Emerald Downs will offer a reduced takeout of 14.7% on all win, place, and show wagers for its upcoming 2022 season. The reduced takeout is the lowest for WPS wagers in the country.

There was a competitive market at the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up Sale in Newmarket April 28, when the sale-topper proved to be the Time Test colt (Lot 145) out of Luna Mare bought by Michael O’Callaghan for $211,025.

For the last two years, the opening of Monmouth Park has generated more question marks than exclamation points.

Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges was unanimously elected president of the International Horse Sports Confederation at the organization’s general assembly on April 22.

Trainer Richard Baltas goes for the three-peat, having won the last two editions of the San Francisco Mile (G3T) with Whisper Not and Neptune’s Storm. He sends up Vanzzy, a grade 3-placed 5-year-old who won the Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park in 2020.

The spring race meet at Keeneland comes to a close April 29 after a full day of racing, but the excitement will continue into the evening with the April Horses of Racing Age Sale, with 103 horses in current form cataloged to the one-day event.

Klaravich Stables’ multiple graded stakes-placed, stakes-winning Value Proposition will return to sprinting for the first time since November when he contests a field of 11 in the April 30 Elusive Quality Stakes going seven furlongs at Belmont Park.

Dual group 1-winning sprinter Home Affairs, the son of I Am Invincible who will chase international glory at Royal Ascot in June, will retire to Coolmore this season as the most expensive first season sire in Australian Thoroughbred breeding history.

Multiple grade 1 winner and second-crop sire Dortmund died April 18 due to colic caused by a twisted colon, according to Great Hill Farm in South Korea, where the stallion was exported in 2021.

Trainer Richard Baltas goes for the three-peat, having won the last two editions of the San Francisco Mile (G3T) with Whisper Not and Neptune’s Storm. He sends up Vanzzy, a grade 3-placed 5-year-old who won the Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park in 2020.