While an individual horse's vaccine schedule may seem like a fairly set piece of care, it is important to remember that both changes to the horse's situation and changes within vaccine protocols themselves need to be kept in mind.
It’s rare for a breeder to have two graded stakes competitors on one card. Robert Slack of Stoneriggs Farm is an exception. On Aug. 29 at Saratoga, Stoneriggs-bred runners competed in the Travers Stakes (G1) and H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1).
In this week's Eye on the World, with BloodHorse correspondent and world traveler Bob Kieckhefer, Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's death adds to a roster of change in big international operations.
This year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale produced results that are contrary to what has been the typical pattern of growth being concentrated at the top of the market. The 2026 edition saw the highest growth rates in the lower third of the sale.
Paul and Zillah Reddam base their Thoroughbred racing and breeding operation out of Southern California, but the couple's Reddam Racing has enjoyed an inordinate amount of success at Churchill Downs and Keeneland.
Zulu Kingdom will have an opportunity to secure a special spot in Keeneland racing history when he starts from the outside post in an expected field of nine in the Turf Mile Stakes (G1T) Oct. 3 at the Lexington track.
Juddmonte's Jonquil, a narrow runner-up in last year's Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas, G1) and a winner of the Celebration Mile Stakes (G2), headlines the catalog for next month's Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale.
Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey knows what a promising 2-year-old colt looks like. And he saw one in U. S. S. Valor after the juvenile's Aug. 8 debut at Saratoga Race Course.
Maxify and Repo Man—first-out winners by Ashford Stud stallions Justify and Golden Pal, respectively—are two of the race favorites in the Oct. 4 Zuma Beach Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park, along with Duty Bound, an unbeaten Jack Christopher filly.