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Impressive Falls City (G3) winner Xigera will head for a planned break over the winter before targeting the La Troienne (G1) next spring.

Xigera resumed her serious training at Churchill Downs on Thursday and posted a swift half-mile workout in :47.80.

Grade 1 winner Played Hard has been retired from racing, and she will enter the broodmare band of owner Richard Rigney, BloodHorse reports.

By knocking over Clairiere six weeks ago in the Shuvee Stakes (G2), in her first start as a four-year-old, Nest became the new leader among older female dirt runners. Clairiere is back for another shot at last year’s three-year-old champ in Friday’s $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1). Joining the fray is the formidable Secret Oath, […]

The $1.25 million Travers will see the winners of each of the three legs of the Triple Crown and last year's Champion 2-Year-Old Colt

Nest will look to keep her perfect Saratoga Race Course record intact in Friday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Personal Ensign.

Keeneland’s 80th annual September Yearling Sale, a globally essential marketplace for Thoroughbred racing prospects, has cataloged 4,194 horses for a total of 12 sessions to be held Monday, Sept. 11

Keeneland’s 80th annual September Yearling Sale, a globally essential marketplace for Thoroughbred racing prospects, has cataloged 4,194 horses for a total of 12 sessions to be held Monday, Sept. 11 through Saturday, Sept. 23.

Reigning champion 3-year-old filly Nest came back from a nearly nine-month layoff with aplomb to score in Sunday's $200,000 Shuvee (G2) for trainer Todd Pletcher, turning back the challenge of multiple Grade 1 winner Clairiere to capture the 1 1/8-mile test for older fillies and mares at Saratoga.