Charlotte Weber’s homebred World Approval, the reigning champion turf male, will be given the rest of 2018 off with designs on a bringing the Northern Afleet gelding back for his 7-year-old season.

Filly took home the Prix Six Perfections (G3) at Deauville

Stepping into stakes company for the first time, Bella Vincenza stepped away from six rivals to score a 1 1/2-length victory in the July 28 $75,000 Added Elegance at Gulfstream Park and become the first black-type winner for her sire, Biondetti.

In the 2018 edition of the Bing Crosby Stakes, without any excuses for his opposition, Ransom the Moon blew past champion sprinter Roy H to win the $300,000 dirt sprint.

It was double the action in the Saratoga Race Course winner’s circle July 28, as Glorious Empire and Channel Maker were both awarded victor’s honors following a dead heat in the $250,000 Bowling Green Stakes (G2T). 

The endless snaps of camera shutters as Summer Wind Equine’s homebred Chasing Yesterday entered the Del Mar winner’s circle provided a not-so-subtle hint that her debut victory July 28 was more than just an impressive maiden special weight score.

In front of him, Ontario-bred Flameaway was running straight and true. Behind him, grade 1 winner Sporting Chance was blowing the turn. Somewhere in the middle, Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Tenfold got his act together and won the Jim Dandy (G2).

Trainer Mark Casse said July 28 that multiple graded stakes winner Wonder Gadot will start in the Aug. 25 Travers Stakes (G1), giving the filly a chance to become the first female runner since Lady Rotha in 1915 to capture the Spa’s signature test.

The endless shutter snaps as Summer Wind Equine’s homebred Chasing Yesterday entered the Del Mar winner’s circle provided a not-so-subtle hint that her debut victory July 28 was more than just an impressive maiden special weight score.

Pure class may have carried Promises Fulfilled across the line in his past three races, but a turn back in distance July 28 put the Shackleford colt’s true talents on display. 

Imperial Hint earned his first top-level win in visually impressive fashion July 28, capturing the $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Race Course under a hand ride from jockey Javier Castellano.

Brenda Kay Allen Jones was a respected horsewoman, animal lover, and beloved mother. She passed away July 26 after a brief battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her family in her final hours. 

Jockey Curtis Kimes reached the 2,000-win milestone July 27 with a frontrunning victory aboard I. P. C. Stables’ Stormin Away in the third race at Fair Meadows in Tulsa, Okla.

There was a neck between Poet’s Word (IRE) and Crystal Ocean (GB) but a gulf between them and the rest as they underlined Sir Michael Stoute’s pre-eminence in the race that most defines his career with a record sixth victory for the trainer.

Jockey Kyle Frey is expected to miss two or three weeks of racing after a pre-race spill July 27 at Del Mar.

Jay Em Ess Stable’s Take the One O One has been nothing if not versatile in his career and he earned his second straight stakes win July 27 in the $150,000 Real Good Deal at Del Mar.

Horacio DePaz, the multiple stakes-winning trainer for Sagamore Farm since 2015, will also take on outside clients as he transitions into running a public stable.

Chasing Yesterday, the half sister to the 12th Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, has been followed by many, and her debut, which is now set in a 5 1/2-furlong test for 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar July 28, is highly anticipated.

Julie Coy Martinez is Director of Sales, Ashley Franz now Director of Bloodstock Services.