A Shanghai Bobby colt was purchased by Summer Grove Farm for $115,000 to top the Aug. 26 Texas Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale at Lone Star Park near Grand Prairie.

The slew of top performances on the blockbuster Aug. 24 card at Saratoga Race Course produced some shifts among the top 10 in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll.

The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium board has approved a model rule for the regulation of bisphosphonates as well as further regulations and stacking prohibitions for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and intra-articular injections. 

Force the Pass is the first stallion to stand for T.K. Kuegler’s Wasabi Ventures Stallions, which acquired the grade 1-winning son of Speightstown from owner/breeder Richard Santulli. The stallion will stand at Anchor & Hope Farm in Maryland.

American Pharoah and Constitution currently lead the freshman sire standing as the top two, respectively, and both young stallions have a chance to sire their third stakes winner this year in the Aug. 28 With Anticipation Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga.

One of the calendar’s most highly anticipated auctions, the Aug. 27-28 Goffs UK Premier Sale catalog contains 469 lots, which drew a sizable crowd to South Yorkshire Monday to begin inspections.

A guide to television and radio horse racing coverage, compiled by America’s Best Racing, through Labor Day weekend and the end of the meets at Saratoga Race Course and Del Mar:

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged an initial 410 entries for its Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale, to be held Monday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, Oct. 1. The sale will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.