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Fasig-Tipton's October Digital Sale Brings $6.7 Million for 287 Horses
Fasig-Tipton wrapped its October Digital Sale on Wednesday afternoon with a gross of $6,729,000. The sale was run as a pair of online sessio…
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Trainer Chad Brown Returns to the Flower Bowl Stakes on Thursday
The Grade 2 Flower Bowl Stakes runs Thursday, carrying a purse of $500,000. The race has been good to Chad Brown before, and the trainer's b…
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Five Classic Winners, Ranked by the People Who Watch Them Closest
America's Best Racing has put out a short list naming the five Breeders' Cup Classic winners it considers the finest ever to take the race. …
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Cigar's Greatness Was Made in the Barn, Not Just Born
A new appreciation of Cigar places the credit for his championship years where the backside has always known it belongs, with the trainer wh…
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Belmont Park Owns the Week's Fastest Maidens, and a Repole Uncle Mo Filly Is Among Them
Every one of the week's five quickest first-time winners came out of Belmont Park, a sweep for the New York track in the latest tally of mai…
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Maranello, the Heider Family's Two-Million-Dollar Not This Time Filly, Unveils at Keeneland Wednesday
The afternoon's fifth race at Keeneland on Wednesday carries a name the sales world already knows. Maranello, a two-year-old daughter of Not…
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The People Behind a Rising Star Named Hullabaloo Ray Ray Get Their Due
Hullabaloo Ray Ray, a horse already carrying the TDN Rising Star designation, is the subject of a new profile of the people who brought the …
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Racing's Week of Oct. 14-18 Has a Viewing Guide
For anyone planning the week around the racetrack rather than the other way around, a rundown is now out of where to watch and where to list…
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Three Names From a Decade Worth a Second Look: Chris Evert, Susan's Girl and Wajima
America's Best Racing has turned its attention back to the 1970s, a decade it argues deserves to stand beside the sport's finest eras. The p…
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Aftercare Takes the Winner's Circle at Laurel on Maryland Million Day
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will be at Laurel Park on October 24, when the track runs the Jim McKay Maryland Million Day for the 41s…
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The Raven Run Puts the Fast Fillies Up Front
The Raven Run Stakes is back on the 2026 calendar, and its brief is as narrow as a sprint itself. The race is written for three-year-old fil…
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Jock Whitney Went to See a Filly Saddled
In the summer of 1949, Jock Whitney took such an interest in the filly regarded as the one to beat in the Spinaway Stakes that he went to wa…
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The Juvenile Ladder Toward Louisville Gets Its Mid-October Update
America's Best Racing published a fresh edition of its rankings of two-year-olds with a case for the 2027 Kentucky Derby on Oct. 12. The lis…
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A Dornoch Colt Leads the Way at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale
A colt by Dornoch brought the top price Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, the fourteenth running of the autumn auction in…
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A Half-Million Flower Bowl Runs Thursday, With Chad Brown's Name Already on the Trophy
The Flower Bowl Stakes goes to the post on Thursday, a Grade 2 turf prize carrying a purse of $500,000. The race has become familiar ground …
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A Breeders' Cup Seat for Everyone Who Isn't on Track
Some 45,000 racegoers will be on the grounds for the Breeders' Cup this year, and the rest of us will be watching from somewhere else. Ameri…
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Off the Track and Into the Ribbons: The 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover Crowns Its Champions
The past week belonged to horses whose racing days are behind them, as the 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover named its winners. Each of these Thoro…
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Quality Road Keeps the Top Line at Lane's End While Flightline's Number Waits
Lane's End has set out its stallion prices for the 2027 breeding season, and the name at the head of the list, for now, is Quality Road. His…
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The Gunthers Open Glennwood's Broodmare Band to the Ring
John Gunther and his daughter Tanya will consign mares that have already produced Grade I winners to the Fasig-Tipton November sale, a decis…
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Falling Creek Puts Silver Reunion's Line Back in the Winner's Circle for the Jones Silks
Falling Creek, a two-year-old filly by Upstart, has won in the silks of Brereton Jones, and the result reads as handsomely on the page as it…
