Damon Thayer’s theme when he delivered the keynote address Feb. 25 at the National Horsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Association’s 2025 conference? “Cooperation is always better than extinction.” 

Ascot Racecourse, The Jockey Club, and Churchill Downs announced an extension of the ‘wild card’ entry initiative launched last year that ties together Royal Ascot, the Epsom Derby Festival, and the Kentucky Derby meeting at Churchill Downs.

Jockeys Jose Ortiz and Juan Vargas share the Jockeys’ Guild’s Jockey of the Week honors for Feb. 17-23 after stakes-winning weekends at Oaklawn Park.

Ascot Racecourse, The Jockey Club, and Churchill Downs announced an extension of the ‘wild card’ entry initiative launched last year that ties together Royal Ascot, the Epsom Derby Festival, and the Kentucky Derby meeting at Churchill Downs.

Barnes, one of three Bob Baffert trainees, would be the fourth son of Into Mischief to win the San Felipe for Baffert.

Letters to the Editor for BH Daily, Feb. 26

A total of 157 horses sold for $4,965,400. The sale averaged $31,626 with a clearance rate of 80%. The catalog offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, 2-year-olds in training, broodmares, and short yearlings.

Godolphin’s First Resort, scratched from the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes Feb. 22 at Turfway Park due to hind-end stiffness, has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left hock, trainer Eoin Harty said.

Heart to Heart captured two consecutive runnings of the Canadian Turf Stakes (G3T) in 2016-17 at Gulfstream Park for owner Terry Hamilton and trainer Brian Lynch. Now Heart to Heart’s top-earning son, Silent Heart, pursues Canadian Turf glory.

The American Horse Council is excited to present our first quarter webinar of 2025, “The Business of Horses” featuring Jen Shah, tax director at Dean Dorton, March 10.