It’s payday for many horse breeders in the commonwealth as the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission awards $14.3 million to qualified breeders through the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Incentive Fund.

The top three finishers from the Risen Star Stakes (G2) and Rachel Alexandra Stakes (G2) Feb. 13 at Fair Grounds Race Course are likely to renew acquaintances on the March 20 card at the New Orleans track, according to their respective connections.

The Dublin Racing Festival was an amalgamation of races already in the Irish jumping calendar, but there can be no doubt its creation has magnified their importance, both on the racing and breeding front.

If ever a groundbreaking horse racing event has sprouted and blossomed “against all odds,” it would be the Saudi Cup program, to be staged for the second time Feb. 19-20 at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh.

Team USA and EquiLottery Games have entered into an agreement for the development and deployment of Team USA state lottery games based on the results of Olympic Games competition.

The global pandemic stranded the son of War Front in Peru during 2020. He now is standing at Anchor & Hope Farm in Maryland for $2,500.

The Retired Racehorse Project welcomes today 484 accepted applications, representing 480 unique trainers and teams, to the 2021 class of the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America.

Chester has a “bulletproof” plan to host up to 5,000 racegoers on each day of the popular May meeting, confident officials revealed a week before prime minister Boris Johnson is expected to outline his roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions.

Drain the Clock breezed a half-mile Feb. 14 at Gulfstream Park in preparation for a possible start in the Feb. 27 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2).

A significant chapter in British breeding’s history has drawn to a close with Cheveley Park Stud announcing that the brilliant Pivotal has been retired from covering duty at the age of 28.