Comments made at last weekend’s National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa, may have contained hints about the next direction of multiple legal disputes concerning the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act.

Keeping a Thoroughbred healthy and fit for racing is a multi-factorial equation. In recent years, more attention has been given to the importance of gut health when it comes to overall equine health management.

Welcome to the Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing at the Saratoga Springs City Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., hosted by The Jockey Club and presided over by Stuart Janney III, chairman of The Jockey Club.

Racing Maryland-champions like Phlash Phelps and Hello Beautiful, Ellen Charles has long been a standard-bearer for equine excellence in her state. In 2024, she is riding high with 4-year-old multiple graded stakes winner Post Time.

Bob Baffert-trained Adare Manor has won seven graded stakes, two in 2024, and is going for a second consecutive Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) victory.

While trainer Todd Pletcher was hesitant to commit Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) winner Fierceness to the Aug. 24 Midsummer Derby immediately after the race, an injury that has sidelined stablemate Mindframe appears to have changed that perspective.

Authoring an encore might be an impossible mission for Cogburn. Let’s face it, when you set a North American record in your last start, that’s a pretty tough bar to top.

Belmont Stakes (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1) runner-up Mindframe emerged with bone bruising from his latest battle with Dornoch and will miss most of the remainder of the year, according to co-owner Mike Repole July 31.

A review released July 31 by the office of New York State Gaming Commission equine medical director Dr. Scott Palmer examined 17 equine fatalities at Saratoga Race Course last summer and generated a series of recommendations. 

The Jockey Club announced the rebranding of its wholly owned commercial subsidiaries—The Jockey Club Information Systems, The Jockey Club Technology Services, and InCompass Solutions Inc.—under a single commercial brand called TJC Innovations.