Fireworks lit up the sales ring during the Aug. 8 session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale, with big prices from progeny of several different sires. 

Owner/breeder Bob Lothenbach bought five yearlings for $1.415 million. Three of his purchases are colts by More Than Ready, the sire of his multiple stakes winner Sonic Boom.

Ron Blake and Hanzly Albina’s consignment sold two fillies for $1.075 million at the Saratoga yearling sale. A third filly, by Pioneerof the Nile, failed to meet its reserve after being bid to $385,000.

When trainer D. Wayne Lukas signed the ticket for $650,000 during the Aug. 7 opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale for a son of Union Rags, it marked another big pinhooking score for Renee Dailey and Olin Gentry.

The New York Racing Association today announced the 2017 inductee to the Saratoga Walk of Fame: three-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey Ramon Dominguez. 

In a move it hopes will help strengthen purse levels, Keeneland plans to increase takeout beginning with the upcoming 2017 fall meeting. 

Okie Ride, the winner of four Oklahoma Classics Sprints and multiple other stakes events at Remington Park, died Aug. 9 just seconds after completing a half-mile breeze.

If one of Divisidero’s best days comes against a field of 12 challengers in the Aug. 12 Arlington Million Stakes (G1T), the late-running millionaire could make good on his connections’ long-held belief in his ability.

Buffum. Bridgetown get first winners on debut at Delaware Park and Fingers Lakes Aug. 9. Buff’s in Love and Lover’s Leap also were the first starters for the sires.

Take Charge Indy, the 2012 Florida Derby winner, can boast his first black-type winner after the Kelly Breen-trained Take Charge Paula survived a speed duel and drew off to win the White Clay Creek Stakes at Delaware Park Aug. 9.

Since he broke his maiden in August of 2016, Amerman Racing Stables’ Oscar Performance has shown that when he gets firm ground to run on, he will fire.

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association announced Aug. 9 the re-election of Dr. J. David Richardson as chairman of its board of trustees.  

The Thoroughbred racing community stands to get a read on just how good Dona Bruja (ARG) is as she heads a field of ten entered for the $600,000 Beverly D. Stakes (G1T) at Arlington International Racecourse Aug. 12.

Trainer Todd Pletcher entered two talented fillies, stakes winner Pure Silver and graded stakes-placed Stainless, in the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course.

The early juvenile stakes in California can bring entrants with wide-ranging backgrounds, but the field for the $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2) Aug. 12 is a unique hodgepodge.

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