With a July release of plans to launch the Horse Racing League, the team-based league's co-founder Greg Maffei proved a timely choice as keynote speaker at The Jockey Club's Round Table on Matters Pertaining to Racing Aug. 6.
In case anyone failed to get the memo after many of the presentations at this year's edition of The Jockey Club Round Table focused on building fan interest, Everett Dobson hammered home the message in his closing remarks.
Gude Affair has been recognized as the 2025 Rood & Riddle Sport Horse of the Year Award winner. The presentation of the award will be Sept. 10 during the TOBA National Awards Dinner, hosted at The Kentucky Castle in Versailles, Ky.
With a July release of plans to launch the Horse Racing League, the team-based league's co-founder, Greg Maffei, proved a timely choice as keynote speaker at The Jockey Club's Round Table on Matters Pertaining to Racing Aug. 6.
Thousand Words was a $1 million sales yearling that went on to win graded stakes at 2 and 3. The third-crop sire by Pioneerof the Nile is out of multiple grade 1-placed, multiple graded stakes winner Pomeroys Pistol.
As a number of presenters talked about engaging new fans at the 2026 edition of The Jockey Club's Round Table on Matters Pertaining to Racing Aug. 6 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., marketing expert Tor Edwards noted that young people are aware of racing.
Davant Latham's Trendsetter, winner of the Lexington Stakes (G3), aims for his second graded stakes win in the $400,000 West Virginia Derby (G3) Aug. 9 at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort.
Racing Australia has announced the finalists for the 2025-26 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards, with Half Yours, Autumn Glow, Via Sistina, Sheza Alibi, and Sir Delius among the contenders for the top honor.