Bluestocking will bid to go one better than her runner-up effort in last season’s Irish Oaks (G1) in the June 29 Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) as she returns to Curragh for trainer Ralph Beckett.

The catalog for Arqana’s flagship August Yearling Sale has been unveiled and includes 20 lots either out of or siblings to group 1 winners.

NYRA racing analyst Maggie Wolfendale reported on the social media platform X June 28 that a memorial service would be held for former Steve Asmussen assistant Toby Sheets at the Belmont Park Chaplaincy Center.

Despite two losses to start her 4-year-old year, trainer Phil Bauer is confident that Xigera still has a chance to be one of the leading members of the distaff division. She has her chance to prove it June 29 in the $500,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes (G2).

Apprentice jockey Austin Adams would love nothing more than to graduate at the top of his racing class early next month at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse.

Funny Cide, the only New York-bred to win the Kentucky Derby and the standard bearer for the “little guy” in horse racing, will be remembered on July 4 at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack.

Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Seize the Grey resumed breezing June 22 at Churchill Downs after his seventh in the June 8 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. Another breeze is planned soon toward a likely start in the July 20 Haskell Stakes (G1).

Trainer Ciaron Maher believes another wide draw will not inconvenience Bella Nipotina when the star mare makes her ninth start of this preparation in the June 29 Tattersalls Tiara (G1).

The Texas tradition of festival racing continues this weekend, but the focus shifts to the turf as top grass horses descend on Lone Star Park for the fourth annual Summer Turf Festival on June 29.

Despite two losses to start her 4-year-old year, trainer Phil Bauer is confident that Xigera still has a chance to be one of the leading members of the Distaff division. She has her chance to prove it June 29 in the $500,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes (G2).