The $350,000 Monmouth Cup Stakes (G3) launches the graded action in the fourth race July 18 at Monmouth Park, with three-time graded stakes winner Knightsbridge stretching out to 1 1/8 miles to face Pegasus World Cup (G1) winner Skippylongstocking.

Janice McNair, who founded Stonerside Stable with her husband Bob in 1984 before leaving the industry to launch the National Football League's Houston Texans, died July 14. She was 89.

Over 50 international industry leaders attend the IFHA's inaugural Climate Change and Sustainability Summit July 13-14 in Porto, Portugal.

Horse owner and breeder Richard "Dick" Otto, whose stable campaigned graded stakes winners Summer Mis and Sir Anthony, dies at age 88.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 230 selected yearlings for the 105th Saratoga Sale, to be held Aug. 10-11 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Sessions will begin each evening at 6:30 p.m. ET in the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion.

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After missing a trip to Royal Ascot, Cy Fair is back in action July 18 against a quality field in the $225,000 Coronation Cup Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course.

Junior Alvarado and Luis Saez share Jockey of the Week honors after winning multiple stakes races July 6-12.

In this week's Porter on Pedigrees, Ghostzapper was represented during the July 11-12 weekend by similarly bred graded stakes winner Ole Crazy Bone and stakes winner Ghost Me.

Last-ditch efforts to save racing at Hawthorne Race Course apparently have fallen short as the only bid at a bankruptcy auction came from a developer planning to demolish the track.