The TOBA confirmed May 31 that the Saratoga Educational Seminar is now set for Aug.17-18. The seminar is among a calendar of events featuring various topics for prospective, new, and established Thoroughbred owners and breeders.

A schedule of TV and radio coverage for the week ahead (June 1-4), compiled by America’s Best Racing.

After finding a stewards’ ruling that declined to disqualify Justify from his win of the 2018 Santa Anita Derby so unclear it cannot be judicially reviewed, a Los Angeles judge will provide officials an opportunity to clarify their position.

Spendthrift Farm’s Major Dude, a onetime Kentucky Derby (G1) hopeful and among the nation’s top 3-year-old turf horses, invades Penn National Race Course June 2 for the $400,000 Penn Mile (G2T).

The local hero’s nine wins at Churchill Downs are only surpassed by Ready’s Rocket, who won 10 times under the twin spires.

Porter on Pedigrees

Dermot Weld paid tribute to the “extremely talented and courageous” Rite of Passage after the Irish National Stud announced the death of the 2010 Ascot Gold Cup (G1) hero at the age of 19.

Saying “the urgency became clear” as equine fatalities grew to 12 this spring at Churchill Downs through racing May 29, HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus told reporters May 30 she expects to provide a May 31 update on findings related to equine safety there.

Multiple classic-winning and Breeders’ Cup-winning trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. was granted a Kentucky trainer’s license May 30 at a meeting of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s License Review Committee.

A filly with an Inglis Easter pedigree was the shining light on Day 1 of an otherwise subdued Magic Millions National Yearling Sale, with the AU$750,000 The Autumn Sun blueblood purchased by Hong Kong interests.