California-bred champion Chismosa has faced the brilliant Sweet Azteca four times, winning once, and will try again in the Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3) at Del Mar.

Harris Farms’ first-crop sire Halladay, a grade 1-winning son of international sire War Front, got his first winner when his 2-year-old son Arkadelphia won Aug. 22 at Del Mar.

In this week’s edition of On Racing: a discussion of the history of the Travers Stakes (G1), field sizes, and the recent records established by Doncho and jockey Perry Ouzts.

Retired jockey Ron Turcotte, remembered for riding Secretariat to win the 1973 Triple Crown during a Hall of Fame career, died of natural causes Aug. 22 in his Drummond home outside Grand Falls, New Brunswick, in Canada. 

A pair of full siblings to Breeders’ Cup winners square off in a competitive six-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies Aug. 23 at Ellis Park.

Top-class colt Rosallion heads the field for the newly upgraded City of York Stakes (G1).

Kentucky Downs kicks off its seven-day all-turf meet Aug. 28 with the $500,000 Tapit Stakes, which is among the races during the meet that will be able to accommodate 14 starters as a result of a new starting gate at the Franklin, Ky., oval.

Noor Elaine Farm’s Asfoora bounced back to winning ways in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) Aug. 22 at York Racecourse. The victory secured the 7-year-old an automatic berth into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T).

Sir Mark Prescott’s exciting 2-year-old Moon Target is set for her stiffest task yet as she takes on a compelling field of talented 2-year-old fillies in the Prestige Fillies’ Stakes (G3) at Goodwood Aug. 24.

The Retired Racehorse Project and Thoroughbred Charities of America announce that the TCA has returned as the title sponsor of the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, the banner event of the RRP.