On Aug. 14 at Saratoga Race Course, a seemingly ordinary seven-furlong allowance race produced an outcome that may have an outsized impact on a pair of graded stakes this weekend.

As the Keeneland September Yearling Sale nears the end, all figures show a healthy increase from the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020. Realistic reserves and buyers working to fill orders contributed to a record low RNA rate of 12.2% for the session.

Following a breakthrough triumph in the Longines Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, 3-year-old Bella Sofia will face older fillies and mares at stakes level for the first time in the $250,000 Gallant Bloom (G2) Sept. 26 at Belmont Park.

The Maryland Racing Commission, upon the recommendation of a committee, has approved a motion to modify a regulation on five corticosteroids to eliminate testing threshold levels and employ level of detection for the substances.

Trainer Michael Yates can’t think of a more fitting way to honor the memory of Gil Campbell than to saddle Cajun’s Magic for a victory in the $400,000 In Reality Division of the FTBOA Stakes at Gulfstream Park Sept. 25.

If everything goes according to plan in the Sept. 25 Turf Monster Stakes (G3T) at Parx Racing, Bobby Flay and Liz Merryman’s Caravel will be flying on a plane to sun-splashed Del Mar in six weeks for the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T).

Government said Sept. 23 it would listen to “detailed representations” for an early review of the levy after being warned there was a risk that Britain would be overtaken as a global hub of racing if action was not taken to improve its finances.

From limited crops, the son of Speightstown has two stakes winners, including Ricoh Woodbine Mile (G1) winner Town Cruise.

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle Pocket Square and Miss Teheran Sept. 25 in the $200,000 Athenia Stakes (G3T), a 1 1/8-mile inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up at Belmont Park.

An Oct. 5 court date in Brooklyn for oral arguments before Judge Carol Bagley Amon has been scheduled for trainer Bob Baffert’s motion to hold the New York Racing Association in contempt for its latest attempt to suspend him.