For Jack Sisterson, in just his third year as a trainer, entering three Calumet Farm starters Aug. 29 in the $300,000 Forego Stakes Presented by America’s Best Racing (G1) at Saratoga Race Course is an experience he calls “humbling.”

The finalists will be recognized at a virtual awards program Oct. 6.

Demonstrating the depth of his turf stable, trainer Mike Maker is keeping star Zulu Alpha in his barn this weekend, and he is still running three contenders in the $500,000 Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 29.

Ted Voute’s online shopping spree accounted for the top three lots at the Aug. 26 session of the Tattersalls August Sale, with the 220,000 guineas Walkinthesand claiming top-lot honors at the three-day auction.

Nine-day meet will start Oct. 3, pending approval.

Heavenly Cause and What a Summer selected for Hall.

Amid speculation that tests conducted of horsemen at Churchill Downs had generated a spike in positive COVID-19 cases there, track officials announced Aug. 26 that 47 new cases were discovered there in testing from Aug. 19-24.

British racing took its first tentative steps on its recovery mission Aug. 26 when it was announced racegoers would be back on track in two weeks—a key priority in the industry’s response to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Santa Anita Park is in the process of adding a new turf course chute, which will enable the track to offer fans and horsemen a wide array of turf sprints that heretofore had not been available. 

Santa Anita Park is in the process of adding a new turf course chute, which will enable the track to offer fans and horsemen a wide array of turf sprints that heretofore had not been available. 

Making his first appearance on the Southern California circuit in more than nine months, Giant Expectations will return to the Del Mar starting gate Aug. 29 and attempt to reclaim his title in the $150,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2).

Although many of the top prospects for the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby (G1) have yet to train at Churchill Downs, two leading ladies for the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks (G1) are already on track. Speech and Swiss Skydiver galloped there Aug. 26.

Scorsese, who is out of a War Front mare, won in his third start Aug. 26 at Belterra Park.

The bidding war to assume ownership of the New York Mets has turned into a race pitting owners of some of horse racing’s most well-known stars against each other.