Blood-Horse

Amo Racing smashed the Arqana August Yearling Sale record when Kia Joorabchian bid $3.5 million to secure the Night Of Thunder filly out of Ecurie des Monceaux's blue hen Prudenzia midway through the third session Aug. 18 in Deauville.

The Jockey Club announced Aug. 18 the election of 10 new members: Craig Bernick, Peter M. Brant, Boyd T. Browning Jr., Case Clay, Dennis Drazin, Marette Farrell, Jonathan Green, Andrew Moore, Dean Reeves, and Bill Strauss.

On a record-setting day at Emerald Downs Aug. 17, celebrity chef Brian Malarkey accomplished a lifelong dream of winning the $125,000 Longacres Mile Stakes with Arrowthegreat.

Cantcatchthiscat became the first black-type stakes winner for Cat Burglar when the 2-year-old gelding won the Lads Stakes at Emerald Downs Aug. 17.

Canterbury Park received a three-year accreditation from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority Board of Directors following an onsite HISA Accreditation Team visit.

Jockey Joe Talamo, who recently began a new chapter in his life by joining FanDuel TV as a full-time host and racing analyst, reflects on his years as a jockey and his new role.

Swamp King held off a rival at the wire to earn his maiden victory and give his sire, Silver State, his first winner Aug. 17 at Ellis Park.

Thomas Bachman has been breeding Thoroughbreds since the 1980s and, although he's down to just a handful of broodmares, he is not short on quality. His most recent stakes success came when Sammy Davis won the Graduation Stakes Aug. 8 at Del Mar.

Dr. Paull Khan has signed a new contract as Chief Executive Officer of the European and Mediterranean Horseracing Federation. Khan has served as the EMHF's Secretary-General since 2012 and the new arrangement applies until the end of 2027.  

The Washington Racing Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony prior to Saturday's races, with trainer Mark Glatt, owner Paskey Dedomenico, breeders Ron and Nina Hagen, and 2008 Longacres Mile winner Wasserman its 2025 honorees.

Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Sovereignty opens as a heavy favorite for the Aug. 23 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. 

Coolmore and Amo Racing were among the major players who engaged in a seven-figure arm wrestle during day two of the Arqana August Yearling Sale Aug. 17. The heavyweight tussle concluded at a gasp-inducing €2.3 million for a colt by Wootton Bassett.

Dean Reeves named the colt after a long-dormant nickname for the Georgia Tech University football team, a suggestion that came from a corner of the racing world that one might not expect to be up on obscure United States football monikers.

Diego Velazquez earned his first group 1 success in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) in a photo-finish Aug. 16, holding off a challenge from the fast-finishing Notable Speech. The colt was recently purchased by Sangster Bloodstock.

British racing is set to stage a one-day strike on Wednesday, Sept. 10 in a remarkable protest against plans to raise taxes on horseracing betting. It is thought to be the first voluntary blackout in British racing's modern history.

Owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Michael McCarthy, the team involved with Journalism, Velocity became a grade 1 winner in the Del Mar Oaks (G1T), just her second stakes attempt.

The King's Plate Stakes is Canada's race, the country's equivalent of the Kentucky Derby (G1) for 3-year-olds foaled in the country, but Aug. 16, the historic $725,444 contest belonged to two American owners: Bill and Al Ulwelling.

Trade might not have fully erupted during the opening session of the Arqana August Yearling Sale, with a clearance rate in the low 70s telling its own story, but there was still a string of hot prices at the head of the market on Saturday evening. 

D. J. Stable's Nitrogen showed that her off-the-turf victory in the June 7 Wonder Again Stakes (G3) was no fluke as she defeated the former leaders of the 3-year-old filly division Aug. 16 in the Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

Chiefswood Stables' Simcoe took the lead and never looked back en route to a dominating 5 3/4-length victory in the $122,874 Bold Venture Stakes (G3) Aug. 16 at Woodbine.