The fourth installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held June 10 and featured panelists from multiple organizations discussing how they promote Thoroughbred ownership. The conference is hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and presented by Bessemer Trust, Keeneland, and Stoll Keenon Ogden. The panel was sponsored by…
The Japan Racing Association has moved the Takarazuka Kinen (G1) up a few weeks on the calendar to avoid the worst of increasingly hot summers but competition on the racecourse for the June 15 renewal should provide enough heat of its own. The race is one of two which encourage Japanese fans to vote for…
James McDonald has been snapped up by Wathnan Racing to ride at Royal Ascot, with the jockey named as the world’s best in the Longines rankings to feature on the first three days at the meeting. McDonald, who memorably guided Nature Strip to victory in the 2022 King’s Stand Stakes (G1), will be on hand…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York Racing Association announced June 13 that the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will return to historic Saratoga Race Course in June 2026 for a third year to allow for the on-time and uninterrupted construction of a new Belmont Park. The announcement makes the widely speculated plan official….
As Ali Rice spoke about both the effort one of her consignment’s top fillies delivered on the track and the sentiment the chestnut youngster carried with her, the Florida heat became no match for the emotions that bubbled up. “I’m getting goosebumps,” said Rice, who operates RiceHorse Stable with her husband Brandon. “It’s 100 degrees…
While Fierceness continues to make his presence felt in the older male division, his younger half sibling Nonna’s Love started making some waves of her own, graduating with a scintillating score over the Aqueduct Racetrack turf June 12. Like Fierceness, the 2023 champion juvenile male, as well as her grade 3-winning half brother Mentee , Nonna’s…
The versatile John Cortez—Santa Anita Park‘s lead outrider, pari-mutuel clerk, and small-stable trainer—got his first training win in more than 3 1/2 years when Carver scored in the fifth race June 8, a $50,000 starter allowance at one mile on turf at Santa Anita. Carver is one of three horses currently trained by Cortez, a…
Master 2-year-old conditioner Michael Freedman is confident Aerodrome is ready to put his best foot forward on firmer ground as he seeks to shore up the first-season stallions’ title for his sire Ole Kirk in the June 14 J.J. Atkins Stakes (G1). Bred by Rick Jamieson’s Gilgai Farm and bought by Singleton-based industry player Sean Dyson…
The star of her division last fall, 2-year-old champion filly Immersive is finally set to make her 3-year-old debut June 14 at Churchill Downs in the $175,000 Monomoy Girl Overnight Stakes. “Physically she’s grown, filled out a bit,” trainer Brad Cox said. “We love what we’ve seen from her in her works leading up. It’s…
Trainer Bjorn Baker has second-hand star Robusto primed to cap a huge season for the stable and syndicators Darby Racing in a bold first-up bid to land the 1,400-meter (about seven-furlong) Stradbroke Handicap (G1) at Eagle Farm June 14. And the 5-year-old will also have the backing of a sort of Murphy’s Law of stallions, as…
