With the 2019 MATCH Series set for its championship leg Sept. 28 at Monmouth Park, Laki is poised to become the only division winner from 2018 to win it again.

$48,000 was the top price paid for a yearling during the annual Alberta Thoroughbred Sale on Friday, September 13th at Westerner Park in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

Multiple grade 1 winner Flat Out, a leading third-crop sire of 2019, has been sold to continue his stud career at Dr. Warren Center’s Mighty Acres near Pryor, Okla., in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Topped by an $8.2 million daughter of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale ended its 13-session run Sept. 22 with gross sales of $360,004,700, fifth-highest in September sale history.

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. was back to work early Sunday morning at Gulfstream Park after Math Wizard provided him with his first grade 1 stakes victory with his 31-1 upset score in the $1,015,000 Pennsylvania Derby (G1) Sept. 21 at Parx Racing.

Lady TNT earned her first win of the year and the first stakes win of her career Sept. 21, upsetting the field of the $300,000 Charles Town Oaks (G3) while running wire-to-wire.

Representatives from key bloodstock and racing industry bodies have formed the Bloodstock Industry Forum in order to “maintain and improve confidence in the buying and selling of bloodstock in Britain.”

Blue Devil Racing Stable’s homebred Come Dancing lived up to her odds-on favoritism Sept. 22 and scored another graded stakes victory with ease in the $300,750 Gallant Bloom Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park.

Blue Devil Racing Stable’s homebred Come Dancing lived up to her odds-on favoritism Sept. 22 and scored another graded stakes victory with ease in the $300,750 Gallant Bloom Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park.

Raging Whiskey became the first black-type winner for Bourbon Courage when he wired the field to win the Sept. 21 Capote Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course. 

Harold Lerner, AWC Stables, and Nehoc Stables’ Pat On the Back earned the first, hard-fought graded stakes win of his career Sept. 21, fending off a late challenge in deep stretch in the $300,000 Kelso Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park.