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Be Your Best has breezed back four times over the Belmont dirt training track since her second-place effort in the Del Mar Oaks

Mandella will be honored by the Club at its 92nd Testimonial Dinner, which will be held at Keeneland on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

Blue Rose Cen joined three racing legends in winning the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) at Chantilly on Sunday adding it to the Prix Marcel Boussac and the Prix dEssai Des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas).

Article by Julian Muscat: Freddy Head’s son landed Poule d’Essai des Pouliches with star filly Blue Rose Cen for an owner who has transformed his approach to training – and now he’s got major hopes in both French Derby and Oaks, as he tells Julian Muscat

Behind Normandy Farm’s limestone rock fences along Paris Pike in Lexington, horses were sustained by luxuriant green fields and paddocks long before it was cleaved from famed Elmendorf Farm 70 years ago.

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Kirsten Rausing received a standing ovation at the Cartier Racing Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 9, as she was presented with the Cartier/The Daily Telegraph Award of Merit to honor her lifelong involvement in the racing industry.

French trainer and former champion jockey Freddy Head, the first person to win Breeders' Cup races as both a jockey and trainer, is to retire from racing at the end of the year.

French racing pays homage to Queen, ex-chief recalls her British humour

PARIS: The late Queen Elizabeth II's French and knowledge of racing was impeccable whilst she was blessed with "a typical British sense of humour", the former head of French racing Louis Romanet told AFP on Sunday.