The best of the best in Delaware racing will be showcased this weekend with the 33rd Owners Day on Saturday and Delaware Thoroughbred Certified Day on Sunday. For the weekend, 20 races with total purses of $1,163,000 and 198 combined entries have been scheduled. First race post time for both days is slated for 12:45…
Irad Ortiz Jr., the five-time Eclipse Award winner and national money leader as well as North America’s top jockey in races won every year since 2017, has moved his tack from New York to Kentucky for the fall, adding even more star power to the Churchill Downs riding colony. “My agent (Steve Rushing) and I…
Leon King Stable’s Bentornato has been entered to make his first start since finishing second in the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) in the $300,000 Louisville Thoroughbred Society Stakes Sept. 13 at Churchill Downs. The now 4-year-old Valiant Minister ridgling ran an enterprising race in last year’s Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar, where he was…
When Jennifer Leamy came to America in 2015 for an internship with the late Gerry Dilger of Dromoland Farm, she did not expect to be selling horses under her own banner just 10 years later. On Sept. 13, during the fifth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Leamy and her husband Zach Phillips will present…
Tom Ludt, who has served in multiple executive positions in the Thoroughbred racing industry, was approved as general manager of Turf Paradise during a regular meeting Sept. 11 of the Arizona Racing Commission. Ludt will handle the transition in the Phoenix track’s ownership from Jerry Simms, who bought the racetrack in 2000, to California racehorse…
Reigning Australian Horse of the Year Via Sistina has had a change to her spring campaign and will contest the Makybe Diva Stakes (G1) at Flemington Racecourse Sept. 13. The mare was meant to trial Sept. 9 ahead next week’s 7 Stakes (G1) at Randwick, but the Makybe Diva was put back on the radar…
A yearling colt by Gun Runner sold for $1.55 million to M.V. Magnier and Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm to top the Sept. 11 fourth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. His progeny continued to be in high demand through the end of Book 2, with Hip 969 becoming Gun Runner’s 12th seven-figure purchase during…
They may not be pennies from heaven, but the New York Racing Association has embarked on a new payout format that makes “cents” for bettors. The era of penny breakage on payouts at New York Thoroughbred and Standardbred racetracks began Sept. 1 at Saratoga Race Course for NYRA and is now resuming at Aqueduct Racetrack….
Buoyed by an influx of horses and near perfect weather throughout the 50-day meeting, Emerald Downs’ handle was up a healthy 49 percent in 2025. Total handle was $66,264,922 for an average per-day of $1,325,928, compared to $48,870,629 for an average of $888,557 over a 55-day meet in 2024. On-track wagering average spiked 18 percent….
Cash Asmussen, a former jockey and brother to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, went to $1.35 million on behalf of Richard Drake for Hip 1066, a son of Not This Time , during the fourth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 11. The colt is the first foal of the unraced Tapit mare Definitive,…
