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Just seven horses have captured the Haskell and Travers, and Dornoch vies to add his name to the list that includes Holding Pattern, Wajima, Wise Times, Forty Niner, Holy Bull, Coronado's Quest, and, most recently, Point Given.

Last year's Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Nobals and his equally fast and talented stablemate One Timer will both run in Kentucky Downs' $2 million Ainsworth Turf Sprint (G2T) Sept. 7, trainer Larry Rivelli said.

Over a muddy Saratoga track, the bay filly trained by Chad Brown surged in the stretch and held off Claire's Charm by a neck.

After opening this season with a Listed success, the homebred mare of Edouard de Rothschild has now rattled off three group 1 victories on the bounce and will swap Newmarket for Longchamp this time round, and head straight to the Arc.

Trade on day two had been rather more subdued than is often anticipated at the Arqana August Sale, but it took just 90 minutes for three seven-figure lots to pass through the Deauville ring Aug. 18.  

Whistlejacket won the Prix Morny to earn an automatic spot in the Nov. 1 $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar through the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In.

Rich Strike, winner of the 2022 Kentucky Derby (G1), faces an uncertain future following an injury setback that will keep him on the shelf for two months. The success of his treatment plan will determine if he ever races again.

Iscreamuscream answered the cheers from her hundreds of owners in the Del Mar grandstand loud and clear when she streaked to her fourth straight score in the $301,500 Del Mar Oaks (G1T) Aug. 17.

Flanagan Racing's Grayosh, a work in progress for trainer Chad Brown, put all the pieces together just in time for an upset victory in the $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes (G2T) Aug. 17 at Saratoga Race Course.

Solis/Litt Bloodstock struck an online bid of €730,000 for Haras de Castillon's Sea The Stars filly out of La Vie, purchased on behalf of LNJ Foxwoods. The filly consigned as Lot 187 was bred in partnership by Al Shaqab Racing and Sunderland Holding.

Argentine champion Subsanador scored his first victory in the United States and could be headed to the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) after posting a 1 1/2-length victory Aug. 17 in the $248,500 Philip H. Iselin Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park.

Power Squeeze, a chestnut 3-year-old daughter of Union Rags, rallied wide from seventh place to catch Candied on the wire and win the Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course in a photo finish. 

Woodbine, pounded by heavy rain that first resulted in its scheduled turf races being moved to its Tapeta main track, canceled racing for its King's Plate card after the fifth race Aug. 17.

Many of the leading contenders for the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) recorded their final workouts Aug. 17 at Saratoga Race Course, including Thorpedo Anna, Dornoch, Fierceness, and Sierra Leone.

Blue Rose Cen will attempt to turn the tables on defending race winner Mqse de Sevigne in a short field assembled for the Aug. 18 Prix Jean Romanet (G1).

Royal Ascot hero Shareholder and Whistlejacket will clash again in the Aug. 18 Prix Morny (G1) at Deauville. The race is a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series event for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T).

Australian superstar Black Caviar has died at the age of 18. The mare, winner of all 25 of her career starts, was humanely euthanized at an equine hospital in New South Wales Aug. 17 shortly after giving foal to a Snitzel colt.

Trainer J. Eric Kruljac says he will run Cal-bred The Chosen Vron in the Aug. 24, $250,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes (G2), a seven-furlong affair that may also attract this year's Saudi Cup (G1) winner, Senor Buscador.

Despite coming from a relatively small pool of Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, recent winners from the King's Plate (run as the Queen's Plate from 1952-2022) continue to distinguish themselves in the graded stakes ranks.

John Stewart makes his first major impact on the European sales circuit, striking an online bid of €1.4 million (US$1,542,730, €1=US$1.1020) to secure the top lot on Day 1 of the Arqana August Yearling Sale in Deauville.