Nick Tammaro will assume the role of track announcer at Sam Houston Race Park when the 2022 live racing season gets underway Jan. 6.

Tracy Farmer’s Sir Winston put a forgettable 4-year-old campaign behind him in his first start at age 5, winning the sixth race at Woodbine Aug. 19, a CA$108,700 allowance optional claiming race, by two lengths.

Tracy Farmer’s Sir Winston put a forgettable 4-year-old campaign behind him in his first start at age 5, winning the sixth race at Woodbine Aug. 19, a CA$108,700 allowance optional claiming race, by two lengths.

Stradivarius bids to better the likes of Persian Punch, Celeric, and Further Flight by winning the Aug. 20 Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup Stakes (G2) for a record third time with Spanish Mission and Trueshan looking to spoil that record.

After saddling Golden Pal to a superb victory in last year’s $120,000 Skidmore Stakes, trainer Wesley Ward will try for a repeat victory in the race, sending out stakes winner Overbore and impressive maiden winner Kaufymaker Aug. 20 at Saratoga.

Having battled earlier this summer in an allowance optional claimer, Scotish Star and Stellar Sound meet again Aug. 20 with black type at stake in the $100,000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3) at Del Mar.

Trainer Orlando Noda was fined $5,000 in an Aug. 15 ruling posted on the New York Gaming Commission website for “action detrimental to the best interest of racing.”

Wesley Ward says Golden Pal could be the best horse he has trained in the build-up to the Ebor meeting and the trainer’s confidence has not waned as he bids to crack the Aug. 20 Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) at last.

Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel today announced its 2021-22 Thoroughbred stakes schedule.

The nation’s second-leading trainer by wins in 2021, Karl Broberg, has entered the $175,000 Governor’s Cup Stakes defending champion, Hunka Burning Love, back in the race opening night Aug. 20 at Remington Park.