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Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainer Raul Vega, summarily suspended in New Mexico in March after one of his horses arrived in the paddock before a race at Sunland Park in troubling condition, was fined $10,000 and issued a five-year suspension.

The final session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale under tack show May 18 concluded with the Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds, agent, consigned Arrogate filly blitzing a furlong bullet in :10 Thursday.

Trainers are always under the microscope and that hasn't been truer than following the Kentucky Derby (G1) and the 10 days preceding the race. In that time there were seven horse fatalities and numerous injuries. 

Fifty years and a day after the start of a lifetime of intense love of horses and racing, Norma Barnes-Euresti found herself at the center of a memorable few minutes on the track at Churchill Downs May 6.

German racing is not renowned for producing early-season 2-year-olds and the breeze-up section of the catalog presents a more eclectic selection of stallions and pedigrees than other sales of its kind.

Trainer John Salzman Jr. discusses Coffeewithchris being a long shot in the Preakness Stakes (G1), playing the role of underdog, and how he imagines the race playing out.

Katrina Helmer has been named the new director of communications at the Kentucky Derby Museum and will take over for Rachel Collier Carr, who is leaving to spend more time with her family.

The Road, presented by Gainesway and Darby Dan Farm

Buyers at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale May 18 lapped up the chance to buy once-off offerings by Sheri Iskander and the dispersal of Edinburgh Park Stud, with those two parties responsible for selling the top five lots on…