Danny Tudhope on Epic Poet

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)…

Everett Dobson, the new chair of The Jockey Club, will deliver the keynote address at the annual National HBPA Conference on March 4. The telecommunications entrepreneur and philanthropist from Oklahoma City is a horse owner and breeder and partner in the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Dobson is the first Jockey Club chair to…

Greg Wolf & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Empire Classic & the Empire Distaff at Belmont at the Big A. Source link

Trainer Doug O’Neill picked up two wins at Santa Anita Park June 15 and with them achieved the latest milestone in his career—3,000 wins.  The victory by Hero Or Zero  in the eighth race at Santa Anita, a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds, secured the mark for the Southern California-based trainer. Earlier in Sunday’s card,…

The November Horses of Racing Age Sale, held Nov. 12 at Keeneland in Central Kentucky, had a strong Middle Eastern influence to it. Representatives for Middle Eastern buyers purchased many of the highest-priced horses in the sale, topped by KAS Stable’s acquisition of Bishops Bay  (Hip 4014) for $1.3 million and RRR Racing’s purchase of World Record …

The New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Commission have placed a group of horses located in Barn 28 on the main track side of Saratoga Race Course under quarantine due to a suspected case of strangles. Strangles is a contagious bacterial infection that generally affects a horse’s respiratory system and causes…