Blood-Horse

Book'em Danno has been named the New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year for the second consecutive year.

A lawsuit naming jockey Luan Machado as a defendant claims his inaction caused a Kentucky racehorse to finish second instead of winning an allowance race last November at Churchill Downs.

The March 2 Hong Kong Classic Cup, middle leg of the BMW Hong Kong Derby series, is a step up in distance for progressive 4-year-olds.

The initial Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale catalog includes 94 horses by regional and Kentucky sires. The sale will be held April 2 at Lone Star Park.

The Road, presented by Gainesway and Darby Dan Farm

New Zealand's leading 3-year-old Savaglee was due to touch down in Melbourne on the afternoon of Feb. 27 ahead of his bid to become the second Kiwi raider in three years to prize the Australian Guineas (G1) crown from the grasp of the locals. 

Gulfstream Park has changed run-up distances for 1 1/16-mile and 1 1/8-mile races contested over the main track, the South Florida track announced Feb. 27.

A year after Honor Marie ran in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Kerry and Alan Ribble are back on the road to Churchill Downs as Drexel Hill targets the May 2 Kentucky Oaks (G1).

Super Saturday in Dubai has been upstaged a little bit by the success of the Saudi Cup program, but the March 1 renewal still has plenty of firepower for horses looking for a spot on Dubai World Cup night.

Bloodstock agent Clay Scherer was scouting horses for Jon Hansen's partnership Net Birdie and noticed a bay New York-bred colt by the promising young New York stallion Honest Mischief at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. has cross-entered the promising colt McAfee, a half brother to 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna, in both the March 1 Gotham Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack and the City of Brotherly Love Stakes March 4 at Parx Racing.

Canterbury Park racing officials have released a condition book for the first 10 days of the 2025 season that runs 51 days, May 24-Sept. 20, and its Thoroughbred stakes schedule.

This year’s Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) March 1 at Gulfstream Park drew a solid field headlined by recent Holy Bull Stakes (G3) winner Burnham Square and Sovereignty.

"The Bond: Two Hearts—One Spirit" is a monument at the Kentucky Horse Park scheduled for dedication in October that will celebrate the extraordinary connection between Cody Dorman and Cody's Wish, a truly special racehorse.

New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame trainer Mike Moroney died in Melbourne Feb. 27 at the age of 66.

For its 86th summer season, Del Mar is planning a $7,825,000 stakes program that provides 38 opportunities for a piece of its distinctive black type headed by the iconic track's piece de resistance—the $1 million Pacific Classic (G1) Aug. 30.

Jim Henry of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Francis Drew of Clearwater, Fla., captured the top spots in the "Race Lens Final 50" contest on Feb. 22 to earn berths into the 2025 National Horseplayers Championship.

The annual National HBPA Conference concluded its educational presentations Feb. 26 first with a session on how retired racehorses are transforming the lives of first responders and military members, as well as school children of backstretch workers.

It's hardly a shock to the system to see an unbeaten New York State-bred step into a wintertime open stakes. To see two of them in the same graded race? Welcome to the Gotham Stakes (G3).

2024 Cigar Mile Handicap (G2) winner Locked, trained by Todd Pletcher, comes into California race after running second to White Abarrio in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) in Florida.