Laffit Pincay III and Jonathon Kinchen recap Saturday’s graded stakes action from Saratoga and Arlington Park.

Those present at Deauville Aug. 15 and watching around the world may struggle to remember a better mile race in recent years, as Palace Pier and Poetic Flare delivered on the promise of a thriller in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1). 

More than three dozen yearlings will represent a dozen stallions standing in New York at the Fasig-Tipton sale of New York-bred yearlings, which begins the evening of Sunday, Aug. 15, and continues Monday afternoon in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 

Trainer Mark Casse was all smiles the morning of Aug. 15 at Saratoga after securing his first grade 1 victory as a newly enshrined Hall of Famer when Got Stormy bested males to win the Fourstardave Handicap (G1T) for the second time a day earlier.

Plans, implementation of Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority outlined Aug. 15 during The Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.

Seven-time Eclipse Award winner and recently inducted Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and will be away from his stable until Aug. 19.

Live streaming of The Jockey Club’s 69th Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing held virtually on Sunday, August 15.

Live streaming of The Jockey Club’s 69th Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing held virtually on Sunday, August 15.

Former French runner Neige Blanche rallied to win her second U.S. stakes Aug. 14 at Del Mar, powering past Tapwater while holding off Red Lark to take the $85,500 CTT and TOC Stakes.

If the Mr. D. Stakes (GT) was the final vestige of the Arlington Million, it will go into the history books as a victory for the locals, thanks to a felony-level theft.