Applications for The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program's two annual awards, the Thoroughbred of the Year Award and the Young Rider of the Year Award, are now open.
In this month's At the Track with Sean Collins: Prepared to host the long-anticipated third round of Sovereignty vs. Journalism April 18, Oaklawn Park's investment in its facility and fan base has set the stage for one of racing's premier events.
The 2026 Oaklawn Handicap (G1) feels like a throwback race to a bygone era in sport where true horse racing heavyweights of the handicap/older male division would meet regularly in marquee stakes across the country.
As Day 2 of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale drew to a close, Machmer Hall celebrated a $1.2 million success when its colt by Cyberknife sold to John Sadler and L.E.B., agents for West Point Thoroughbreds and Mike Talla.
Although trade remained behind the giddy highs of last year, the April 15 second session of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale did at least prove more solid than the first.
Haulin Ice will make her next start on grass, pointing to the May 1 Unbridled Sidney Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs, which could be a potential turf showdown with reigning champion female sprinter Shisospicy.
Frosted, best known for a record-breaking performance in the 2016 Metropolitan Handicap (G1), was euthanized because of an acute episode of laminitis April 15 at Darley's Jonabell Farm.