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

The 2020 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) winner Combatant has been retired from racing and will stand at stud at Rockridge Stud near Hudson, N.Y., beginning with the 2022 season.

It’s not so much a new and improved version of Code of Honor who will make his return to the races in the Aug. 21 Philip H. Iselin Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park, trainer Shug McGaughey said, as it is a more mature one.

Dr. Gregory Ferraro, the chairman of the California Horse Racing Board and a veterinarian for over half a century, has been named the 17th recipient of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award.

The Challenge, presented by Gainesway

Klaravich Stables’ Technical Analysis will test the graded waters again as she aims for back-to-back scores during the current Saratoga meet. The daughter of Kingman leads the field of six 3-year-old fillies in the Aug. 21 Lake Placid Stakes (G2T).

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After more than four months off from racing, grade 1 winner Hit the Road is scheduled to return in the $300,000 Del Mar Mile Stakes (G2T) Aug. 21 at Del Mar.

In  the span of just seven years, Sol Kumin has experienced a multitude of thrills with some of the most famous and accomplished horses of the past decade.

There was a time not too long ago when it seemed as if the champion 3-year-old filly had already been crowned.