Closing weekend of the Keeneland fall meet kicks off with the $400,000 Valley View Stakes (G2T) Oct. 24, which drew an overflow field of some of the top 3-year-old turf fillies in the country. The one-mile Valley View features a rematch of this year’s summer’s Lake Placid Stakes (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course, with the winner…
Presenting data Oct. 16 during a meeting of the California Horse Racing Board in Sacramento, Calif., CHRB equine medical director Dr. Jeff Blea said regulatory protections for spotlighted aspects of horse welfare are working well in the state. Blea pointed to statistics from fiscal year 2024-25 in California about horses scratched in the post parade…
The third leg of the Japanese Fillies Triple Crown, the Shuka Sho (G1) Oct. 19 at Kyoto Racecourse, finds the winners of the first two legs competing at a compromise distance. Embroidery won the April 13 Oka Sho (Japanese One Thousand Guineas-G1) at 1,600 meters (about 1 mile). Kamunyak, who did not contest the Guineas,…
After 92 earlier qualifying races, the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series reaches its conclusion with the Oct. 18 Champion Stakes (G1) at Ascot Racecourse. With European stars Ombudsman , Delacroix , and Calandagan topping the 11-horse field, it provides a fitting ending to the international series that began all the way back in December when Intense for Me captured…
The Fasig-Tipton Digital Fall Flash Sale closed Oct. 16 after six days of bidding that began Oct. 10. Iron Orchard (Hip 1) sold for $2.5 million to KatieRich Farms. The 2-year-old daughter of Authentic entered the sale off a victory in the Frizette Stakes (G1) Oct. 4 to remain undefeated in three career starts. She also took her debut…
Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa announced Oct. 16 the stud fees for its 2026 stallion roster, led by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin , one of the most preeminent sires at stud today. The only stallion to have sired three Breeders’ Cup winners on the same day and the only stallion to sire four Eclipse champions in…
Expatriate second-crop sire Spun to Run sired his first black-type stakes winner and his first graded stakes winner when his 3-year-old daughter Hela captured the Oct. 11 Fernando Coloma Reyes (G2) at Hipodromo Chile. Bred by Haras Porta Pia and owned by Stud Carvatero, Hela captured her first stakes after three previous placed finishes in…
Barely more than two weeks out from the 2025 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar, the fields are coming into focus for the 14 championship races. For different reasons, two of the most interesting prospective fields can be found in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). The Juvenile seems likely to…
FanDuel TV will present live coverage of the announcement of the pre-entered fields for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at noon ET Oct. 25. The pre-entered fields also will be available on the Breeders’ Cup website, official mobile app, and Facebook, X, and YouTube channels. The 42nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be Oct. 31-Nov. 1…
Nyquist , the sire of 10 career grade 1 winners, will once again top the Darley Stallions at Jonabell Farm roster after a 2025 season that included grade 1 victories by Cavalieri , Velocity , and Argos . The 12-year-old son of Uncle Mo stood for $175,000 this year but is poised for a price adjustment with four potential…
