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Following his victory in the Juddmonte International Stakes (G1), Godolphin's Ombudsman is the highest-rated horse in the latest Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings covering racing performances in 2025 through Sept. 7.

Gulfstream Park's 2025-26 Championship Meet will offer a stakes schedule with 68 stakes, 27 graded, worth $15.2 million in purses.

Forty minutes into the fourth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, a Flightline colt bred and consigned by Dixiana Farms grabs the sale's spotlight, selling for $1.4 million to Mayberry Farm on behalf of CRK Stables.

The $500,000 Summer Stakes (G1T) is one of three races scheduled for Sept. 13 at Woodbine that are part of the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" Challenge Series.

Charlie Appleby hopes to work some familiar magic as he saddles Notable Speech for the Sept. 13 Woodbine Mile (G1T), a "Win and You're In" for the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T).

Trainer Larry Donlin won his 1,000th Thoroughbred race Sept. 10 when West Island crossed the finish line first in the eighth race at Canterbury Park.

The Jockey Club and The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will host a state breeder organization workshop to share current programs to help identify best practices and areas of growth. The workshop will be held at Churchill Downs Nov. 12.

Trainer Bob Baffert has been on the buying end of numerous high-value horses through the years at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. On Sept. 10, he was on the receiving end of one.

Only one yearling by leading sire Gun Runner brought seven figures during the Sept. 10 third session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale but a colt sold as Hip 731 grabbed the day's highest price. Spendthrift Farm made the buy.

George Messina and Michael Lee's Fionn was as game as could be in the $2 million Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T) Sept. 10, proving best in an all-out slugfest to the wire with Candy Quest for her third consecutive graded victory.

Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan signed the ticket for the chestnut colt out of grade 1-placed stakes winner Cherry Lodge, by Bernardini. Gainesway bred and sold the colt that Ryan bought for a partnership.

During Sept. 10, the third day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Jacob West signed a ticket on a colt (Hip 546) by first-crop sire Jackie's Warrior for $1.3 million for Robert and Lawana Low—the stallion's highest-priced yearling to date.

Shares in leading young stallions Ole Kirk and Southport Tycoon, both by Written Tycoon, dominated bidding in the Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, finishing as the two highest-priced lots when the sale closed Sept. 10.

The gray or roan colt (Hip 413) becomes the first seven-figure purchase early during the Sept. 10 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Gainesway consigned the colt that was purchased by Mayberry Farm, agent for C R K Stable.

The lone non-stakes winner in the six-horse $400,000 Locust Grove Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs Sept. 13, Regaled aims to build on her three consecutive stakes placings for her new connections.

More than a year after announcing its arrival, NYRA Bets still hasn't hit the starting gate in New Jersey.

Before establishing his brilliance as a sire, Not This Time was a high-class racehorse for Albaugh Family Stables. Now, Albaugh Family Stables is taking its shot with one of Not This Time's sons.

The foundation selected Chance McKeever and Mark Schrenger as scholarship recipients for the world-renowned training program.

This fall, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., will host screenings of "Backside," a compelling, observational documentary by Raul O. Paz-Pastrana that honors the primarily immigrant workforce quietly sustaining the horse racing industry.

The gray or roan colt (Hip 413) becomes the first seven-figure purchase early during the Sept. 10 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Gainesway consigned the colt that was purchased by Mayberry Farm.