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The catalogue for the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale is now available online. 

The catalog for the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale is now available and may be viewed or downloaded at lexingtonselected.com and on the Equineline Sales Catalog app. The print catalog will be mailed in late August. The sport’s premier yearling auction — which produced the winners of the last four renewals of the $1,000,000 Hambletonian — gets underway

Some 40 years ago, Clyde Hurt, a journalist serving the harness racing industry via Sports Eye, had many a controversial column on the state of the standardbred industry. One feature for which Hurt became synonymous, along with his signature bow tie, were his “impertinent questions” columns, examining many facets of the sport. Well, I, too,

“He’s been perfect. He’s very consistent. He’s just a good drive away from everybody being happy.”

Hightstown, NJ — Brett Pelling and Tim Tetrick will race morning-line favorite Confederate (Sweet Lou) in Saturday’s $668,000 Meadowlands Pace, with Pelling looking to extend his record for training wins in the Meadowlands Racetrack’s signature event for 3-year-old pacers to five and Tetrick looking to move within one victory of John Campbell’s driving record of

David McDuffee has played the long game with Bella Bellini since she first stepped foot on the racetrack. His patience paid off handsomely, but all good things must come to an end.

Beach Glass’s speed job fell through off the final turn while driver Andrew McCarthy poised Kentucky Championship winner I Did It Myway on his preferred second-over perch and pounced to a 1:48.2 victory in the second of two divisions for the $178,000 Captaintreacherous Bluegrass Stakes as part of a stakes-packed Saturday afternoon (Oct. 1) at The Red Mile.

Ake Svanstedt pupil Special Way defended her Kentucky Championship crown on the high stage to decimate her competition in the third of three divisions for the $354,000 Norman Woolworth Memorial Bluegrass Stakes for freshman trotting fillies on Friday afternoon (Sept. 30) at The Red Mile.

The opening week's stakes action at The Red Mile will conclude on Saturday (Oct. 1) with a slew of eight sophomore splits of Bluegrass action on the 13-race card.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt was one of the most decorated sprinters of all time, sweeping the 100- and 200-meter dashes in three straight Olympiads (2008, 2012, 2016) — an unprecedented feat. High drama also marked his career, such as the time a camera operator riding a Segway veered into Bolt and knocked him flat following a 2015 race.