Both riders suffered injuries as a result of a spill in the fourth race July 2.

Jockey Samy Camacho will undergo further evaluation July 3 in Florida to learn the extent of a right shoulder injury he suffered during a spill in Monmouth Park’s fourth race Sunday, according to his agent Mike Moran.

Bill Harrigan’s Miacomet Farm has a rising star in its sky. Racing in the Miacomet name, the talented sophomore filly Heavenly Sunday is owned by Harrigan and his partners, including longtime collaborator Mike Pietrangelo.

Anne Eberhardt visits Old Friends in Georgetown, KY and talks to Michael Blowen about Old Friends’ oldest member, Little Silver Charm, in the first of July’s episodes of our exclusive BH+ series!

A homebred for Barry and Joni Butzow, the colt named after his owner’s favorite restaurant in the Virgin Islands skipped over the Ellis Park slop to his third straight victory in the July 2 $275,000 Hanshin Cup Stakes.

Martin Dwyer, 48, confirmed he would not ride again, 16 months on from tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and damaging bone in the same area after a fall while riding out for Brian Meehan in March 2022.

Steve Asmussen-trained Ryvit won his fifth straight race in the July 2 Maxfield Overnight Stakes at Ellis Park.

Trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci, who won his third race of the Belmont spring/summer meet, said he was confident Evvie Jets could take on the trio of Chad Brown trainees. 

Nathan McCauley had a hunch that the 2019 colt out of his mare Walking Miracle was going to be special. Four years later, the breeder/owner’s hunch has proved accurate as that colt, now called Stitched, became a grade 2 winner July 1 at Ellis Park.

Lady d’Oro is out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Popstar and was foaled in Kentucky and bred by Lauren West, Val Henson, and Jonathan Thomas Racing.