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Three Diamonds Farm’s Cross Border posted a mild upset in the $200,000 Cape Henlopen Stakes on Saturday at Delaware Park.

Vibrant trade during Tuesday’s second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale fueled increases in gross and average price, which were boosted by the sale of 15 horses for $1 million or more.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 146 entries for its August Digital Sale, which may now be viewed at digital.fasigtipton.com. Bidding is now open and closes Tuesday, Aug. 29, at 2 p.m. ET.

For those weary of the steady diet of 5½- and 8½-furlong turf races offered at Saratoga Race Course, Wednesday’s 13-furlong John’s Call Stakes offers a pleasant change of pace. The race honors the memory of the nine-year-old who created something of a sensation in 2000 when he won a pair of G1s (the Sword Dancer […]

BREEDING INSIGHTS: Grade 1 glory for Manister House 2023-08-18

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher could have as many as three chances to secure his fifth win in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama

Tail-male descendants of Northern Dancer once again accounted for the most U.S. graded-stakes wins with 184 (41.3% of the total), a figure exceeded only by the line’s 188 graded wins in 2013. Perennial runner-up Mr. Prospector recorded his highest total ever with 162 graded wins (36.4%). Because so many Northern Dancer-line graded-stakes winners are bred […]

It took less than 40 hips into the abbreviated first session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale for Honest Mischief to make a statement among the New York stallion ranks.

The Estate of Robert J. Amendola’s Evvie Jets looks to continue her recent stakes success in Wednesday’s 20th running of the $135,000 De La Rose at Saratoga Race Course, a one mile inner turf test for older fillies and mares that have not won a graded stakes in 2023. Trained by Mertkan Kantarmaci, Evvie Jets found […]

By all appearances, the 15-time winner from 23 starts for purse earnings in excess of $1.8 million is actually improving with age.