Kentucky horseman Tracy Farmer, represented by agent Lincoln Collins, was among the most active buyers during the Aug. 11 opening session of the NY Bred Yearling Sale conducted by Fasig-Tipton.

OXO Equine’s Instagrand put on a nearly identical performance to his debut in the $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2) Aug. 11 at Del Mar.

Robert Bruce led home a one-two finish for Chad Brown in the Arlington Million XXXVI Stakes (G1T) Aug. 11 at Arlington International Racecourse.

Trainer Shug McGaughey had already entered the $100,000 Fasig-Tipon Lure with a special connection to the race, having conditioned the two-time Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) winner for which race is named. 

As the only yearling by American Pharoah in the NY Bred Yearling Sale, a filly sired by the Triple Crown winner lit up the bid board early during the Aug. 11 first session of the preferred yearling sale, going to Hartley/DeRenzo for $450,000.

O’Brien will saddle four of six runners in Phoenix Stakes

With the final furlong in sight, Donegal Racing’s Carrick kicked into high gear to win the $400,000 Secretariat Stakes (G1T) Aug. 11 at Arlington International Racecourse. 

Peter Brant’s Sister Charlie (IRE) kept the Chad Brown train rolling in the $600,000 Beverly D. Stakes (G1T) Aug. 11 with the trainer’s fourth straight score in the race at Arlington International Racecourse.

From a claimer way back in July of 2017 to a grade 1 Aug. 11, Barry Schwartz’s Voodoo Song is untouchable at Saratoga Race Course.

While the past few weeks trainer Jeremiah Englehart wasn’t quite sure where to next run New York-bred Sue’s Fortune, the talented juvenile filly kept making her case in the mornings.

Good Magic led a busy Aug. 11 worktab at Saratoga Race Course as he turned in his first breeze since winning the betfair.com Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) in preparation for the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1) Aug. 25 at Saratoga.

An NTRA legislative briefing held Thursday, Aug. 10 at Fasig-Tipton Sales Paddocks provided updates on a diverse range of topics impacting Thoroughbred breeding, racing, and handicapping.

The Jockey Club is projecting a 2019 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 21,500.

Augustin Stable homebred Spring Quality and Gunpowder Farms’ Divisidero will not compete in the 36th running of the Grade I Arlington Million.

Regarded as the model for state-bred incentive programs, the New York Thoroughbred Development Fund has been an unqualified success, but for for some, the program may be too much of a good thing.

A drop in class and a perfect trip did the trick for Cordiality Aug. 10 in the $150,000 Solana Beach Stakes at Del Mar.

Alert Bay has won on dirt (fast and wet), he’s won on turf, and he’s won on synthetic, but he’s yet to win the Longacres Mile Handicap (G3) in two tries at Emerald Downs.

The lawyers of former Thoroughbred trainer Rick Dutrow are slamming a written order released this week by New York regulators that explained why the state will not reconsider the 2011 penalty that booted Dutrow out of racing for at least 10 years.