Blood-Horse

Trainer Wesley Ward went to $2.2 million for a Gun Runner colt and full brother to 2022 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Early Voting during the Sept. 9 second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The colt was bred by Three Chimneys Farm.

A rundown compiled by America's Best Racing of this week’s TV, streaming, and radio horse racing coverage.

A $1.7 million colt (Hip 211) consigned by Taylor Made Sales tops two seven-figure yearlings by leading sire Not This Time that sold within the first 20 hips offered during the Sept. 9 second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

After a post-race finding for a controlled substance, the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has suspended Southern California-based trainer George Papaprodromou and disqualified filly Sneaker from a May stakes win at Santa Anita Park.

Porter on Pedigrees

The Iroquois Stakes (G3) awards qualifying points to the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1).

The leading 10 horses are unchanged in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll following a week of stakes action in which none of the top-ranked horses raced.

The List: An Update and Review of the Top 25 General Sires List Rankings

Fastnet Rock, one of Australia's most influential stallions, has died at the age of 24. Coolmore Australia, where the son of Danehill was born, raised and later stood as a successful stallion, announced the news the morning of Sept. 8. 

The official Road to the Kentucky Derby will begin Sept. 13 at the home of America's greatest race as Churchill Downs stages the 44th running of the $300,000 Iroquois Stakes (G3) for 2-year-olds at one mile.

The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club celebrated the conclusion of its 86th summer racing season Sept. 7, reporting substantial increases in wagering—both total and average daily—as well as field size over the 2024 summer meeting.

Coolmore's M.V. Magnier, Peter Brant, and Winchell Thoroughbreds teamed up to land the colt with a black-type-drenched pedigree. The colt crowned the first session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale that produced 15 seven-figure sales.

A filly (Hip 144) by leading sire Not This Time became the top-selling filly during the Sept. 8 opening day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, selling for $2 million to Cindy Heider. The filly was bred and sold by Hinkle Farms.

Some Arizona-breds will be allowed to race in restricted races in New Mexico.

On the Sept. 8 episode of BloodHorse Monday: Affirmed's jockey Steve Cauthen is the breeder of grade 2 winner Bear River, the Keeneland September Yearling Sale begins, Horseshoe Indianapolis prepares for stakes races on Sept. 10 card.

A colt by Not This Time was knocked down for $1.6 million a little less than two hours into the first session of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 8.

Owner Naohiro Sakaguchi from Japan went to $1.7 million for a Flightline colt (Hip 45), and then went to $1.5 million (Hip 168) for a filly by the 2022 Horse of the Year later in the session.

The fourth of a five-week series recognizing Woodbine's most iconic stakes races, the latest "Woodbine Week" shines the spotlight on the Woodbine Mile (G1T), Natalma (G1T), and Summer (G1T) stakes which are among five graded stakes Sept. 13.

Half brother to turf star and dual Breeders' Cup winner Golden Pal is the first horse to bring seven figures during the Sept. 8 opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Atlantic Six Racing received an offer for Book'em Danno last season when he was a 3-year-old, a proposition so substantial it led each partner to take a deep breath and assess priorities.