Yearlings selling during session 7, Sept. 20, and session 8, Sept. 21, at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Yearlings selling during session 9 (Sept. 22), session 10 (Sept. 23), and session 11 (Sept. 24) at the Keeneland September Sale. The final day of the sale will offer sessions 11 and 12 combined.

Multiple graded stakes winner Rocketry—a son of Hard Spun with earnings of more than $811,000 and three track records to his credit—has been retired, according to an Aug. 13 announcement.

Trainer Wesley Ward will saddle a strong pair of contenders in Hat Creek Racing’s Illegal Smile and Stonestreet Stables’ Wink for the Aug. 15 $120,000 Galway Stakes, a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint for sophomore fillies, at Saratoga Race Course.

Mastercraftsman, a four-time group 1 winner who developed into a high-class international sire, has died at the age of 15 after suffering a suspected heart attack at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud.

A half sister to Aug. 7 Whitney Stakes (G1) winner Knicks Go from the first crop of undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify and a colt by Empire Maker have been supplemented to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and are set to sell Sept. 13-14. 

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps weekend grade 1 racing at Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course.

Trainer Tom Amoss finds a different scenario facing Sermononthemount in running Emil Cerullo’s 3-year-old colt in the $200,000 RUNHAPPY Ellis Park Derby Aug. 15 than what awaited him in last month’s Indiana Derby (G3) at Indiana Grand. 

Michael Dubb and Michael Caruso’s Doctor Jeff, an eye-catching debut winner at Belmont Park, tackles a full field of 12 in the Aug. 14 Saratoga Special Stakes Presented by Miller Lite (G2).

Jockeys and Jeans, which has raised more than $1.6 million for former jockeys supported by PDJF, names Brian Elmore, the executive director of the Indiana Horsemen’s Protective and Benevolent Association, its 2021 Man of the Year.