GI Jaipur Stakes winner Reef Runner (The Big Beast) will get some space between races and will most likely target the GII Troy Stakes at Saratoga Aug. 9 as his next start. The son of The Big Beast began his 2026 with an electric victory in the G2 1351 Turf Sprint at King Abdulaziz Racecourse [...]

'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Chasten (Into Mischief) won her third race of the 2026 season when she ran off to a powerful 6 1/4-length score in Delaware's Obeah Stakes on Saturday. Chasten, who earned TDN Rising stardom when winning her sole start at two in a seven-furlong test at Churchill Downs, was two-for-two [...]

La Rascasse (f, 3, Authentic–Hallawallah, by Candy Ride {Arg}), a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' debut winner by a head going seven furlongs at Keeneland Apr. 11, backed up that performance with a smart victory in Saturday's $175,000 Monomoy Girl S. at Churchill Downs. The 9-5 second-choice was always traveling like the winner beneath [...]

Smidgeon (f, 2, Jack Christopher), overlooked at 7-1 in her five-furlong unveiling at Churchill Downs Saturday, shot out to the front beneath Keith Asmussen and kicked for home as the one to catch. She let it out a notch in the stretch and kept on finding down the lane to graduate by 1 3/4 lengths. [...]

Reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief), G1 Dubai World Cup hero Magnitude (Not This Time), GI Pegasus World Cup victor White Abarrio (Race Day), and GI Pennsylvania Stakes winner Baeza (McKinzie) headline 17 nominations to what is shaping up to be a blockbuster summer event Saturday, June 27 in the GI Stephen Foster [...]

G1 Prix Morny heroine Venetian Sun (Starman) is one of 25 horses remaining in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on Friday, June 19. She was a G3 Albany Stakes winner at two at Ascot. The Karl Burke trainee failed to stay in the G1 1000 Guineas, but made up for that effort with [...]

A total of 10 fillies, including Aidan O'Brien's English and Irish Guineas winners True Love (No Nay Never) and Precise (Starspangledbanner), have been entered in the G1 Coronation Stakes on Friday, June 19. The duo face G3 Fred Darling Stakes second Touleen (Lope De Vega) from the Owen Burrows yard. The filly finished sixth behind [...]

New information regarding the death of kidnapped stallion Shergar, has been revealed by Princess Zahra Aga Khan, the daughter of the colt's late co-owner, Aga Khan IV. A winner of the 1981 G1 Derby by a record 10 lengths and a brilliant racehorse, the son of Great Nephew is best known for his kidnapping from [...]

Jockey Ryan Moore and noted owner/breeder Kirsten Rausing have both been named in the King's Birthday Honours List. Coolmore/Ballydoyle's retained rider, Moore has been awarded an MBE for his services to racing and British sport. He was aboard Queen Elizabeth II's Estimate (Monsun) when the filly landed the G1 Gold Cup in 2013. Currently he [...]

Freshman sire Olympiad claimed his first winner as a stallion when Techwerkian went gate-to-wire in the third race at Belterra Park. Despite floating late, and with blinkers on in her third try, the 8-5 favorite comfortably got the job done for trainer Rey Hernandez and owners Rey Hernandez, Ricardo Labra, and Rhonda Cornum. She was [...]

Harper's Corner became the first winner for her freshman stallion (by Street Sense) with an eye-catching debut victory Friday afternoon at Laurel Park. Crunched into 17-5 from an 8-1 morning line off a sound-enough worktab at Fair Hill, the $30,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling and $70,000 OBS April breezer dipped at the break, but quickly recovered [...]

Trainer Jamie Osborne has received a three-month suspension of his licence, suspended for six months, after taking a photograph of a woman's 'clothed bottom' at a racecourse last year. The 58-year-old was caught taking the photograph in the paddock before a race at an evening meeting last summer, and was reported to stewards on the [...]