Australian Oaks nominations – 2025

There have been many memorable renewals of the Goffs UK Doncaster Breeze Up Sale, but there has never been anything quite like this. The Mehmas  colt from Katie Walsh’s Greenhills Farm had been the subject of plenty of positive whispers after a turbocharged workout April 23. However, even the most optimistic prediction would have struggled…

The Fasig-Tipton April Digital Sale closed April 9 with 64 horses sold for $1,822,500. The sale averaged $28,476, with a median of $15,000 and clearance rate of 74%. The catalog offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, 2-year-olds in training, broodmares (including mares with foals at foot), and short yearlings. Crimson Frost  (Hip 12) sold…

Eve Johnson Houghton talked the talk pre-race of the Sept. 14 National Stakes (G1), and Zavateri  walked the walk by battling like a gladiator under Charlie Bishop to deliver his trainer the second group 1 winner of her career and down the best juvenile Aidan O’Brien could throw at her in Gstaad . Johnson Houghton hailed…

Quietside  soared to her first graded stakes victory when she annexed the $500,000 Honeybee Stakes (G3) Feb. 23 at Oaklawn Park, defeating Five G  and even-money favorite Muhimma  earning 50 points on the road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1). The Shortleaf Stable homebred daughter of Malibu Moon had finished on the board in four consecutive stakes…

Sunday’s closing day program at Churchill Downs with mandatory payouts in all wagers led by a $214,090 jackpot carryover in the 20-cent Derby City 6.  Sunday’s 10-race card, the last of 14 programs during the September Meet, gets underway at 12:45 p.m. (all times Eastern) with the Derby City 6 beginning in Race 5 at…

The Jockey Club announced July 10 the speakers for its 73rd Annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, which will be held July 31 at the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at 10 a.m. ET, following a networking breakfast that begins at 9 a.m. It will also be livestreamed on The…