The “European Road to the Kentucky Derby” starts Sept. 24 with races in Ireland and England.

Registration for Thoroughbred racing’s biggest live-money handicapping tournament, the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge, is now open.

It may be the 10th session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale but impressive horses are still garnering impressive prices at the mammoth auction.

Best Actor took center stage at Parx Racing when he won the Smarty Jones Stakes (G3) last month, but rather than return for the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) there Sept. 24, trainer Brad Cox is sending the Kentucky-stabled colt to the Midwest.

The Illinois 2023 racing schedule gives prime summer dates to Thoroughbreds at Hawthorne Race Course.

Isa Salman & Abdulla Al Khalifa’s unbeaten Commissioning will line up Sept. 23 in the Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Rockfel Stakes (G2), run on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course.

It was a very happy homecoming for the September Yearling Sale with Part Two following the lead set by Part One in posting impressive increases and a healthy 82% clearance rate.

Leading rider Jaime Rodriguez fell a win shy of equaling the United States record for most consecutive winners by a jockey at Delaware Park Sept. 22. 

La Petite Coco is yet another top-level-winning filly set to be offered at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale’s new Sceptre Session on Nov. 29.

Chad Brown will saddle a pair of top contenders in Kalifornia Queen and Love And Thunder in the Sept. 24 $175,000 Athenia Stakes (G3T), a 1 1/8-mile inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.