To Mike Gillum, the reigning National Horseplayers Championship winner, family always comes first, but after that horse racing is his No. 1 passion.  

Breeders’ Cup has released ticket information for the two-day event at Del Mar before tickets go on sale April 23 at noon ET.

Byron King’s Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.

Maiden Watch: Week of March 3-9

Midway into the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, Hip 119, a colt by first-crop sire Maxfield, commanded a price of $1 million from Mitsu Nakauchida.

Fans will have another opportunity to wager on their favorites in the fifth pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager and lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, which begins March 14 at noon ET and March 16.

Jockey Angel Castillo, who rides in the mid-Atlantic, rode his 1,000th North American winner March 11 while taking the opening race at Parx Racing aboard Hi Heeled Warrior.

BloodHorse news editor Byron King recaps the March 8 Tampa Bay Derby (G3), reviews a sharp recent workout from Holy Bull Stakes (G3) runner-up Tappan Street, and previews the March 15 Virginia Derby.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.

Nine of the Midwest’s top sprinters, all stakes winners, will line up March 15 to compete for the winner’s share of a $250,000 prize in the Whitmore Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park.