Aidan O'Brien has narrowed down his Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1) team to three as he bids to land a hammer blow in the trainers' title race in Britain's final group 1 of the year Oct. 24 at Doncaster Racecourse.
For the last three years, Thoroughbred racing's Horse of the Year has arisen from somewhere other than the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). That figures to change this year.
Keeneland has added three supplements to its Championship Sale: a 2.5% fractional interest in Upstart; a lifetime breeding right in Life Is Good; and a 50% ownership interest in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) pre-entrant Citrus Springs.
Two of Australia's most exciting 3-year-olds will attempt to upstage an accomplished older generation when Warwoven and Blind Raise take their places in the Oct. 24 Cox Plate (G1).
AJ Will Win Stables' millionaire Barbadian Runner, a $5,000 yearling, seeks a second consecutive victory in the headline event of the 41st edition of the Jim McKay Maryland Million, the Maryland Million Classic.
Trainer Horacio De Paz will send out five contenders led by Twenty Six Black on the Oct. 24 Empire Showcase Day card at Belmont Park, which offers 10 stakes exclusively for horses foaled in New York State valued at a combined $2.1 million in purses.
Keeneland has added three supplements to its Championship Sale: a 2.5% fractional interest in Upstart; a lifetime breeding right in Life Is Good; and a 50% ownership interest in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) pre-entrant Citrus Springs.
James "Jim" Everatt, who with his wife, Janeane, established Shannondoe Farm and became a prominent Thoroughbred breeder in Canada, died Oct. 15 at his residence in St. Thomas, Ontario. He was 86.
Thanks to new money from the provincial government, the Ontario Thoroughbred Improvement Program's Mare Purchase Program has a total budget of $750,000 for the 2026-27 fall/winter season, up from $400,000 in 2025-26.