Blood-Horse

Racketeering claims filed in a lawsuit against Hawthorne Race Course by a fired veterinarian were dismissed by a federal court judge who concluded the allegations do not meet required legal thresholds.

Amid frustrations from retail gamblers over a series of dramatic odds changes, Del Mar announced July 29 it would close access to its win pools by computer assisted wagering players at two minutes prior to the off time for each race.

Congrats, who earned nearly a million dollars during his racing career before having a successful career as a stallion, died of natural causes in Florida July 28. He was 25.

Following a third consecutive graded stakes victory, coming in the July 26 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at Saratoga, 3-year-old Sovereignty has supplanted 4-year-old Mindframe in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll.

BH Interview: Winchester Farm's Marie Yoshida

The Jockey Club announced July 28 that Marc Holliday and Bret Jones have been elected stewards. Holliday operates Blue Devil Racing Stable and Jones is president of Airdrie Stud near Midway, Ky.

On the July 28 episode of BloodHorse Monday, Gabby Gaudet discusses her new role as Keeneland's director of communications and jockey Perry Ouzts talks about breaking the all-time start record by a jockey in North America.

Charles Allen is set to take up the position as chair of the BHA and bring forward his radical agenda for change after agreement was reached on the way forward for British racing at a lengthy board meeting of the governing body July 28.

Vinery's Ole Kirk has built an unassailable lead over his first season rivals with more than AU$500,000 now separating him from Coolmore's shuttler Wootton Bassett in second place.

This year's German One Thousand Guineas (G2) winner Lady Ilze will be offered in a pop-up sale on the Tattersalls Online platform beginning Aug 4 at 3 p.m.

The catalog for Goffs Orby Book 2 features 433 yearlings. Catalog highlights include a Saxon Warrior sister to dual group 3 winner Greenland and an Acclamation filly out of a half sister to Irish Two Thousand Guineas (G1) winner Siskin.

White Abarrio recorded his final workout July 28 for the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 2. He completed three furlongs in :35.43 outside of company.

Of all the horses that have made their mark at Saratoga over the course of the racetrack's 150-plus years of horse racing, one horse became synonymous with the historic upstate New York venue more than any other.

Newmarket trainer Alice Haynes will aim to advance her international record this summer with Cairo, who is set to compete in the Aug. 9 Arlington Million (G1T) and the Mint Millions (G3T) stakes for Kuwaiti owner Refai Alghraiban.

Due to extreme heat conditions in the area, Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa, has moved the July 28 race card to July 31 with a scheduled post time of 6 p.m. CT.

Study shows proposed tax increases on British betting would lead to a £330 million revenue hit to the industry in the first five years, and 2,752 jobs at risk in the first year alone.

Formidable Man has never lost at Del Mar, site of this year's Breeders' Cup, and he added the Eddie Read Stakes in the second weekend of the track's summer meeting.

Boom Boom Bell, a 2-year-old filly, became the first winner for the late grade 1-winning Combatant when she won the first race at Hawthorne Race Course July 27.

The last time Fierceness and Sierra Leone raced against each other it was for all the marbles.

La Mehana may be considered a grizzled veteran at age 6, but her 8 3/4-length domination of the $250,000 Glens Falls Stakes (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course July 27 indicated she may just be reaching her best.