Runaway Ghost, winner of the 2018 Sunland Derby (G3) and an earner of $783,509, has been retired and will stand the 2021 breeding season at Double LL Farms in Bosque, N.M.

OwnerView announced Oct. 21 that the seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference has been rescheduled until 2021. The event had been rescheduled to be held at Keeneland in Lexington as a virtual conference during Breeders’ Cup week.

Kentucky Downs’ 2021 race meet will again feature six days while racing both the Sunday and Monday of Labor Day weekend for the first time.

Good news has been hard to come by in Ireland in recent days but Gordon Elliott has single-handedly lifted the mood by taking the wraps off Tiger Roll early and declaring the dual Grand National winner for a 14-furlong maiden at Navan Oct. 22.

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission chairman Jonathan Rabinowitz reiterated the regulatory body’s support for historical horse racing, a form of gaming that the Kentucky Supreme Court recently ruled that one brand of which is not pari-mutuel.

Haras de Bourgeauville scored a notable success on day two of the remodeled Arqana October Yearling Sale as a son of Adlerflug topped trade when secured at €85,000 by Federico Barberini.

Having already won 17 stakes races in 2020, including four grade 1s with different horses, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners will look to add to its list of stakes tallies at the Breeders’ Cup Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland.

Following the Oct. 19 announcement by the Irish government that the country will move to its highest lockdown tier for six weeks starting from midnight on Wednesday, Goffs have been forced to rescheduled three sales.

Gregory Smothers, Marcelo Arenas, and Patrick “Shawn” Autry have been named finalists for the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards’ Dedication to Racing Award. A winner will be announced Nov. 5 during a virtual ceremony scheduled for 12:00 p.m. ET. 

Citing trying times for breeders, Darley America announced reduced 2021 stud fees for most of its stallions, topped by Medaglia d’Oro, whose fee dropped from $200,000 to $150,000.

Johnny Murtagh will join Dermot Weld and Michael Halford on the Irish training roster for the Aga Khan and will be sent his first batch of yearlings from the leading owner this year. 

Laoban, who stands at Sequel Stallions New York and has a grade 1 winner and grade 1-placed runner is his first crop, is relocating to WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., for the 2021 breeding season.

The New York Thoroughbred Breeders announced Oct. 20 that executive director Jeffrey Cannizzo will be leaving the organization Jan. 1 to pursue a newly created position with the New York Racing Association as senior director of government affairs.  

Citing trying times for breeders, Darley America announced reduced 2021 stud fees for most of its stallions, topped by Medaglia d’Oro, whose fee dropped from $200,000 to $150,000.

Art Collector, winner of the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) at Keeneland this summer, is likely to return to the Lexington oval for the Nov. 7 Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), trainer Tommy Drury Jr. said.

Mill Ridge Farm announces the 2021 stud fee for world record turf miler Oscar Performance at $15,000 (live foal, stands and nurses).  

Mill Ridge Farm announces the 2021 stud fee for world record turf miler Oscar Performance at $15,000 (live foal, stands and nurses).  

In advance of the upcoming Kentucky October Yearlings Sale and The November Sale in Lexington, KY, Fasig-Tipton has announced COVID-19 protocols that will be in place in accordance with Kentucky regulations.

Faversham, a multiple winner and full brother to two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome, has been retired from racing to stand at Daehling Ranch in Northern California. His 2021 fee will be $2,000.

This week’s racing schedule for radio and television, compiled by America’s Best Racing.