Stakes Preview: N.Y.S.S. Cupecoy's Joy & Pegasus Stakes

Participants of the Maryland Horse Breeder Association’s Annual Yearling Show not only have the opportunity to take home ribbons and prize money at the show, but they are eligible for a portion of $40,000 in bonus awards from the Maryland-bred Fund. Every yearling shown, regardless of class standing, is eligible for these cash awards which…

Multiple grade 1 winner and first-crop sire Code of Honor registered his first winner posthumously when his daughter Code of Valor won her debut April 10 at Turf Paradise. Code of Honor, a former Lane’s End stallion, died in December 2022 after a bout with colic. He stood at the farm near Versailles, Ky., for one…

With tributes continuing to pour in for the late D. Wayne Lukas, Los Alamitos Race Course will present the Great Lady M Stakes (G2) July 5. The race honors the late multiple stakes-winning Lukas trainee who produced 1986 Horse of the Year Lady’s Secret , also trained by Lukas during the Southern California years of his…

Ascot Racecourse publicity reported April 29 that recent Memories Of Silver Stakes winner Laurelin  has been entered in the Coronation Stakes (G1) at the Royal Ascot meeting in June. At this point in the process, that “entry” would be comparable to a nomination in the United States. The Coronation is a one-mile race for 3-year-old…

Derma Moon (JPN) became the first winner for Shadai Stallion Station’s Mind Your Biscuits , who was a multiple grade 1 winner in the United States and Dubai, after capturing a May 25 maiden special weight at Tokyo Racecourse. Funny Hill Farm bred the bay 3-year-old colt out of the winning Screen Hero mare Derma Ararechan,…

A pair of Belmont Stakes (G1) competitors highlight the field of seven for the Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes (G2T) Oct. 4 on the inner turf at Belmont at the Big A. Hill Road , who was fifth in a star-studded Belmont field that included arguably the three best 3-year-olds in the country (Sovereignty , Journalism , and…