The $135,000 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga is not a time-honored path to the Travers Stakes (G1). Yet the Curlin serves a purpose as one last chance to swim in a shallow pond before heading over to much deeper waters in the Aug. 23 Mid-Summer Derby.

Porter on Pedigrees

Conrad Bandoroff, Rowland Hancock, and Craig Brogden have been elected to the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders board of directors, the organization announced on social media July 22.

Sales histories for Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale Aug. 4-5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Jockey Tyler Gaffalione returned from a four-month injury layoff to win aboard five of his first seven mounts at Ellis Park, including sweeping the July 20 Jeff Hall Memorial Stakes aboard Banishing and the July 21 Twin Bridges Stakes on Asternia.

After winning the July 19 Haskell Stakes (G1) by half-length at Monmouth Park, Journalism has sprung from No. 6 to No. 3 in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Top Thoroughbred Poll.

Sales histories for Fasig-Tipton’s 2025 New York-Bred Yearlings Sale Aug. 10-11 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The fourth annual HRWA Conference will feature a welcome reception, keynote address, featured afternoon speaker, three panel discussions, and a special presentation of the Jane Goldstein Award.

Gary Barber, Blue Crevalle Racing and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partner’s Classic Q looks for her second win at Saratoga Race Course in the $175,000 Lake George Stakes (G3T) July 26. She will face a field of nine 3-year-old fillies.

Matt Darby, founder of aerodynamic jockey silks company Speed Silks, died July 2. He was 54.