Owner Ken Ramsey says alleged total owed trainer Mike Maker in delinquent training fees includes $96,586 in “unauthorized interest.”

While trainer Todd Pletcher prepares his acceptance speech for his Aug. 6 induction into Racing’s Hall of Fame, the sport’s all-time leader in earnings also has his hands full getting his star-studded stable ready for important graded stakes dates.

Jockey Rafael Bejarano, suspended July 18 by the Kentucky stewards after the rider was ejected from Ellis Park July 11, has been “restored to good standing” after the track lifted its ejection July 28, according to a July 29 ruling.

The curtain looks set to come down on one of the modern era’s finest sprinting careers after Battaash, the best flat gelding ever trained in Britain, disappointed at Goodwood for the first time in his life.

The Aug. 21 Pacific Classic (G1), Del Mar’s centerpiece race, has been restored to its original purse level of $1 million. Additionally, the track’s conclusion to its 3-year-old grass series—the Sept. 4 Del Mar Derby (G2T)—will climb to $250,000.

Lorena and Jilli Marie will put their respective unbeaten records on the line Aug. 1 in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser.

Suesa showed what she is made of in the King George Qatar Stakes (G2), the feature race on the July 30 Glorious Goodwood card and one Battaash could not even play the role of bridesmaid in.

Preakness Stakes (G1) winner and Eclipse Award winner Bernardini has been euthanized at Jonabell Farm due to complications from laminitis, Darley America announced July 30.

Acacia Courtney and Andy Serling look ahead at exciting graded-stakes action from Saratoga this weekend.

The American Veterinary Medical Association named Dr. Stuart Brown, vice president of equine safety at Keeneland, as the winner of the 2021 AVMA Meritorious Service Award.