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.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. was unseated shortly after the start of Keeneland's final race Oct. 22 and was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announces Oct. 22 that 45 Thoroughbred aftercare organizations have been awarded accreditation for 2026.

A year after skipping the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), Chad Summers has targeted the World Championships this year with his now Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Napoleon Solo.