Blood-Horse

If the question is who was the best horse in the $400,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes (G2T), a case can be made that it was Zulu Kingdom.

After 11 years playing with the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Cowboys, Mike Renfro is part of the CJ Thoroughbreds team that will send out Tom’s Magic in the $1 million King’s Plate Stakes on Aug. 16 at Woodbine.

Trainer Joe Sharp notched his 1,000th North American victory in race 6 at Ellis Park Aug. 1 when Master Game took a seven-furlong claiming tilt under Tyler Gaffalione.

From a business perspective, Mike Repole says running a champion like Fierceness at 4 without racing in the Middle East was a "dumb" decision due to the paucity of multimillion-dollar purses for older dirt horses in the United States.

On a pleasant summer day in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Pennsylvania-bred and Philadelphia sports hero Smarty Jones joins racing's immortals.

Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan took to the grass for the first time on Friday over Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma turf training track, with NYRA clockers timing him through a solo five-eighths breeze in 1:02 flat.

Having a grade 1 win at Saratoga Race Course is a huge asset when it's time to run in another grade 1 at the Spa. But all grade 1s are not the same. Especially at Saratoga.

Known for featuring high-end broodmares and broodmare prospects, Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale near Lexington is commonly referred to as "The Night of the Stars."  Already one star is scheduled to be sold there this fall: Puca.

Everett Dobson, the chair of The Jockey Club, and Justin Paul, senior vice president of operations for Churchill Downs Inc., have been appointed to serve on the management committee of Equibase Company.

Delaware Park Casino presented a $12,000 check to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation—the casino’s charity of the month for June.

Vercingetorix, who is based at Maine Chance Farms in the Western Cape, is South Africa's champion sire for the first time and has done so in emphatic fashion, also taking the crown for top juvenile and 3-year-old stallion.

Robert Clay has been selected by the board of directors of the Thoroughbred Club of America as the 2025 Honor Guest, club president W. Chapman Hopkins announced Aug. 1.

After nearly breaking Cogburn's course record in the Harvey Pack Stakes, Bring Theband Home rolls into the $300,000 Troy Stakes (G2T) on a wave of momentum for owner/breeder Live Oak Plantation and trainer Mark Casse.

Mike Pegram, a highly successful, colorful, and popular horse owner and racing executive on the national scene for more than three decades, has been named the 21st recipient of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award.

Tattersalls has increased the prize money for the 2026 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes and the 2026 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes to £200,000 (approximately $266,000) for both races, which will take place at Newmarket Racecourse.

Steve Duncker enjoys being part of a group ownership experience, explaining, “I did find over the years that having partners is so much more enjoyable than doing it alone.”

The Challenge, presented by Gainesway

In the keynote address of The Jockey Club's Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, Everett R. Dobson, newly elected chair of The Jockey Club, discussed plans for the organization and The Jockey Club's ongoing plans to grow racing. 

The catalog for the CTHS Ontario Premier Yearling Sale has been released online. The sale is set for Aug. 27 at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion.

Racing has made strides in recent years in addressing the timing of its races in an effort to prevent events from going off at the same time but as any regular viewer of FanDuel TV knows, the split screen is still needed at times.