Through 2016, the Firestones campaigned 51 graded/group stakes winners, which included 17 grade/group 1 winners and five champions.

BetMakers Technology Group, in partnership with Monmouth Park, will sponsor the $1 million “BetMakers Bonanza” bonus for the second straight year for the connections of any horse that wins a series of three races starting with the Haskell.

The 2021 fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack will include 26 total stakes, including 10 graded contests, across 18 days of racing from Nov. 5-Dec. 5, the New York Racing Association announced July 12.

The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) has awarded Accredited status to seven additional farms of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.

Matt Shifman, senior writer and assistant editor at Horse Racing Nation, has been named the winner of the 2021 Bill Handleman Award for outstanding coverage of last year’s TVG.Com Haskell Stakes, Monmouth Park announced today.

St. George Stable’s 5-year-old mare Letruska has retained the No. 1 position in the latest NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll following a quiet week in which none of the top rated horses were in action.

Goffs has announced the appointment of Michael Hardy as head of sales in the bloodstock department, with the former Irish National Stud graduate starting his position July 12.

Cheveley Park Stud’s first-season sire Ulysses became the latest stallion to be represented by his first winner when the appropriately Niarchos family-owned and-bred Piz Badile struck at Killarney Racecourse for trainer Donnacha O’Brien July 12.

Florida stallion and graded stakes winner Fury Kapcori died at age 11 last month due to complications from colic, Journeyman Stallions’ Brent Fernung said July 12. 

Jeweled Princess topped the inaugural July Breeding Stock Sale July 12 at Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks near Lexington. Gross receipts for the sale totaled $2,012,000, with 44 horses sold for an average of $45,727 and a $31,000 median.