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An exciting eight-race card brings in the New Year at Meydan Racecourse Jan. 2, when group 1 winners Audience and Dark Saffron are among those who will be in action.

While Sovereignty reigned over North American racing as its earnings leader in 2025, Thoroughbred racing's winningest horse of last year, Sharp Warning, carved out his own distinction far from the spotlight.

BloodHorse has reprised its online year-end survey to ask some of the sport's leading individuals for their opinions on pertinent issues facing the sport.

Letters to the Editor, for the Jan. 1 edition of BH Daily, includes reaction to the Racing Symposium as well as BH Daily's "Looking Ahead to 2026" series.

Manny Franco paced all riders to secure top honors as the leading jockey at the New York Racing Association with 206 wins across the circuit's six race meets in 2025. Linda Rice was the top trainer and owner.

Hill 'n' Dale announced Dec. 31 the appointment of Jes Sikura to the position of director of bloodstock at Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa.

Retired jockey and Thoroughbred aftercare advocate Rosie Napravnik will return to Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Jan. 3 to lead the sixth annual “New Vocations Day at the Races.”

Oaklawn Park executive Louis Cella and the late trainer D. Wayne Lukas will be part of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame's 2026 class, the ASHOF's 68th overall.

Horse Racing Alberta has approved the 2026 budget, reflecting a disciplined approach in response to current economic conditions while maintaining strong support for the province's racing and breeding industries.

Universe, a closing second in the 2025 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) after two earlier graded stakes placings, aims to turn the stakes corner as a newly turned 3-year-old in the Jan. 3 Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

After breaking her maiden by an impressive 3 lengths over Woodbine's all-weather track Nov. 29, Dunmore Beach will make her dirt debut Jan. 1 in the $175,000 Cash Run Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

The Florida Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association and Gulfstream Park announced Dec. 31 a three-year agreement that, with each passing year, lowers the minimum number of required racing days at Gulfstream Park in South Florida.

Kazushi Kimura did not originally have a mount in the American Oaks (G1T) opening day, Dec. 28, at Santa Anita Park, but that changed when fellow jockey Antonio Fresu was injured in the seventh race and Kimura picked up the mount aboard Ambaya.

Santa Anita Park canceled racing Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 due to a strengthening rainstorm coming in from the Pacific Ocean.

If you've attended the Preakness Stakes (G1) in recent years, you're no doubt well aware of trainer Brittany Russell.

The Hipódromo Camarero will host the Puerto Rican Best Jockeys Event Jan. 6 as part of a 10-race program celebrating the Clásico Día de Reyes.

Parx Racing and the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association announce the addition of three Thursday race dates in January 2026: Jan. 8, Jan. 15, and Jan. 22.

BloodHorse has reprised its online year-end survey to ask some of the sport's leading individuals for their opinions on pertinent issues facing the sport.

Spendthrift Farm's blue-blooded homebred Tamara, a talented filly who has battled physical problems since winning the 2023 Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1), has been retired.

Jockey Orlando Mojica rode Charles Garvey's Logical Myth to victory in the fourth race at Turf Paradise Dec. 30 for the 3,000th win of his career.