Matt Darby, founder of aerodynamic jockey silks company Speed Silks, died July 2. He was 54.

Dollars and Sense with Frank Angst

Twin Bridges Stakes

Hard Spun Stakes

BH Interview: R and H Stable’s Rick Hiles and Howard Reed

Multiple graded stakes winning jockey Edwin Gonzalez earned his 2,000th career victory July 20 aboard Bobby Bob in the sixth race at Gulfstream Park for trainer Antonio Sano.

Blackberry Jam became the first black-type stakes winner for Rise Up when the 2-year-old gelding won the King County Express Stakes on the July 20 card at Emerald Downs.

On the July 21 episode of BloodHorse Monday, we recap Journalism’s Haskell Stakes (G1) victory, Jonathan Green of D. J. Stable talks Sandman before the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2), and Monmouth Park’s Dennis Drazin talks New Jersey racing.

After bumping into odds-on favorite Stradale (also by Yaupon), Emphasis reacted with aplomb, recovering quickly to win gate-to-wire.

See The Fire will aim for a breakthrough group 1 success when she lines up for the Nassau Stakes (G1) at the Goodwood Festival July 31—a key fixture in the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series.