America’s Best Racing offers a capsule look at the Rebel Stakes (G2) runners.

Del Mar is planning across-the-board increases to its overnight purse schedule from its top allowance offerings all the way down to the maiden claiming ranks for its upcoming summer racing season that kicks off July 18.

For the second consecutive year, Fasig-Tipton will sponsor a best turned-out prize of SAR 10,000 (US$2,666) for the world’s richest race, the group 1 $20 million Saudi Cup Feb. 22 at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh.

The Rebel Stakes along with other races from Oaklawn, Aqueduct, and Tampa Bay Downs airs on “America’s Day at the Races.” Oaklawn coverage will also be available on FanDuel TV.

Herb Oster served as executive director since January 2024.

Brendan Walsh trainees Somethinabouther and Salt depart from the balmy south Florida weather in search of Kentucky Oaks points in the Feb. 21 Cincinnati Trophy Stakes at Turfway Park.

For the fourth consecutive week, 2-year-old champion Citizen Bull has maintained his top spot in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Top 3-Year-Old Poll Feb. 19.

Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst

Among a raft of changes to the French calendar ratified by the European Pattern Committee, a clear determination from French racing’s rulers to return the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) to global pre-eminence shines through.

This month’s Beyond the Headlines features breeder Judy Hicks, who shares her story of entering the horse industry and the journey with Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year.