Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa’s marquee sire Curlin will stand for $250,000 for 2024, his stud fee now equal to multiple leading sire Into Mischief.

The first day of preliminary competition has concluded at the 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium. The Thoroughbred Makeover is the largest and most lucrative retraining competition in the world.

The eighth panel of the OwnerView Virtual Thoroughbred Owner Conference held Oct. 10 featured an equine surgery video and a discussion about the video with surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage and OwnerView’s project manager, Gary Falter.

Kentucky Derby Museum set an all-time attendance record with a quarter of a million guests in the fiscal year 2023, which ran from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023.

Nutella Fella, winner of the Sept. 4 Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, is done for the year due to a hairline ankle fracture in his left hind leg, trainer Gary Contessa told BloodHorse Oct. 12.

Multiple-leading North American sire Tapit’s fee for 2024 remains unchanged at $185,000 for the fourth consecutive year.

The second session of the Ocala Breeders’ October Yearling Sale Oct. 11 saw a son of champion OBS graduate Mitole, consigned by Sue Vacek, go to Quarter Pole Enterprises at $250,000. The colt topped the second session and the entire sale.

When a grade 1 winner is entered in a turf race for the first time during a rainy period, the logical conclusion is that the connections are hoping for soggy ground and a switch to the main track. But that’s not the case with Leave No Trace.

Il Malocchio, a daughter of Souper Speedy, has finished off the board just twice in the last two years. 

The New York Racing Association said Oct. 11 that it has purchased Maple Sugar Farm in Duchess County, N.Y., with the intention of using the 466-acre horse farm for a variety of purposes.