Under the new partnership, Guardian Security will provide 24-hour equine surveillance in the days leading up to, during, and following the upcoming World Championships, set to be held at Keeneland in Lexington Nov. 6-7.

The Thoroughbred Safety Coalition is working with state racing commissions to add new medication rules for horses about to deliver high-speed workouts, just one of several reforms the organization of leading tracks and industry groups is advocating. 

Mighty Heart will continue his quest to join an elite group of horses to sweep all three legs of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown Oct. 24 in the CA$400,000 Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine.

St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) winner and TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) third-place finisher Without Parole has been retired from racing and will stand next year at Newsells Park Stud in England, where he was born and raised.

Trainer James Fanshawe is set to end a 30-year wait for a runner at the Breeders’ Cup with Audarya poised to tackle the Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) at Keeneland Nov. 7.

Golden Gate Fields’ fall meet runs from Oct. 22-Dec. 13.

California has never hosted the Claiming Crown but the  $100,000 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes (G3T) Oct. 24 at Santa Anita Park kind of feels like one such race. Five of the race’s seven competitors formerly raced in the claiming ranks.

Despite a reduction in live race dates and significant safety protocols for live on-track patrons, horsemen and employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 live race meet at Delaware Park concluded on positive notes on Saturday, October 17th.

Millionaire Lookin At Lee, a two-time stakes winner best known for running second behind Always Dreaming in the 2017 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), has been retired, co-owner Michael Levinson tweeted.

On Oct. 21 Al Shaqab’s sustained investment at the Arqana October Yearling sale passed the €1.7 million mark for the week across 19 horses, with the star of their acquisitions on Day 3 a son of Lope de Vega (Lot 465) knocked down for US$112,314.

With the 2 1/2 inches of rain Keeneland received on Monday and Tuesday and an active weather pattern forecasted over the next 10 days, Keeneland will card only one grass race for each of the final three race days of the Fall Meet.

Carmen McShane, Cindy Hutter, and Roy Smith have been named finalists for the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards’ Leadership Award (Racing). A winner will be announced Nov. 5 during a virtual ceremony scheduled for noon ET. 

A California Horse Racing Board committee has approved a proposed regulatory change intended to curb the growing use of a medication prescribed to treat hypothyroidism, which is rare in racehorses.

Trainer Ger Lyons has revealed that dual group 1 winner Siskin will head to stud in Japan after one final potential start in his care at the Breeders’ Cup.

Wicked Strong is moving to Dr. William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa., for 2021, the farm announced in a release. After standing this year at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington for $6,000, his fee next year will be $3,500.

Headed by Speightstown and leading second-crop sire Constitution, WinStar Farm has set 2021 stud fees for its 22-stallion roster, most with fees reduced from this year.

Tiznow, the only two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner and sire of 79 black-type winners, has been retired from stud duty, it was announced Oct. 21 by WinStar Farm.

Selling returns to Doncaster Oct. 22 as a bumper edition of the Goffs UK Autumn Sale gets underway at 10 a.m. local time.

Headed by Speightstown and leading second-crop sire Constitution, WinStar Farm has set 2021 stud fees for its 22-stallion roster, most with fees reduced from this year.

Gainesway announced their 2021 stud fees Oct. 21 for their stallion roster which is topped by three-time champion sire Tapit, who has solidified his status as one of the most influential and breed-shaping stallions of the last half century.