Churchill Downs Incorporated announced May 6 that Katherine Armstrong has been hired as Vice President of Culture (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). The new role will report directly to Bill Carstanjen, CEO of CDI. 

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Utilizing Equineline report 42P, Byron King examines the pedigrees of Nay Lady Nay, Gufo, and Wolfie’s Dynaghost—three stakes performers on a banner stakes card at Belmont Park May 8. 

The Kentucky Derby (G1) winner began his early preparation for the May 15 Preakness Stakes (G1), training May 5-6 at Churchill Downs. Medina Spirit and his stablemate Concert Tour will van to Pimlico Race Course May 10.

The BloodHorse today announced the retirement of Evan Hammonds, editorial director, effective Monday, May 17, 2021. He will continue with BloodHorse part-time.

Japanese participation in the Triple Crown, absent last year with the onset of COVID-19, appears set to return in the May 15 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course.

Orientor, the mightily popular sprinter from the start of this century who produced some fast horses himself as a stallion, has died at age 23 at Sidehouse Farm Stud in Scotland.

John Gosden is among the members of a newly formed steering group that is set to play a pivotal role in the British Horseracing Authority’s forthcoming consultation on the use of the whip in British racing.

The New York Racing Association is “tremendously optimistic” about the upcoming Saratoga Race Course summer meet after New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the state will dramatically increase COVID-19-era attendance capacity limits.

Mr. Amore Stable’s Firenze Fire is set to make his 6-year-old debut May 8 in the $150,000 Runhappy Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park, where four others were also entered in the six-furlong sprint for older horses.