Wachtel Stable, Gary Barber, R. A. Hill Stable, and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Channel Maker is back at Saratoga Race Course to defend his title in the $250,000 Bowling Green Stakes (G2T) July 27.

For La Force to secure what has proven an elusive grade 1 win in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes July 28 at Del Mar, she’ll have to defeat a familiar foe in Paradise Woods and other talented runners.

From all appearances, Hudson River Farms’ Winston C richly deserved his 6-to-1 morning-line odds for Thursday’s $150,000 A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase Stakes (NSA-G1) at Saratoga Race Course. 

Oklahoma native John Ray James, who raced and stood grade 2 winner Dramedy, died July 17. He was 75.

From falling into a sinkhole to racecourse success in the space of 12 days—that is the remarkable story of 6-year-old Mr Changue in Canada.

Some two months after finishing heads apart in the Triple Bend Stakes (G2), that race’s winner, Air Strike, and runner-up, Cistron, will meet again in the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) July 27 at Del Mar.

For Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Mitole, it’s all about doing what he does best in his last few races before next season beginning the new phase of his life as a stallion.

Keeneland has announced it will be the title sponsor of the Bluegrass International Cup, a polo match and dinner benefiting the Fayette Alliance Foundation and the UK Markey Cancer Foundation on Friday, Sept. 6, at historic Mt. Brilliant Farm.

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has partnered with Old Smoke Clothing Company to create off-track Thoroughbred-themed T-shirts. 

The iconic Del Mar paddock was transformed into a country-western themed bash on the evening of Sunday, July 21 to host the California Retirement Management Account (CARMA) annual summer fundraiser ‘Hoedown for Horses’.

The 2020 Dubai World Cup Carnival program has been announced and will take place at Meydan Racecourse over 10 weeks, including nine consecutive Thursday evenings, Jan. 2-Feb. 27, before culminating with the Super Saturday card March 7.

Kentucky Downs is moving the starting time for its first race to 12:15 p.m. Central Time, up from a 1:25 p.m. post time in recent years.

This week is a recap of the 1969 Travers Stakes at Saratoga won by Arts and Letters. Written by Kent Hollingsworth, the recap ran in the Aug. 23, 1969 magazine.