Fresh off a Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs that featured three horses with international credentials, top-level stakes action shifts May 9 to Percy Warner, where the $250,000 Iroquois Stakes (NSA-1) also lured foreign runners.
This week's Porter on Pedigrees looks at how Kentucky Oaks victress Always a Runner's bloodlines go back to the earliest United States-born mare, known as Janus Mare No. 1.
In Beyond the Bidding, BloodHorse sales editor Olivia Newman takes a look at notable trends, accomplishments, and personalities around the North American sales scene.
A Shinzo filly took center stage at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale May 5, making AU$600,000 to the bid of SP Bloodstock principal Stefan Pardi. At the conclusion of Day 1, the sale had grossed AU$10,599,000, at an average of $73,604.
Churchill Downs will host the Season 19 finale of Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race during the first Twilight Thursday of the spring meet May 7.