Take Charge Star will make the trip to the U.S. to try the European-style turf course Sept. 7 at Kentucky Downs in the $1.5 million Franklin-Simpson Stakes (G2T). Twelve 3-year-olds will line up for the 6 1/2-furlong race.

The Maryland Thoroughbred community is invited to gather in remembrance of longtime trainer Howard Wolfendale at a Celebration of Life Sept. 9 at Laurel Park.

Racing in mainland China will not begin next month as planned after the Hong Kong Jockey Club said competitive action at Conghua had been "postponed to a later date."

Trainer David Hayes is confident Ka Ying Rising, despite a foot bruise earlier this week, is ready to go for the Sept. 6 Chief Executive's Cup Handicap (G3) at Sha Tin Racecourse.

JR Ranch's 3-year-old filly by Maxfield won her last two starts by a combined 12 1/2 lengths, including the Tyson Gilpin Stakes at Colonial Downs.

D. J. Stable's Pros and Cons returns to stakes company off an impressive second-out local graduation for Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse in the Sept. 4 P. G. Johnson Stakes, a1 1/16-mile inner turf test for juvenile fillies at Saratoga Race Course.

Three-year-old filly Natural Fling will be placed in the deep end Sept. 5 when she takes on her elders in the Moir Stakes (G1) over 1,000 meters (about 5 furlongs) at Sandown Racecourse. 

Doug O'Neill will run three from his stable in an effort to derail a tough pair from the Bob Baffert barn in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) going 7 furlongs Sept. 6. Baffert will be going for his 20th victory in the grade 1 event.

Light Up Racing launches its free, online Welfare Communications Workshop, making the communications training delivered to Thoroughbred industry participants across six tracks over the past two years available industrywide for the first time.

A loaded field of 10 is set to battle for bragging rights in the $2 million Mint Millions Invitational Stakes (G3T) Sept. 7 at Kentucky Downs, the headline race of the track's Labor Day card.