Four runners who finished behind champion Swiss Skydiver in the Beholder Mile (G1) are scheduled to meet each other April 24 in the $200,000 Santa Margarita Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park.

The April 21 session of the OBS Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale only improved with time as stronger prices and even more competitive bidding than what was achieved during Tuesday’s opener rocketed the day’s sales to another level. 

Brutus J. Clay III grew up on Runnymede Farm and is now charged with preserving the storied Thoroughbred operation’s heritage while guiding it into the future.

With its most important weekend of the year approaching, Churchill Downs Inc. has plenty to be optimistic about based on its first quarter financial results reported after trading closed April 21.

The TV schedule is 12 live programs featuring more than 20 automatic qualifying races and other major stakes from six of the nation’s premier racetracks on the road to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Churchill Downs will kick off the spring meet April 24 with a Downs After Dark card featuring the $150,000 William Walker Stakes, a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint for sophomores that attracted an overflow field.

Wanamaker’s has released the catalogue for their April online auction, which will take place on April 29th. Highlights from the catalogue include Trixie Racer, a stakes-winning daughter of Orb offered as a broodmare prospect.

A partnership between two big-hitting players of Australia’s Thoroughbred industry appears to have come to an abrupt end after Aquis Farm principal Tony Fung vowed not to race horses with Phoenix Thoroughbreds.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved April 20 a motion to establish the University of Kentucky Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory as the commission’s new drug testing laboratory.

American Farmland Trust and Horse Country tours will cross-promote their respective commitments to protecting farmland and agritourism.