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Saratoga's Fall Mixed Sale Crowns a Dornoch Colt
A colt by Dornoch brought the highest bid of the day Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, the auction's fourteenth edition a…
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Away From the Ring: The Jockey Club Names Its 2026 T.I.P. Non-Competition Honorees
The Jockey Club has released its 2026 list of recipients for the T.I.P. Non-Competition Awards. As the name says, these honors are given for…
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Saratoga Gets Its Turn as the Market Moves to Breeding Prospects
Fasig-Tipton is holding its Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, and it comes to Saratoga Springs while the sales calendar is still riding a very stron…
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Not This Time's Daughter Takes the Franklin at Keeneland Again
Time to Dazzle won the Grade II Franklin Stakes at Keeneland on Sunday, and it is now her race two years running. She made her winning run t…
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One Start Behind Him, Olympiad's Son Outclasses a Seasoned Keeneland Field
Merlin Monroan, a son of Olympiad, came into a Keeneland allowance with less racing behind him than anyone else in the gate, and he left it …
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A Champion's Brisk Morning on the Saratoga Strip
Sovereignty, the reigning Horse of the Year, was back at work in Saratoga Springs, New York, and put in a strong gallop on a brisk morning o…
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Keeneland Debut Puts Klaravich's Flameaway Filly Global Unrest on the Watch List
Global Unrest, a 2-year-old filly by Flameaway, made her first career start Saturday afternoon at Keeneland and came away with a "TDN Rising…
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Arcadia's Morning Sends a Contingent East to the Championships
At Santa Anita on Saturday morning, a group of horses being aimed at the Breeders' Cup went to the track for their timed drills, with the Wo…
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From an Ocala Breeze to the Keeneland Turf: Lael Stables' $550,000 Corniche Filly Makes Her Debut
Earlier this year in Ocala, the filly Tannhauser, by Corniche, breezed in :9.4. It was the kind of work that gets a filly noticed during Flo…
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A Medaglia d'Oro Daughter Leads All the Way in Keeneland's Queen Elizabeth II
Tam Tam took the lead early in the Grade I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland and kept it to the wire. She broke and went straigh…
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Third Coast Gives Uncle Mo a Graded Stakes Win in the Hill Prince
Third Coast, a son of Uncle Mo, has won the Grade III Hill Prince Stakes. For much of the race he sat just outside another runner and waited…
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Tam Tam Leads Every Step in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup
Tam Tam won the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, Keeneland's fall prize, by going to the lead and never giving it up. Leading from the star…
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Breeders' Cup Contenders Get Their Counterparts From Other Sports
America's Best Racing has published a feature that pairs this year's Breeders' Cup contenders with matching figures from other sports. The i…
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A.P. Indy and the Making of a Champion
Every year, American racing names one Horse of the Year, and in 1992 that honor went to A.P. Indy. The wire piece looks back at that champio…
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The Queen Elizabeth II Reaches Its 43rd Edition With Faithful Departed in the Field
The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes is being run for the 43rd time, and the name drawing attention on the entry sheet is Faithful Departed. The fi…
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Two of the DeVaux Barn's Best Breeze Over Keeneland's Lexington Oval
Keeneland's morning watchers were given something worth the early rise this week, as two of the finest horses in trainer DeVaux's care went …
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Backyard Heaven, the Ramseys' Oaks-Day Winner, Has a Summer Chapter at Saratoga
The Ramsey red and white has a story to tell at Saratoga Springs this summer, and it belongs to Backyard Heaven. The horse reached the winne…
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Sixty-Six Stakes for Gulfstream's Winter, With Two Pegasus Grade Is and the Florida Derby Leading
Gulfstream Park has set out the shape of its Championship Meet, and the count comes to sixty-six added-money races. Three Grade I events sta…
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A Flightline Colt Overcomes His Own Keenness to Break His Maiden at Keeneland
Cavalli, a two-year-old son of Flightline, made his first start at Keeneland and came away a winner, though he made it harder on himself tha…
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State Regulators Clear the Way for Richer Claiming Purses at New York Tracks
New York's horsemen who make their living in the claiming ranks got good news from the state capital on Friday. The State Gaming Commission,…
