A busy stakes weekend at Kentucky Downs will come to a close Sept. 7 with juveniles spotlighted in a pair of million-dollar stakes.

In the month following their siblings’ first top-level success, the full sister to Seismic Beauty and half brother to Hope Road will enter the sales ring on opening day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 8.

Max Ciao becomes the initial stakes winner for first-crop sire Maxfield in scoring a narrow victory in the $101,000 I’m Smokin Stakes at Del Mar.

Max Ciao becomes the initial stakes winner for first-crop stallion Maxfield in scoring a narrow victory in the $101,000 I’m Smokin Stakes at Del Mar.

In the shadows of 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline lies a strong group of first-crop yearling sires with offspring headed to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Sept. 8-20. Life Is Good ranks second by average behind Flightline at $430,455.

Sale histories for horses in the Sept. 9 second session of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

In the shadows of 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline lies a strong group of first-crop yearling sires with offspring headed to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Sept. 8-20. Life Is Good ranks second by average behind Flightline at $430,455.

As the 2025 Del Mar summer meet approaches its final days, On Racing focuses on the 2-year-old turf colt Hey Nay Nay, plus a look at the John C. Mabee Stakes (G2T), present and past.

“She’s bred to be brilliant,” said auctioneer John O’Kelly when Gestut Brummerhof presented the Sea The Stars filly out of Novemba midway through the BBAG Yearling Sale in Baden-Baden Sept. 6. 

A federal appeals court ruling upheld a lower court judgment denying a mortality insurance claim following the untimely death of stallion Laoban.