The 2026 Kentucky Downs meet will feature 20 stakes races with $25.75 million in total purses. The seven-day racing season opens Aug. 29 and continues Aug. 30, Sept. 3, Sept. 5-7, and Sept. 9, offering stakes action every date.
Crisis was averted at Delaware Park in the late evening hours of Aug. 10 as a small barn fire was extinguished by a sprinkler system. No injuries to horses or humans were reported.
At the Racing and Gaming Conference at Saratoga, HISA independent ombudsman Alan Foreman notes important areas where the independent enforcement agency that launched fully in May 2023 has moved racing forward.
When the CA$1 million King's Plate, the oldest continuously run horse race in North America, is renewed Aug. 15, the rail-drawn Luster will be heavily favored to become the 40th filly to win the 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.
Keeneland has cataloged 4,635 horses for the 83rd edition of its September Yearling Sale, which will cover 12 sessions from Sept. 14 through Sept. 26. The catalog is now online.
The 2026 Kentucky Downs meet will feature 20 stakes races with $25.75 million in total purses. The seven-day racing season opens on Saturday, Aug. 29, and continues on Aug. 30, Sept. 3, Sept. 5-7, and Sept. 9, offering stakes action on every date.
Godolphin's Sovereignty is atop the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll following his 4 3/4-length come-from-behind victory against a star-studded field in the Aug. 8 Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
After last year selling a trio of colts at Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale, two of which have already gone on to debut victories, Bridie Harrison, agent for breeder Peter E. Blum, is back at the select sale this year with four more promising colts.