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Chad Brown Brings His Record to Thursday's Flower Bowl
The Flower Bowl Stakes goes to the post on Thursday, a Grade 2 carrying a purse of half a million dollars. Chad Brown, whose barn has alread…
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Bricks and Mortar's Breeders' Cup Finish Still Reads Like a Crowning
America's Best Racing has looked back on one of the closest Breeders' Cup finishes in memory, the afternoon that lifted Bricks and Mortar in…
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Meridian International Elevates Emeric Guetin to Partner
The bloodstock agency Meridian International has made Emeric Guetin a partner, four years after he first joined the firm. The promotion rewa…
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Luster Comes Back to Keeneland Where Her Year Began
The filly Luster opened her 2026 campaign with a win on the Keeneland turf, and on Saturday she returns to that same Lexington course for th…
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Two Turf Voices Pull Up a Chair on The Good Life Podcast
Elliott Walden, who stepped away from a career as a chief executive and racing manager, is among the guests featured on The Good Life Podcas…
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A $1.5 Million Son of Into Mischief Opens Belmont's Saturday Card
The first race at Belmont on Saturday carries the most expensive pedigree of the afternoon. Art Museum, a two-year-old colt by Into Mischief…
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On a Belmont Morning, Napoleon Solo Covers Six Furlongs in 1:11
Napoleon Solo, the Liam's Map runner who carries the Espoir USA silks, was timed in 1:11 for six furlongs on the main course at Belmont Park…
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Elliott Walden Takes the Microphone
The man who ran WinStar Farm as chief executive and racing manager has found a new outlet for his voice. Elliott Walden fronts "The Good Lif…
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A Champion of Europe Takes His Tack to Arcadia
Jamie Spencer, who rode his way to champion jockey titles in both Britain and Ireland, is coming to California. His first rides on this side…
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Two Fillies Out of the Gallant Bloom Head This Week's Speed Table
The week's ranking of the fastest fillies belongs, at the top, to the Grade II Gallant Bloom Stakes. The race had been pushed back a week, a…
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Wesley Ward's Outfielder Runs Down a Keeneland Field From Well Back
The son of Speightstown who races for AMO Racing and Two Eight Racing had plenty of ground to make up with two furlongs left Thursday at Kee…
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Repole Moves From the Owners' Box to the Shareholder Roll
Mike Repole has added a new kind of holding to his stable. The owner disclosed on Thursday afternoon, in his own post on X, that he now hold…
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A New Name on the Saratoga Shed Row Brings More Than a Tenth of the Book
Campion & Campion have come to Saratoga for the first time as consignors, and they have not come quietly. Their first draft accounts for mor…
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Brown Returns to the Flower Bowl With a Half-Million on the Line
The Flower Bowl Stakes runs Thursday, carrying Grade 2 status and a purse of half a million dollars. Trainer Chad Brown has a runner in the …
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A Good Magic Filly Wins First Time Out on Belmont's Main Track
Mioruilt, a 2-year-old filly by Good Magic, won the first start of her career on the Belmont dirt that horsemen call Big Sandy. She didn't n…
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Eight for Flightline: A Godolphin Filly Adds to the First-Crop Tally at Keeneland
Flightline now has eight winners from his first crop to race. The latest is Jump Seat, a filly who races for Godolphin and broke her maiden …
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Noon on Oct. 21: The 2026 Breeders' Cup Fields Come Into View on FanDuel TV
The first real look at who will run in this year's Breeders' Cup comes at 12:00 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, Oct. 21, when the pre-entries go …
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Thirty-Four Graded Races in One Weekend Have Reshuffled the Two-Year-Old Colts
Racing packed thirty-four graded stakes into a single weekend, and the young colts felt it most. Equibase keeps the standings that measure a…
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Saffie Joseph Jr. Goes to $140,000 for a Pappacap Colt in Ocala
A son of Pappacap brought the top price on Wednesday, the closing session of the October yearling sale at Ocala Breeders' Sales. Trainer Saf…
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Curlin Back at the Head of Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa's Stallion Barn for 2027
Curlin will cover mares again in 2027. Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa has put him first on its stallion list for that year, after he stood only par…
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