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Woodward Stakes (G2) winner Zandon and Awesome Again Stakes (G1) winner Slow Down Andy surged into the top 10 in the latest Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings, while Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1) winner Arcangelo maintains the overall lead.

When the 4-year-old runs this distance on dirt, she wins. Equally impressive is that she's won all five of them by no less than 2 1/4 lengths.  

Del Mar will present its 10th fall racing session—dubbed the Bing Crosby Season to honor the track's iconic founder—starting on Friday, Nov. 10 and highlighted by a stakes schedule that features 15 major events over the course of its 13-day run.

Trainer Kenny McPeek about V V's Dream: "I'm looking forward to a rematch. I'm pretty confident in our filly's talent level."

Stable Recovery received a $300,000 grant from the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission Oct. 2, as announced by Attorney General Daniel Cameron.

Speaking during a Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund Advisory Committee meeting, officials from Turfway Park indicated the Northern Kentucky track plans to expand its race dates to four days a week throughout the winter and early spring.

New York State Gaming Commission accepted an appeals court ruling in June that a three-ban for trainer Linda Rice was "shockingly unfair." The court, however, agreed Rice "blatantly broke" the rules.

Bango, the co-winningest horse in documented Churchill Downs history with 11 wins beneath the Twin Spires, pursues his first victory at Keeneland against a contentious group of sprinters in the Oct. 6 Phoenix Stakes (G2).

Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel will kick off its 2023-24 season the evening of Oct. 6. Live racing will begin at 5:15 p.m. CT each week until the season comes to a close Feb. 24.

In partnership with the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association of New Jersey, Wanamaker's will be holding the first-ever New Jersey-Bred Sale Nov. 16.

A stunning gray colt from the debut crop of Ghaiyyath was the headline act at the opening session of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Oct. 3, having brought a winning bid of 1,050,000 guineas from Godolphin.

The NTRA and National Horseplayers Championship are excited to announce the Global Symposium NHC Challenge, a free-to-play handicapping contest exclusive for early registrants of the 2023 Global Symposium on Racing.

Vin Cox will take a global approach to the operation of Yulong, the world's fastest-growing Thoroughbred empire, after announcing he was joining Zhang Yuesheng's racing and breeding powerhouse. 

The Oct. 18 CTHS Ontario Mixed Sale Interactive Catalog can now be accessed at cthsont.com. This year's catalog has 78 entries consisting of 41 broodmares, 15 weanlings, 16 yearlings, four horses of racing age, and two stallion seasons. 

Race Lens includes four key features—advanced search and custom handicapping angles, the ability to back-test handicapping theories, customized past performances, and True Odds proprietary predictive modeling.

The 5 1/2-furlong Woodford Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland Oct. 7 has attracted a tough field of 12, including Cinderella story Live In The Dream from England.

Keeneland has cataloged 3,569 horses for its 80th November Breeding Stock Sale, which will be held Nov. 8-16. A horses of racing age session will be held Nov. 17.

The top 10 standings in the most recent National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll held steady after racing this past week, with Arcangelo continuing to lead over Cody's Wish.

Scratches, vet lists, trainer records, and injection policies all topics of interest following the breakdown of New York Thunder.

Hip 267, a colt by Tom’s d’Etat and half-brother to Saratoga maiden winner Lady Arwen, sold for $85,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale. Photo provided by Turning Point Bloodstock.

A colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Tom’s d’Etat and a filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Complexity highlighted the New York-bred offerings at the two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale that wrapped up Tuesday in Timonium, Maryland.

Calumet Farm purchased the Tom’s d’Etat colt, sold as Hip 267 out of the Turning Point Bloodstock consignment. Bred by Big Dom Racing Stable LLC, the colt is out of the winning To Honor and Serve mare Pursuing Justice.

Pursuing Justice, who is out of the Grade 2-winning New York-bred Seeking the Gold mare Seeking the Ante, is the dam of the 2-year-old Audible filly Lady Arwen, who broke her maiden in her second start August 24 at Saratoga Race Course. Pursuing Justice’s first foal, the New York-bred 3-year-old Nyquist gelding, sold for $105,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

The Tom’s d’Etat colt – the 10th most expensive colt in the sale – was a $30,000 RNA as a weanling at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

Chief Horse Futures LLC went to $70,000 to purchase Hip 180, the daughter of Complexity out of the unraced Malibu Moon mare Just Like the Moon.

Bred by Newtownanner Stud Farm and consigned by Blake-Albina Thoroughbred Services LLC, agent, the filly is the first foal out of the full sister to the Grade 3-placed Cue the Moon and half-sister to stakes winner Red Hot Buddha.

Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 48 of the 68 New York-breds for a total of $834,500, an average price of $17,385 and median of $8,500. Overall, Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 289 of the 368 yearlings offered for a total of $7,078,000, an average price of $24,491 and median of $12,000.

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