Aron Wellman joined the BloodHorse Monday podcast Feb. 24 to discuss Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Kentucky Derby hopefuls Built and Journalism. Frank Angst and Chance Moquett also highlight a new ratings system being developed by Equibase.

BH Interview with Tom Hamm

The gross of AU$1.95 million, off 83 lots sold, was markedly down on last year’s AU$2.82 million from 94 sold, and substantially down on 2023’s AU$3.85 million and the AU$4.32 million in the post-Covid boom year of 2022.

Horse Racing Radio Network, the award-winning broadcast organization based in Lexington, announced today that its popular weekly Trainer Talk show presented by Fasig-Tipton will be moving to a new day and time.

Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy’s Race for Grace event at Churchill Downs April 28.

For the first time since the data has been tracked and recorded, the racing-related fatal injury rate at racetracks under HISA’s authority fell below 1.00 per 1,000 starts for the 2024 calendar year, HISA announced.

Quietside soared to her first graded stakes victory in the $500,000 Honeybee Stakes (G3) Feb. 23 at Oaklawn Park, defeating Five G and even-money favorite Muhimma earning 50 points on the road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1).

Triumphing for a third time on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, Coal Battle proved he’s more than just a feel-good story in the $1.25 million Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park Feb. 23.

Alexander Helios bobbed at the wire to hold off Banishing, earning his first graded stakes victory in the Razorback Handicap and improving to 2-1-0 since reuniting with trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.

Greg Wolf & Sara Elbadwi look back at the Heavenly Prize at Aqueduct & Gulfstream Park Sprint at Gulfstream this weekend.