Blood-Horse

Multiple graded stakes winner sold for seven-figures three times at auction. She produced three winners but never reproduced a runner as brilliant as her.

Dozens of factors can go into winning a major horse race. Yet Bob Baffert said there's one vital principle behind his amazing run of seven victories in the Preakness Stakes (G1) since 1997. Quite simply, he arrives in Baltimore with the best horse.

Joel Politi's Serengeti Empress has demonstrated flashes of brilliance in her brief career, winning five of eight starts, including the May 3 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) last time out at Churchill Downs.

With two horses equaling the fastest quarter-mile time of :21 3/5 and four working in the co-fastest eighth-mile time of :10, the under tack show workouts for next week's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale drew to a close May 16.

The Empire Racing Club today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Spendthrift Farm to campaign a filly bred by the Lexington nursery this year.

While the Breeders' Cup may have ownership of the "Win and You're In" tagline, the concept of having automatic qualifying races for a major race has also struck a chord with the Maryland Jockey Club and The Stronach Group.

Britain has needed a serious challenger to Aidan O'Brien's Investec Derby (G1) battalion. That horse might well have been found at York May 16, but the Derby in which Telecaster seeks to thwart Ballydoyle might yet be at the Curragh, not Epsom.

With the future of Pimlico Race Course and the Preakness Stakes (G1) in Baltimore in doubt beyond next year, the racing community gathered in the clubhouse dining room May 16 to share in the tradition of the old track's Alibi Breakfast.

The Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation (TERF) announces a newly conceived gift of 5% of Lael Stables' winnings for 2019.

Maximum Security, whose popularity has soared since he was disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby, will make a public appearance for racing fans May 18 at Monmouth Park when he schools in the paddock.

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club has announced it will serve as the host for the inaugural American Youth Racing Experience this summer, a unique opportunity for young men and women to get up close and personal in the Thoroughbred industry.

For the second consecutive year, Fasig-Tipton, North America's oldest Thoroughbred auction house, will be the title sponsor of the Preakness Stakes Winners' Party Saturday, May 18 following the 144th Preakness Stakes (G1). 

Charles Fipke's grade I-winning homebred Seeking the Soul remains on track for the $600,000 Stephen Foster presented by GE Appliances (GI) on Saturday, June 15 following an easy half-mile move in :49.60 Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs.

The six-furlong Chick Lang Stakes (G3) and Maryland Sprint Stakes (G3) should kick up some dust on the Preakness Stakes (G1) undercard May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Last year's Canadian champion 2-year-old filly Bold Script, who is being considered for this year's Queen's Plate Stakes against males, will try for her first graded stakes win in the $125,000 Selene Stakes May 18 at Woodbine.

With all but two of the Preakness Stakes (G1) starters on the grounds at Pimlico May 16, most horses made their way to the main track to stretch their legs.

In his first start since finishing third as the favorite in the Sunland Derby (G3), Michael Petersen's Mucho Gusto will return to sprinting in the $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Stakes (G3) May 18 at Santa Anita Park.

A year ago Vettori Kin (BRZ) gave trainer Ken McPeek his fifth victory in the Louisville Handicap (G3T).

After winning a pair of off-the-turf races in her past two starts, e Five Racing Thoroughbreds' Seek and Destroy will make her graded stakes debut in the Soaring Softly Stakes (G3T) May 18 on the Widener Course at Belmont Park.

Maximum Security, whose popularity has soared since he was disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby, will make a public appearance for racing fans May 18 at Monmouth Park when he schools in the paddock.