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Multiple graded stakes winner Drafted is named the 2025 Bill Kraatz Thoroughbred Makeover Ambassador Award winner.

The catalog for the Inglis Digital USA October (Early) Sale is now online, with 64 horses on offer appealing to all sections of the market. Among the standouts in the catalog is grade 2 winner Damon's Mound, offered as a racing or stallion prospect.

The Bond: Two Hearts-One Spirit honor's the young racehorse fan Cody Dorman and his namesake and champion Cody's Wish. The statue will be dedicated Oct. 11 at the Kentucky Horse Park.

This year's 2-year-old program has marched on without bringing the horses with it. The division is still forming ahead of the Middle Park (G1) Sept. 27, which has as strong a claim as any to be the last real leading 2-year-old race of the campaign.

The Sept. 27 Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) at Newmarket is by no means a straight head-to-head, with four fillies holding major claims, but it could be decided by the outcome of the rematch between Lowther (G2) 1-2 Royal Fixation and America Queen.

A reimagined Saddling Paddock with centralized saddling stalls and a ceremonial Stakes Winner's Circle, along with the new Show Bet Bonus for on-track patrons, are among the highlights of Keeneland's 17-day Fall Meet from Oct. 3-25.

This week's radio and television schedule, compiled by America's Best Racing.

Straight No Chaser is back for a repeat bid Sunday in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park, and he's already secured a berth to this year's Sprint Nov. 1 via a win earlier this year in Saudi Arabia.

Lucky Sweynesse looks to become the third Hong Kong-based horse to win the Sprinters Stakes (G1), one of only two grade 1 sprints on the Japanese racing schedule.

The horse racing industry will gain access to advanced machine vision technology through a new partnership between Equius AI and global surveillance provider IREX AI, the companies announced today.

Due to technical difficulties beyond Remington Park's control, The Sept. 25 nine-race card was canceled.

Express Train is ready to defy Father Time again Sept. 27 for the C R K Stable of Lee and Susan Searing in the Goodwood Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park.