Hank Zeitlin, president and chief operating officer of Equibase Company since April 2007, will step down beginning Feb. 29, announced Ian D. Highet, chairman of the Equibase Management Committee and secretary-treasurer of The Jockey Club Friday. Equibase hopes to name a replacement for Zeitlin during the first quarter of 2016. “Over the course of the [...]

Since 2004, Todd Pletcher-trained horses have won approximately 3,000 races and more than $250 million in purses. While saddling more than 200 winners each year during that period, Pletcher has been honored with an Eclipse Award as North America's outstanding trainer seven times. The 48-year-old Texas native has set the tone for each of the [...]

While the vast majority of Hong Kong's best horses will be on display at next weekend's International Races meeting on the turf at Sha Tin, the jurisdiction's top dirt horse, Gun Pit (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}), has made the trip north and east to Japan for Sunday's G1 Champions Cup at Chukyo Racecourse. The 5-year-old gelding, [...]

Toast of New York (Thewayyouare–Claire Soleil, by Syncline), the 2014 $2-million G2 UAE Derby winner who went within a nose of upsetting last year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in Qatar in 2016. Bred in Kentucky by Frank and Jackie Ramos's Ashleigh Stud, Toast of New York [...]

In last Monday's Weekly Sales Ticker (click here)–and with Arqana December, starting today, still to come, we found that 2,492 foals sold at the major mixed sales (Fasig November, Keeneland November, Goffs, Tattersalls) so far this year registered a $6.65-million (5%) gain over last year, and a $22.6-million (18%) increase over corresponding 2013 figures. On [...]

4th-AQU, $60K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:50 p.m. ET Shug McGaughey saddles Phipps homebred BROWSE (Medaglia d'Oro), a half-brother to these connections' recently retired Grade I-winning turfer and millionaire Imagining (Giant's Causeway). She hails from one of the most highly sought-out families in the stud book, responsible for recent Grade I winners Girolamo, Super [...]

Trevor Denman, the popular voice of Santa Anita Park since 1983, will retire from 'The Great Race Place' and will not return for the upcoming 2015-16 race meet that begins Dec. 26, it was announced Friday. He will, however, return for the 2016 summer stand at Del Mar. “After calling the races for 44 years, [...]

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's American Graded Stakes committee released its 2016 list of U.S. Graded and Listed Stakes Friday. Following a review of 788 unrestricted races with purses of $75,000 or more, the committee granted 464 races Graded status–one more than in 2015–and named 173 Listed races. Six already Graded races were upgraded, [...]

5th-LRC, $46,000, Msw, 12-3, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:04.46, ft. SWIFT LADY (f, 2, Awesome of Course–The Church Lady, by Valid Wager), a debut second at Del Mar Sept. 7, was supported as the 5-2 favorite to get it done here. Swift Lady was parked four wide and just off the pace during the opening [...]

Gulfstream Park's 85-day Championship Meet kicks off Saturday in Hallandale with a record $11.61-million stakes schedule highlighted by the Apr. 2 GI Florida Derby. Two-time Eclipse Award winning jockey Javier Castellano enters the meet seeking a record-extending fifth straight riding title at the track. “It would be awesome,” Castellano said of the feat, which Gulfstream [...]

6th-LRC, $45k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f Stonestreet, Magnier, Tabor and Smith's FREEMARK (Smart Strike) is set to make his debut for trainer Bob Baffert at Los Alamitos Race Course in this spot. Bred by Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Warren, Jr., Freemark was purchased for $800,000 at this year's OBS March Sale after breezing a quarter [...]

2nd-GP, $50K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 12:35 p.m. ET Todd Pletcher unveils ZULU (Bernardini) on behalf of the Coolmore contingent and Stonestreet Stables here. The $400,000 Keeneland September yearling blossomed into a $900,000 Fasig-Tipton Florida juvenile after a :10 1/5 breeze. The grandson of MGSW Lemhi Go (Lemhi Gold) is a half to MSW Third Chance [...]