Jockey Mike Smith has been appointed to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s Racetrack Safety Standing Committee.

The Jockey Club of Great Britain announced Aug. 3 that it is quitting the Racecourse Association over fears the trade body will continue to “stifle” changes it believes are vital to the success of the sport.

Churchill Downs Inc. and NYRA today announced the creation of the “Thoroughbred Championship Series.” The new six-race competition will begin in 2027 and establish a season-long championship for America’s leading 3-year-old Thoroughbreds.

Tickets for Santa Anita Park’s 2026 Autumn Meet will go on sale starting at 11 a.m. PT, Aug. 7. The 19-day Autumn Meet at Santa Anita opens Sept. 25.

Following a dominant debut win at Churchill Downs, Stress Relief again proved much the best when facing winners in the $225,000 Adirondack Stakes (G3) Aug. 2 at Saratoga Race Course, giving trainer Kinnon LaRose his first graded winner.

Coolmore’s burgeoning stallion Home Affairs produced a huge opening season as he conquered all in the first-season sires’ category—and also finished narrowly runner-up in the 2-year-old table.

Flanagan Racing’s Sea Strike dominated the Aug. 2 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, drawing off by 8 1/4 lengths to secure his first career stakes victory in brilliant fashion. Favorite Chief Wallabee was second.

Held at Luminare in South Melbourne, the Aug. 1 Victorian Breeding Awards celebrated the breeders, farms, stallions, broodmares, and industry participants behind another successful and eventful year for Victoria’s Thoroughbred sector.

When the mile fraction in a mile-and-a-half race on firm turf is posted as 1:44.55, it does not bode well for the closers in the field. But frigid fractions in the $250,000 Glens Falls Stakes (G2T) could not stop 2-1 favorite Survie.

Megan Burgess looks back at the G2 Jim Dandy & Saratoga Special at Saratoga.