Brett Setzer News Today

Riding down Loudon Avenue, white structures are being built. They are temporary warming shelters for the unhoused this winter.

The 40th annual Mountain Glory festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second Saturday in October. This annual event spotlights regional makers and the joys

See who leases all 67 luxury suites at Kentucky’s football stadium and how much they pay for the privilege.

A total of 96 horses are entered for Memorial Day Monday’s special 10-race all New York-bred card at Belmont Park to celebrate the best of New York racing for the annual Big Apple Showcase Day.

Gainesway Farm’s Spendarella was crowned 2022 New York-bred Horse of the Year – in addition to champion 3-year-old filly and champion female turf horse – at the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.’s annual awards ceremony, sponsored by the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, at Saratoga National Golf Course Monday evening May 8.

There were some anxious moments in the stretch run, but the formful Les Bon Temps was able to let the good times roll to a third career stakes triumph in Sunday’s $200,000 Park Avenue division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a 6 1/2-furlong test for eligible New York-sired sophomore fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Deuce Greathouse, Cindy Hutson, and Brett Setzer’s Les Bon Temps doubled up on stakes scores in Saturday’s $500,000 Fifth Avenue division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible New York-sired juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Sleeping Giant Stables, America’s Pastime Stables and KimDon Racing’s graded stakes-placed Vacation Dance will vie for his second consecutive stakes score for trainer John Kimmel in Saturday’s $500,000 NYSSS Great White Way, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible New York-sired juveniles, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

 Irad Ortiz Jr. cemented his status as meet-leading rider with three wins, including two stakes scores, on Empire Showcase Day, a special 10-race card for New York-breds Sunday on closing day of the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

"Empire Showcase Day reflects the quality, popularity and continued growth of the New York-bred program,” said Najja Thompson