The University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program announces that sports team owner Randy Boyd, co-owner of Boyd Racing, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2026 Global Symposium on Racing Dec. 7-9 at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson.
The Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint Stakes (G2T) is a Breeders' Cup Challenge: Win and You're In qualifier for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) being held Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
The fillies Miss Monica and Holmby will try to give Bob Baffert his 13th victory in the Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1) Sept. 5 when they top a field of 10 going 7 furlongs on the main track for a $300,000 purse and a grade 1 credential.
A new record price was set at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale Sept. 2 when a daughter of Sioux Nation brought the hammer down at 185,000 guineas, only to be bested later in the session by a Blue Point filly who brought 190,000 guineas.
For the first time, Breeders Sales of Louisiana split its annual sale into a live preferred yearling sale in September, to be followed next month by a digital mixed sale. A total of 121 yearlings changed hands for a gross of $2,580,200.
Group 1 winner Zavateri will make his last appearance in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) Oct. 17 at Ascot Racecourse before retiring to stand at Tally-Ho Stud for the 2027 breeding season.
Shannon Hill Farm's Mr Percy prevails narrowly to land his first top-level stakes victory in the Sept. 2 Jonathan Sheppard Memorial (NSA-1), a 2 3/8-mile sarsteeplechase handicap for older horses at Saratoga Race Course.
Glacius showed a natural liking for American turf by winning the Saratoga Derby Stakes (G1T) Aug. 8 by 1 1/4 lengths. He returns in the $3 million Nashville Derby Invitational Stakes (G2T), the richest turf race for 3-year-olds in the U.S.
The Sunshine Meet at Gulfstream Park, a precursor to the Championship Meet, begins Sept. 4 with a nine-race program and a stakes schedule highlighted by the $225,000 Princess Rooney Stakes (G3).