France Galop has approved a raft of new measures aimed at reversing the decline in the number of 2-year-olds in training, with the hope that its increased advantage over other European countries in prize money will attract more foreign connections. 

The dual grade 1 winner stood for three years at the late Geoff Turnbull and his wife Sandra’s Elwick Stud near Hartlepool at a steady rate of £6,000.

Mike Cline, an industry veteran for more than four decades, will join the Fasig-Tipton yearling inspection team this spring for the company’s 2021 selected yearlings sales.

Oakleigh Thorne, a New York breeder who co-founded Eaton-Thorne in the early 1980s, died at his home in Millbrook, N.Y. A member of The Jockey Club, Thorne was 88.

Keeneland’s COVID-19 protocols for the November Breeding Stock Sale will remain consistent with the September Yearling Sale with a few adjustments as a result of the Breeders’ Cup, according to the latest update from Keeneland.

After stakes schedules were turned topsy-turvy by the COVID-19 pandemic, an old nemesis returned last holiday weekend to disrupt turf racing at Belmont Park.

At long last Trinity Farm’s homebred Red Knight picked up his first graded stakes win on his 21st start Oct. 15 at Keeneland when he cut through the pack on the final turn and ran down his rivals to take the $150,000 Sycamore Stakes (G3T). 

The New York Racing Association has announced the race dates and stakes schedule for the 2020-21 winter and spring meets at Aqueduct Racetrack. 

Regardless of his fate this weekend, racing fans and the wider public can look forward to seeing more of Stradivarius in 2021 as his handler exclusively revealed that he is to race on as a 7-year-old.

Breeders’ Cup and DRF will bring expanded coverage of the 2020 Breeders’ Cup World Championships to global fans through DRF en Español, which is aimed at providing the most authoritative Spanish-language media coverage of Thoroughbred racing.

Attorneys for owner-trainer Mick Ruis said Oct. 15 that a scheduled California Horse Racing Board hearing on Justify’s post-race test after the 2018 Santa Anita Derby (G1) will go forward after a judge denied a legal effort to halt the hearing.

The son of Danzig is the top active U.S. sire by lifetime percent stakes winners.

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2021 stallion roster and has reduced fees on most of the stallions for the upcoming breeding season.

Fasig-Tipton has released the first group of supplemental entries to The November Sale that will be held Sunday, Nov. 8, in Lexington, beginning at 2 p.m.

The 2018 Champagne Stakes (G1)-winning son of Maclean’s Music to enter stud in 2021.

A year after running five horses in the Breeders’ Cup a Santa Anita, winning the Juvenile Fillies (G1) with British Idiom and the Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) with Covfefe, trainer Brad Cox has nearly doubled his potential Breeders’ Cup representation.

Maria Christina Silva has been named the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards’ community award winner, and will be honored at a virtual ceremony Nov. 5. 

After earning a grade 1 placing, Benjamin and Sally Warren’s California homebred Warren’s Showtime will aim to collect her first graded victory in the $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes (G3T) Oct. 17 at Santa Anita Park.

Topped by a colt from the first crop of Danzing Candy purchased by agent Donato Lanni for $115,000, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales October Sale’s open yearling session Oct. 14 concluded the two-day auction in Ocala, Fla.

Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa announced its 2021 stud fees Oct. 14, one week after the 13-strong stallion roster, led by stalwart breed shapers Curlin and Kitten’s Joy, arrived to the newly renovated and restored 1,400-acre stallion station and nursery.