs and three other grade 1s since, is favored to win his first top-tier stakes in the Aug. 9 renewal of the $1 million contest.

An America's Best Racing At a Glance look at the Secretariat Stakes (G2T) lands on Simulate as top play.