The Challenge, presented by Gainesway

A stakes schedule packed with $3,575,000 in purses will headline this year’s 14-day September meet at Churchill Downs, featuring 11 black-type events over three weekends.

Effective this weekend, 1/ST Racing will discontinue selling the simulcast signal from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park to Hipódromo Camarero in Puerto Rico to address increasing concerns regarding horse welfare and safety at that racetrack.

Making her first start in the United States for celebrity chef Bobby Flay, no small detail has been overlooked by trainer Miguel Clement as Go Go Boots prepares for the $500,000 Saratoga Oaks Invitational (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 9.

The connections of Florida-based first-crop sire Chance It celebrated his first winner Aug. 7, when the filly Tosca captured the fifth race at Colonial Downs.

In 2020, amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, jockey Abel Lezcano was diagnosed with non-functioning kidneys. Now, he’s healthy again and riding at Del Mar – after his wife Maria donated one of her two kidneys to him.

Multiple graded stakes winner and sire Officer died Aug. 1 at age 26 in Korea, according to the Korean Studbook. Officer was one of the top juveniles in 2001, winning the Champagne Stakes (G1) and the Del Mar Futurity (G2).

Sweetwater Downs will offer the highest purses for horsemen in the track’s history for its 2025 race meet starting on Saturday, Aug. 16. The $1.9 million in purses is a 40% increase over 2024.

A stakes schedule packed with $3.575 million in purses will headline this year’s 14-day September meet at Churchill Downs, featuring 11 black-type events over three weekends.

George Weaver-trained stablemates Governor Sam and Ortley Avenue, the 1-2 finishers of last month’s Quick Call Stakes (G3T), return for the $175,000 Mahony Stakes (G3T) Aug. 10 at Saratoga Race Course.