Stakes Recap: Raven Run & Sands Point

In scoring at first asking by 5 1/4 lengths at Keeneland in October 2023, Booth ran like a horse with the makings to become a graded stakes winner. That potential was ultimately realized March 15 when the speedy Mitole   colt led from start to finish in the $250,000 Whitmore Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park. His 2…

For all of the wet weather and gloomy skies at Pimlico Race Course this week, the winds of change have been swirling in Maryland for much longer than a week or even a year. Alan Foreman, a longtime Maryland racing leader and an architect of the Maryland redevelopment plan, remembers talking about substantive plans to…

Racing Australia will go back to the drawing board this week after a bid to make four more NSW races group 1s—and upgrade more than 40 other events around the country without making downgrades—was rejected by the Asian Racing Federation’s Asian Pattern Committee. Australia’s black-type impasse continues as the move for a vast suite of…

Godolphin’s globetrotting 7-year-old Rebel’s Romance  easily won the $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes (G1T)  Sept. 27 at Aqueduct Racetrack in the reigning champion turf male’s return to American racing. Jockey Frankie Dettori made an early move on the winner, advancing from third up to the lead after a half-mile in :49.26 in the field of five. The son of…

The catalog for Arqana’s v.2 Yearling Sale is now online and features 171 yearlings by leading sires such as Dark Angel , Kodiac , Mehmas , Siyouni , and Starspangledbanner . The sale takes place Aug. 20 following the August Sale which begins Aug. 16 and concludes Aug. 18. Among its notable graduates are classic winners Coeursamba, Teppal, and Olmedo,…

Through seven months, 2025 was shaping up into a year of what could have been for Chunk of Gold . Five races—four graded stakes, four seconds (three by 2 1/4 lengths or less), plus a ninth in the Kentucky Derby (G1).  But all that woulda-coulda-shoulda talk now looks like it referred to a colt who was still…