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.
Three trainers—Luis Diaz, Erin Thompson, and Dominic Duree—received lengthy suspensions in separate Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit cases adjudicated in recent weeks.
Spendthrift Farm's first-crop yearling sire Taiba has the top average among first-crop sires with two or more sold at Fasig-Tipton's The July Sale. The farm had four first-crop sires represented at the sale.
Donnacha O'Brien has the Breeders' Cup in mind for Eclipse Stakes (G1) runner-up A Boy Named Susie, who the trainer clarified has not been sold despite Australian media reports saying he had been bought for seven figures.
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.
There's dominance. And then there's trainer Chad Brown in the Diana Stakes (G1T). Though Brown started training 19 years ago in 2007, he already owns 10 victories in the Diana.
Barbara Banke, Walker Hancock, Gray Lyster, and Elliott Walden have been reelected to the Breeders' Cup's board of directors and will serve four-year terms.
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.