Performing his first breeze since finishing third in the March 29 Arkansas Derby (G1), Rebel Stakes (G2) winner Coal Battle recorded a half-mile in :48 2/5 at Churchill Downs April 8. Assistant trainer and exercise rider Bethany Taylor discusses the breeze as the pair exits the track.
The catalog for the 2025 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training is now available online. The four-day sale will take place April 15-18 with each session beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET. Hips 1-302 will sell April 15 with Hips 303-604 going April 16. April 17 will offer Hips 605-906 with the sale…
Using purse levels to determine the assessment fees that support the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority makes sense as a way to help ease the expenses for successful smaller tracks. This current standard, however, will end Jan. 1, 2026, when HISA starts assessing fees based solely on starts. Oddly, what is driving HISA to make…
New York regulators are taking the initial steps to further relax the state’s pari-mutuel coupling rules as part of an effort pushed by Thoroughbred tracks and horsemen and Thoroughbred breeding groups in the state. The New York State Gaming Commission okayed a first step to adopting amendments to the state’s coupling rules for Thoroughbred races…
Veteran jockey Kendrick Carmouche is having a banner year and it is only April. The Louisiana native became the latest jockey to join the 4,000 career-win club when he guided Crimson Light to a half-length win on Saturday at his home track of Aqueduct. The milestone win led the panel of racing experts to unanimously…
Progressive mare Choisya is back in Newmarket after a lucrative winter spell at the Dubai Carnival where she was a flagbearer for the Simon and Ed Crisford team in winning twice at the group 2 level. The 5-year-old had only one black-type success to her name before she joined Gainsborough Stables’ satellite operation at Meydan…
Coolmore goes to $2.7m for the brother to its Group 1-winning son of Snitzel Coolmore and Chris Waller are yet to decide whether Switzerland has run his last race, but they took extreme steps to secure a replacement for the Group 1 winner on Day 1 of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Tom Magnier on Sunday…
