On the penultimate day of the spring meet at Churchill Downs, graded stakes winners My Prankster and Gunite battle in the $160,000 Maxfield Overnight Stakes July 3 against four other rivals. 

Thoroughbred Owners of California’s longest-running board member, Jack Owens, and its executive director, Mary Forney, are set to retire July 1.

Dual group 1 winner Sierra Sue will be auctioned in a bespoke Inglis Digital Online Sale later this month after connections of the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained mare chose to retire the high-class sprinter-miler. 

The Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award competition has been held for the 16th time to honor the best of long-format race writing. Three finalists were selected by a panel of judges from nearly two dozen submissions published during 2021.

The New York Thoroughbred Breeders and the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund are recognized for their contributions to Thoroughbred aftercare as the June “Donors of the Month” for the TAKE2 Program.

NYRA and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will highlight the career and accomplishments of the cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq during a ceremony at Belmont Park on Saturday, July 9, as part of the Stars and Stripes Racing Festival.

In just his third race since last year’s Highlander—all this year—Silent Poet is coming off a fifth-place finish in the Jacques Cartier Stakes (G3) on Woodbine’s all-weather track.

The top three finishers from the La Troienne Stakes (G1) will face each other again July 2 in the $350,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes (G2) going 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs.

Bo Hirsch’s Ce Ce is scheduled to ship from Santa Anita Park to Gulfstream Park June 29 for a planned title defense in Saturday’s $300,000 Princess Rooney Invitational Stakes (G2).

Veterinarian Michael Posner entered a plea of guilty June 29 to a single count of drug adulteration and misbranding in federal court.