Horse Racing

Fan-favorite Groupie Doll (Bowman's Band--Deputy Doll, by Silver Deputy), winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint back-to-back in 2012 and 2013 and named champion female sprinter in each of those seasons, has been pensioned from breeding, according to a tweet from Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. "Big News for the Groupie Doll fans!" read a post from Whisper Hill on X. "Groupie Doll has been officially retired from breeding. She will live at the farm in Florida and be pampered like the absolute queen she is for...

Edited Press Release America's Best Racing (ABR), the national content and marketing platform of The Jockey Club, today announced record-breaking results from its 2026 Kentucky Derby campaign. Launched on Mar. 1 and running through Derby Day on May 2, 2026, ABR's campaign generated more than 150 million video views across Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), TikTok and YouTube, nearly double the 76 million views from its already record-setting 2025 campaign. Total engagements surpassed 10.7 million, a 191% year-over-year increase, while overall impressions topped 104 million, up 98% from the prior year....

4th-CD, $120k, Msw, 2yo, 5f, post time: 6:27 p.m. ET CUT THROAT should have his fair share of admirers to get first-crop sire Cyberknife (Gun Runner) off to a flying start with his first runner. A half-brother to the stakes-placed Arman (Bolt d'Oro) and April Vintage (Vino Rosso), the February-foaled chestnut is out of an unraced half-sister to SW & MGSP Two Thirty Five (Stay Thirsty). The deeper female family includes Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly Halfbridled (Unbridled). Cut Throat breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 flat at this...

Easy Pisa (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) became the first horse to carry the orange-and-blue colors of prominent owner Mike Repole in Italy when validating short-odds favoritism in the Premio Walter Dainotto, a 1200-meter event for debutantes at the San Siro in Milan on Sunday, May 10. A 90,000gns ($126,002) purchase by the Repole team from the draft of breeder Roundhill Stud during Book 2 of the 2025 Tattersalls October Sale in Newmarket, England, the Mar. 6 foal is trained by Endo and Christiana Botti and was made the $1.75 (3-4)...

Kentucky-based first-crop stallions Jack Christopher (Munnings) and Highly Motivated (Into Mischief) were represented by their first winners Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, respectively, at Hipodromo de las Americas in Mexico City. Bred in Kentucky by Rhineshire Farm LLC and campaigned by Cuadra Los Agaves, the filly Rhythm of Crown drew outside in a field of six for the Friday opener and made virtually all the running to graduate by a widening 2 3/4 lengths as the 5.35-1 fourth betting choice (video). Juvenile colts were in the spotlight in...

William Joseph ("Doc") Solomon, beloved veterinarian, farm owner and mentor to many, has passed at the age of 84. As founder and owner of Pin Oak Lane Farm, a full-service farm and equine veterinary clinic in York County, Pennsylvania, "Doc" Solomon was responsible for helping to raise a Kentucky Derby winner, Lil. E. Tee, the supposed supporting act who took a curtain call in the 1992 running of the race after favorite Arazi flubbed his lines. Alongside the many talented horses that "Doc" Solomon helped nurture, he inspired many young...

A group of GI Belmont Stakes contenders are beginning to assemble at Saratoga Race Course. Leading the contingent is GI Arkansas Derby-winner and recent GI Kentucky Derby runner-up Renegade (Into Mischief), who arrived upstate for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher on Wednesday. The colt returned to training on Thursday, and again on Friday morning for some light exercise in his first on-track appearances since finishing a neck second to Golden Tempo (Curlin) in the "Run for the Roses" at Churchill Downs last Saturday. Renegade is in Saratoga to prepare...

A new Equine Health Advisory on the risk of fatal injury in Covered Horses previously placed on the Veterinarians' List as Unsound was revealed by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) on Friday. The advisory, which is based on data drawn from the HISA Veterinarians' List, provides practical guidance, including on the use of wearable biometric sensors during training programs to provide additional insight into horses' condition and performance. "Decisions to place a horse on the Veterinarians' List as Unsound are made with the utmost care and expertise by...

The latest installment of the 2026 OwnerView webinar series was held May 5 and featured a discussion of the different facets of owning a Thoroughbred farm, the online event said via a Friday press release. Guests included Nicole Hammond, owner and manager of December Farm; Bill Justice, founder of Justice Real Estate; Mike Levy, founder of Muirfield Insurance; and Gayle Van Leer, equine advisor and bloodstock agent. The event, hosted by The Jockey Club of America and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, was presented by Bessemer Trust, Keeneland and...

There is no truth to the rumor that T O Elvis (Volatile) stepped onto the Churchill Downs main track last Saturday to the Theme from 2001 Space Odyssey, the instrumental to which the horse's namesake took to the stage for wildly popular concerts in the 1970s. But when Elvis--T O, that is--'left the building' following a defeat of no fewer than seven last-out graded winners in a renewal of the GI Churchill Downs Stakes that was widely heralded as one of the best races of the year, there will have...

In the opener at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Thursday afternoon, Tigrado (Nashville--Dancensing, by Tiznow) delivered the first win for freshman sire Nashville (by Speightstown). The 2-year-old colt, who already had a pair of attempts under his belt, was third on debut at Keeneland Apr.3 and finished off the board in an auction restricted maiden at Churchill Downs Apr. 25. Tigrado chased the pace from third up the backstretch. Cutting into the lead around the far turn, the bay opened up down the lane and secured the victory by five lengths in...

1st-SA, $65K, Msw, 3-5yo, 6f, 4:00 p.m. ET. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has an uncoupled entry with 3-year-old Sir Davis (Justify) and 4-year-old Pecos River (McKinzie). The former was a $450,000 Keeneland September grad, while the latter went for $750,000 at the 2024 OBS March sale. Out of MSW Lovely Syn (Freud), Sir Davis is a half-brother to MSW Love in the Air, who was purchased by Japan's Dr. Masatake Iida for $425,000 during the 2023 Keeneland November sale while in foal to Life Is Good. As for...