Longacres Mile Heads Emerald Downs 2025 Stakes Schedule
The 90th running of the Longacres Mile Stakes headlines a 20-race stakes schedule worth $1,075,000 for Emerald Downs at the 51-day meeting from April 27-Sept. 7, 2025.
The 90th running of the Longacres Mile Stakes headlines a 20-race stakes schedule worth $1,075,000 for Emerald Downs at the 51-day meeting from April 27-Sept. 7, 2025.
A deep nine-race card, including two stakes, kicks off opening day, Nov. 22, of the 153rd season of racing at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans.
Accumulating $158,000 by betting More Than Looks in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T), Steven Wells, a bar owner from Fordville, N.D., won a record-setting edition of the Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge.
Turnover reached €18,246,500, which is up 47% year-on-year. The average price rose fully 61% to €115,485, while the median went even further, up 64%, at €82,000.
For the first time since the spring of 2021, when he began serving what was ultimately more than a three-year suspension by track operator Churchill Downs Inc., Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has a horse in competition at Churchill Downs.
Strong international fields take on some dominant local runners, including Romantic Warrior and Ka Ying Rising, in the Longines Hong International Races Dec. 8 at Sha Tin Racecourse.
The racing world is mourning the loss of Australian champion racehorse Elvstroem. The globetrotting superstar died at the age of 24 last week in France, where he had been standing at stud since 2016.
A field of talented 3-year-olds will ship to Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course Nov. 25 as they host their feature race: $300,000 Steel Valley Sprint Stakes.
Khozan, Florida's leading general sire annually since 2020, has relocated from Journeyman Stud and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Ocala Stud, the latter farm announced. He will have a $6,000 stands-and-nurses fee.
Total sales for Day 1 were NZ$18,547,000, with an average of NZ$173,336, and a median of NZ$90,000. A clearance rate of 66% represented the 107 horses sold out of 161 lots offered.
Canterbury Park racing officials submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission for a 51-day Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse season in 2025. The season would run from Saturday, May 24, through Saturday, Sept. 20.
Veteran jockey Tim Thornton recorded his 3,000th career win Nov. 14, leading the panel of racing experts to vote Thornton Jockey of the Week for Nov. 11-17.
OwnerView announced today that the 2024 New Owner of the Year is being awarded to John Stewart and Jayson Werth.
Aggregate sales were up 7% year-on-year at €8,200,500, while the average price rose by 16% and the median by 17%.
Graded stakes winner Champions Dream retires with earnings of $211,230, hitting the board in five of his 11 starts.
Hawthorne Race Course and related defendants moved a court to dismiss a veterinarian's damages claims based on federal racketeering allegations.
Florida-based owner/trainer Paul Valery has been suspended by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit until May 13, 2033, for a series of infractions involving his horses and controlled and banned medications, including steroids.
Old Forester made his mark in the breeding shed. He was a five-time leading Canadian sire by progeny earnings (2010-12, 2015, and 2017). All told, Old Forester's children have banked $35,666,085 in earnings.
Maiden Watch: Week of Nov. 12-Nov. 17
Porter on Pedigrees
There are 404 juveniles cataloged for the two-day sale in Karaka, starting on Nov. 20.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority Exercise-Associated Sudden Death Working Group announces the funding of two groundbreaking research studies.
Top Tier Thoroughbred Management will provide a variety of bloodstock and racing management services to clients, from private and auction purchases to mating and conformation analysis.
Horseshoe Indianapolis completed its 22nd season of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing Nov. 14 with record numbers. A total of 124 days were held, with six dedicated to all Quarter Horse racing.
France's Henri Pouret has been named as Chairman-elect of the European and Mediterranean Horseracing Federation.
The days of running strictly against their own age group are numbered for the 2021 crop and the Commonwealth Turf Stakes (G3T) at Churchill Downs Nov. 23 will likely be the final opportunity for it's nine runners.
Michelle Cuozzo Borisenok, named to the board of directors of the New York Race Track Chaplaincy in December, has been elected vice president of the organization, filling the vacancy left by Nancy C. Kelly, who died in February.
Stuart Janney III, chair of The Jockey Club, will step down from that position, effective August 2025. Everett Dobson, a member of the board of stewards, has been chosen as his successor.
Favoritism in most graded stakes races for 3-year-olds and up typically goes to the established runner. That makes the $300,000 Chilukki Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs an exception.
The daughter of Kingman will go under the hammer at the Arqana Vente d'Élevage Dec. 7 in Deauville, France.
Seven New York-bred 2-year-olds were sent to the post for the $45,000 Tin Cup Chalice Stakes at Finger Lakes Nov. 18 and after a thrilling stretch run, it was Cast a Coin who would tenaciously come out the victor.
The multiple grade 1 winner and 13-year-old son of Tiznow has been sold to Fazli Yurdabak of Turkey.
The freshman stallion, a son of War Front, has sired 14 winners and three black-type performers.
Four of the 10 foals by Tally-Ho's sire Cotai Glory sold for more than €60,000, with the most expensive one fetching €85,000.
The 4-year-old son of More Than Ready, campaigned by Victory Racing Partners, retires with career earnings of $1,870,715.
Total sales were €4,660,000, as opposed to €6,945,000 last year, and can be at least partly attributed to fewer of those six-figure prospects, and resulted in the average falling from €41,095 to €31,067.
The List: An Update and Review of the Top 25 General Sires List Rankings
Fenton Forever, a homebred for Desmond Wynter, won his racing debut by 3 1/2 lengths at Parx Racing Nov. 18.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority announced the addition of three new members to its Anti-Doping and Medication Control Standing Committee: David Ingordo, David Sykes, and Jonathan Coyles.
Prix Marcel Boussac (G1)-winning 2-year-old Vertical Blue; Zero Gravity, the dam of outstanding British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (G1) winner Kalpana, and two mares in foal to young sire Too Darn Hot have been added to the December Mares Sale.
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announced that $4.14 million in grants will be awarded to 83 Thoroughbred aftercare organizations that currently hold accreditation status for 2024.
All post-race test samples taken from contenders in the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar have been cleared by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit.
A classic and colorful painting by Tyler Robertson has been formally unveiled by Churchill Downs as the 2025 "Official Art of the Kentucky Derby."
Keeneland Library's popular Lecture Series, designed to celebrate recently published works about Thoroughbred racing whose authors conduct research at the facility, has scheduled four series events over the next four months.
Old Friends will host this year’s finalists for the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Nov. 20 for a book signing from 12:30-2:30 p.m. ET in the Josephine Abercrombie Center. Books will be available for purchase.
A grade 2 winner and grade 1-placed, Tyson retires as Canada's Sovereign Award champion older horse of 2023.
Tickets to the 54th Eclipse Awards are on sale. The event will be Jan. 23, 2025, at The Breakers Palm Beach. The Eclipse Awards bestow horses and individuals the honor of champion in their respective categories.
The pace was too hot to handle in the $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes (G3) at Del Mar Nov. 17, which was nothing but good news for Bullard as he closed like a freight train into the meltdown to emerge with an impressive victory.
Grade 1 winner Promises Fulfilled was represented by his first stakes winner Nov. 17 when Runnin On Promises won the $54,500 Gold Rush Futurity at Arapahoe Park.
Since launching TLore in 2003, Tracy Attfield has expanded her client list from a few trainers to dozens today. Looking toward 2025, following TLore's sale to The Jockey Club Innovations, she aims to expand the use of TLore more to owners.