A 15-year record was smashed three times during the opening Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale session March 9, with a high-profile Fastnet Rock colt making AU$525,000 (US$402,797) and setting the tone for a stellar day’s trade.

Essential Quality, Life Is Good, and Greatest Honour are the top three in this week’s edition of the Derby Dozen, Presented by Spendthrift Farm.

Owner/trainer Karl Broberg said he feels “wronged” by the Louisiana State University equine testing laboratory after he said split-sample testing cleared one of his horses of three medication positives that that had been called by that lab.

Qatar Racing and Watership Down Stud’s Darain, the most expensive yearling to be sold anywhere in the world in 2018, registered his first win in the US last weekend since leaving John Gosden for Brad Cox.

While champion Essential Quality is well on his way to carrying the banner for owner/breeder Godolphin in the 2021 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), the powerhouse racing outfit could add one more runner to the fray.

Churchill Downs will present 40 stakes races cumulatively worth a record $13.44 million during its 38-day Spring Meet that runs April 24-June 26, led by the May 1 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1).

The International Forum for the Aftercare of Racehorses announced today its lineup of topics and speakers for its fifth conference, which will be held as a series of four virtual sessions on 6, 13, 20, and 27 of April.

On March 9, one year will have passed since one of the darkest days in the long history of Thoroughbred racing rocked the sport to its core.

Anti-racing protestors shouldn’t have access to our tracks,

A new opinion poll has revealed that 51% of people in Britain are opposed to being told by politicians how much they can spend on gambling.