Join hosts Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins for the 18th episode of BloodHorse Monday presented by FanDuel Racing, your weekly dose of Thoroughbred racing analysis and insights! In this action-packed installment: Junior Alvarado joins the show to discuss his Kentucky Derby (G1) win aboard Sovereignty ahead of the Belmont Stakes (G1) and shares his thoughts on…
Extreme Choice‘s booming popularity has shone through again after his half brother to the group 2-winning Prost equaled the record price for the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale June 2. On a day when Extreme Choice had three of the top four lots—two bred to Northern Hemisphere time due to demand for the sub-fertile…
Exciting prospect and Royal Ascot entry Miss Yechance will be sold at the Tattersalls Online June Pop-Up Sale June 12. Trained in Newmarket by Jack Morland, the 2-year-old daughter of Cotai Glory made a winning debut over five furlongs at Redcar by a length and a half. She holds entries for the Queen Mary Stakes (G2)…
Considered one of the top threats to spoil the bid of a champion in her last three grade 1 appearances, Raging Sea will now find the target painted on her back by six rivals June 6 in the $500,000 Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. That designation comes thanks to the success she had…
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announces the opening of its fifth annual Calendar Photo Contest. Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is seeking photos of Thoroughbreds to feature in the 2026 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Calendar. Submissions will be accepted starting June 2, 2025. “We are so excited to launch our 5th annual Calendar Photo Contest, which gives us the opportunity…
Across Union Avenue from Saratoga Race Course, itself a piece of racing history dating to 1863, sits a brick building, a mixture of modern and classic lines, its exterior dotted with odes to the greatness inside. A walk through its hallowed halls yields a journey through centuries of a sport, as everything from the legendary…
The North American Thoroughbred breeding season got off to a slower than usual start this year, with commercial breeders delaying their mating decisions for months with the hope of gathering more information to bolster their stallion selections or negotiating a lower stud fee. BloodHorse MarketWatch reported last summer that the Thoroughbred foal crop is predominantly…
If you spot Pin Up Betty in a race June 1, 2026, it’s probably worth placing a bet. The chances are probably slim, given that it will be a Monday and she’s a graded stakes-caliber horse, but the date has been fruitful for the daughter of Constitution . Pin Up Betty, b, 4/f Constitution — I’m…
Grade 1 winner Mindframe will stand at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., upon retirement, the farm announced June 1st. The 4-year-old colt by Constitution has earned $1,292,160 to date for trainer Todd Pletcher and owners Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables. “Mindframe is the kind of rare talent that has the ability to be a…
Baley Hare, an experienced racing official and third-generation horseman, has been named racing secretary at Ellis Park Racing & Gaming. He succeeds Dan Bork, who will transition to the same role at Colonial Downs, a Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI”) property in Virginia. Hare has spent more than a decade in various racing office roles across…
