Donnacha O’Brien has the Breeders’ Cup in mind for Eclipse Stakes (G1) runner-up A Boy Named Susie, who the trainer clarified has not been sold despite Australian media reports saying he had been bought for seven figures.

Horse owner and breeder Richard “Dick” Otto, whose stable campaigned graded stakes winners Summer Mis and Sir Anthony, dies at age 88.

There’s dominance. And then there’s trainer Chad Brown in the Diana Stakes (G1T). Though Brown started training 19 years ago in 2007, he already owns 10 victories in the Diana.

Barbara Banke, Walker Hancock, Gray Lyster, and Elliott Walden have been reelected to the Breeders’ Cup’s board of directors and will serve four-year terms.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 230 selected yearlings for the 105th Saratoga Sale, to be held Aug. 10-11 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Sessions will begin each evening at 6:30 p.m. ET in the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion.

Junior Alvarado and Luis Saez share Jockey of the Week honors after winning multiple stakes races July 6-12.

Horse owner and breeder Richard “Dick” Otto, whose stable campaigned graded stakes winners Summer Mis and Sir Anthony, dies at age 88.

Janice McNair, who with her husband Bob founded Stonerside Stable in 1984 before leaving the industry to launch the National Football League’s Houston Texans, died July 14. She was 89.

Over 50 international industry leaders attend the IFHA’s inaugural Climate Change and Sustainability Summit July 13-14 in Porto, Portugal.

In this week’s Porter on Pedigrees, Ghostzapper was represented during the July 11-12 weekend by similarly bred graded stakes winner Ole Crazy Bone and stakes winner Ghost Me.