The Minnesota Thoroughbred Association will host its annual MTA Yearling Sale on Sunday, Sept. 8 beginning at 5 p.m. (all times CDT) at Canterbury Park’s Expo Center in Shakopee, Minn.

Vegas Showgirl (NZ), dam of recently retired mare Winx (AUS), has given birth to a filly by Japan’s late champion sire Deep Impact (JPN) at Segenhoe Stud in the Hunter Valley.

Irish breeding was very much to the fore in America Sept. 2 after Yesterdayoncemore led home two other juveniles who had begun life on the other side of the Atlantic in the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes at Del Mar.

A Pollard’s Vision yearling colt out of a full sister to multiple grade 1 winner Kip Deville was sold for $30,000 to top the Carter Sales Company’s September Sale Sept. 1 at the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City.

Flavien Prat and Doug O’Neill took their places atop the jockey and trainer leader boards midway through the meeting and stayed to the end in winning titles for the 80th Del Mar summer meet that ended Sept. 2.

Buying a yearling is the easiest part of acquiring a racing prospect. Next for the young Thoroughbred lies many lessons to learn, with patience and experience going a long way toward ensuring these lessons are taught well.

Rockingham Ranch’s Nucky emereged from a turbulent opening in the $300,000 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) Sept. 2 at Del Mar unscathed, sailing home to win the seven-furlong dirt test by daylight. 

Abiding Star and Dynatail established themselves as the leaders in two divisions while Ms Locust Point and Laki maintained their divisional leads in the MATCH Series, whose four stakes helped Parx Racing show growth in total handle Sept. 2.

River Ridge Ranch’s Chacha Real Smooth became the first black-type winner for Palace when he notched a one-length victory in the Sept. 2 Iowa Cradle Stakes at Prairie Downs. 

James Graham captured the fourth and fifth races on Ellis Park’s closing card to earn his first riding title in Kentucky with 26 wins. 

If there’s a certainty in the ever-changing world of horse racing, it’s the charm and popularity of Saratoga and Sept. 2, when the 156th meet at the Spa came to an end, the roughly 38 1/3 days of racing there reached new heights.  

An overmatched field of 10 turf sprinters probably would have been just fine without an introduction Sept. 2, as Patricia Generazio homebred Pure Sensation rolled to an easy victory in the $300,000 Turf Monster Stakes (G3T) at Parx.

Facing a field of five other runners in the $250,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap (G2T) Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course, Qurbaan stole the show under a solid hand ride by Joel Rosario and earned his second consecutive title in the 1 1/16-mile test.

Jackpot Farm’s Basin proved up to the grade 1 challenge of the $350,000 Runhappy Hopeful Stakes (G1) Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course as the son of Liam’s Map drew off in the stretch for an easy win in the seven-furlong race for 2-year-olds.

For all of the photo finishes at Saratoga Race Course during a weather-shortened 39-day meet, the races for top honors among horsemen and jockeys turned out to be anti-climactic.

Races to be run 40 minutes apart to avoid All-Ireland football final

Son of Farhh was runner-up in Two Thousand Guineas (G1)