Here’s a rundown of the current status of various legal challenges to HISA, all of which are pending in the federal court system.

Breeders’ Cup announced May 10 its 2023 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In schedule of 80 races in 11 countries. Each winner will receive automatic qualifying positions, with fees paid.

Butch Reid will send out Didinger and Ninetyprcentmaddie in the May 13 $100,000 Long Branch Stakes, which serves as the opening day feature as Monmouth Park’s 51-day meet gets underway.

The Maryland Horse Foundation is pleased to announce the participants for the sixth edition of the Maryland Thoroughbred Career Program, presented by the Howard and Sondra Bender Educational Series.

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will be on-site this year with several activations during Preakness week. The 148th Preakness Stakes (G1) will take place at Pimlico Race Course May 20.

Acacia Clement & Richard Migliore look back at the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.

Last month’s Greenham Stakes (G3) winner Isaac Shelby will now sport the colors of Wathnan Racing after selling to the Qatari-based operation in a deal brokered by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

Breeders’ Cup announced May 10 its 2023 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In schedule of 80 races in 11 countries. Each winner will receive automatic qualifying positions, with fees paid.

Forte, last year’s champion 2-year-old male, failed a drug test after winning the 2022 Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, the New York Times reports, citing two unnamed sources.

The last few years could be described as formative at Monmouth Park.