The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association made two significant bylaw changes. One change allows breeders to send their mares to out-of-state stallions every year and still allow their foals to be eligible Louisiana-breds.

Got Stormy only led for one stride of the $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes (G3T) at Keeneland Oct. 9, but it was the stride that mattered.

A 14-page plan includes equalizing equine health protocols between the EU and Britain, digital passports to facilitate seamless transport high-health status horses, and zero tariffs for cross-border movement.

The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association made two significant bylaw changes. One change allows breeders to send their mares to out-of-state stallions every year and still allow their foals to be eligible Louisiana-breds.

Kenny Rice of The Kenny Rice Horse Racing Show recently spoke with Kenny McPeek, the trainer of Preakness Stakes (G1)-winning filly Swiss Skydiver.

Emerald Downs announced Oct. 9 a 10% purse increase for all races over the final three weeks of its race meet, covering Oct. 14-29.

The Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council authorized the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to spend up to $30,000 to participate in a scoping study of the lungs of 2-year-olds led by Dr. Warwick Bayly.

Even if Megacity delivers the first graded stakes victory of John Stephens’ lengthy career in the $150,000 Monmouth Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park Oct. 10, it won’t have quite the same impact that it might for other trainers.

Trainer Chad Brown will seek to win his fourth Sands Point trophy Oct. 10. Christophe Clement saddles grade 2 winner Speaktomeofsummer to challenge the strong Brown entry.

Godolphin have announced the immediate retirement of last year’s champion 2-year-old and three-time group 1 winner Pinatubo.

The Oct. 11 doubleheader of the Futurity Stakes (G3T) and the Matron Stakes (G3T) at Belmont Park offer a pair of six-furlong, non-Lasix graded turf stakes for 2-year-olds, each with a modest purse of $100,000.

Serengeti Empress is scheduled to make her final start in the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Keeneland before she is retired and bred to Into Mischief next year, trainer Tom Amoss said.

The Oct. 11 doubleheader of the Futurity Stakes (G3T) and the Matron Stakes (G3T) at Belmont Park offer a pair of six-furlong, non-Lasix graded turf stakes for 2-year-olds, each with a modest purse of $100,000.

Allen Stable’s Civil Union will look to build on her three-race win streak Oct. 10 at Belmont Park when she meets a field of familiar rivals in the $250,000 Flower Bowl Stakes (G1T) going 1 1/4 miles on the inner turf. 

Jockey Jevian Toledo secured his 1,000th within the mainland United States and Canada Oct. 8 when he piloted James C. Wolf’s Instigated to a 2 1/4-length score in the second race at Laurel Park.

Dave Litfin handicaps some of Saturday’s top stakes races.

The son of Maclean’s Music is already a grade 1 winner with three wins.

Day 3 of the Tattersalls Sale saw M.V. Magnier get the better of a dramatic three-way tussle to secure the Galileo sister to Japan and Mogul at 3.4 million guineas (US$4,612,106), the highest price paid for a yearling the world over this year.

When Micheline travels, she takes her home with her—specifically, a portable stall. The Fair Hill-based 3-year-old filly, entered in the Oct. 12 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana (G1T) at Keeneland, prefers to stay outside.

Following his victory in the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1), Sottsass (123) has joined the top 10 in the third edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2020.