Blood-Horse

It's been an outstanding year for the 3-year-old filly Fionn and it may not be over.

Returning from a six-month layoff, 3-year-old filly Shred the Gnar took her elders gate-to-wire in the $300,000 Chilukki Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs.

A 12-strong Godolphin draft including group 2 winner Corniche and a three-in-one package featuring the half-sister to multiple group 1 winner Hartnell headline the Inglis Australia Digital November (Late) Online Sale, which has opened for bidding.

Hit The Bid Racing Stable's Fast Market exited the summer racing season as a maiden, having gone winless in her first eight starts. But she could end the fall as a graded stakes winner.

After four straight wins at Prairie Meadows, Happy Strike will face his toughest challenge yet for owner and trainer Dewaine Loy.

The 3-year-old son of Uncle Mo and grade 2 winner will enter stud at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds for $5,000.

Landing a daily double on the last two races of the Breeders' Cup World Championships and earning $607,800 with his win, Dave Smyth, 50, a financial planner from Lexington, won a record-setting edition of the 2025 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge. 

A year-and-a-half after being told he only had about five months to live because of cancer, Bryan Bushey made the journey to Churchill Downs to support Point Dume in the $200,000 Claiming Crown Jewel Nov. 15.

Brian Spearman, who has served as chairman of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners since 2015, has decided to step away from his day-to-day role with the company at the end of this year. 

The ninth installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held Nov. 12 and featured a veterinarian from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital discussing foal conformation and possible corrections.

John Stewart's Resolute Racing silks were carried to victory for the first time in Australia when expensive filly Ernaux produced a commanding display to break through Nov. 14 at Canterbury Racecourse.

The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association hosted a regional breeders organization workshop at Churchill Downs Nov. 12 to identify best practices and areas of growth for the industry.

Japan's tribute race to the late Queen Elizabeth II fairly drips with history and a full field of fillies and mares looks to write a new chapter in the Nov. 16 renewal.

Stud fees are unchanged for Ocala Stud's roster of seven stallions for the upcoming breeding season, the farm announced Nov. 14.

All race day test samples (post-race and TCO2) collected from participants in the 2025 Breeders' Cup Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar have been cleared by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit

The ninth installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held Nov. 12 and featured a veterinarian from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital discussing foal conformation and possible corrections.

Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., is saddened to report that 1997 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner, Touch Gold, has been euthanized at the age of 31 due to the infirmities of old age.

The second and final session of NZB’s Ready To Run Sale propelled the auction to another record-breaking conclusion, with the aggregate soaring past NZ$41 million and both the average (NZ$156,255) and median (NZ$100,000) reaching all-time highs.

Jockey Paco Lopez, suspended six months by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority in September for what it said were riding violations of a conditional reinstatement, is named to ride in six races at Fair Grounds Nov. 20.

Nobals, winner of the 2023 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T), returns to the all-weather surface at Woodbine seeking to repeat as winner of the Kennedy Road Stakes (G2) on Nov. 15.