Breeders’ Cup

The Challenge, presented by Gainesway

The New York Thoroughbred Breeders will honor three more of the greatest New York-breds to compete and represent the program at Saratoga Race Course during the Saratoga New York Showcase Day program Aug. 27.

Nearly 10 months after meeting at Keeneland in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), champions Goodnight Olive and Echo Zulu finally square off again in the $500,000 Ballerina Handicap (G1) Aug. 26 at Saratoga Race Course.

A field of 11 will contest the King Edward, a one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and upward, which is the major local stepping-stone to the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series "Win and You're In" $1 million Woodbine Mile (G1T) Sept. 16.

The biggest change is at Del Mar, where it will get an eight-week summer season with a dark week preceding it. That would be followed by a five-week fall meet—a week longer than the last two years as the track…

A racy son of Vronsky (Hip 114) sold for $100,000 to top the Aug. 15 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale, which posted year-over-year result increases.

He ended his 2-year-old campaign with success in the Tattersalls Stakes (G3), before landing the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) at Del Mar in November of that year.

Whitney Stakes winner White Abarrio remains in second place in the weekly poll of the top 10 horses in contention for the 1 1/4-mile Breeders' Cup Classic, to be run Nov. 4 at Santa Anita Park.

Racing in the Empire State has seen an uptick in purse structure for New York-bred runners, offering incentives for breeders to hit the track with their homebreds or sell in-state, while giving buyers a chance to purchase prospects for the…

Racing in the Empire State has seen an uptick in purse structure for New York-bred runners, offering incentives for breeders to hit the track with their homebreds or sell in-state, while giving buyers a chance to purchase prospects for the…