While sponsoring British Champions Day since 2011, QIPCO will transfer the sponsorship to Qatar Racing for the next three years. Qatar Racing will look to expand its international racing, bloodstock, and breeding interests as the new title sponsor.
Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst, presented by the NTRA, examines a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that found games of skill operating in the state illegal. The decision figures to benefit Thoroughbred racing.
In outlining a lucrative six-race series for 3-year-olds that will include the Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and a new championship race, executives from CDI and NYRA express hope that the new series will draw more attention to racing.
On the Aug. 3 episode of BloodHorse Monday: D. J. Stable's Jonathan Green on running Nitrogen against the boys in the Whitney Stakes (G1), Todd Pletcher speaks about Renegade's Jim Dandy (G2) win, and we react to the Thoroughbred Championship Series.
Multiple stakes-winning jockey Guillermo Rodriguez rode his 1,000th North American winner Aug. 1 when Mother Volga won the seventh race at Belterra Park.