On a weekend of huge upsets, the GIII Rood & Riddle Dowager Stakes proved no different as 14-1 longshot Malibu Smart (English Channel) emerged from the late scramble to win the turf marathon feature Sunday afternoon at Keeneland. The fillies and mares broke in a line with Pretty Tapit (Tapit) and Modarosa (Palace Malice) going

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Last week, The Jockey Club released its annual Report of Mares Bred (RMBs), which is used to estimate the following year's foal crop. And, once again, the numbers were not good. The estimate for the foal crop of 2027 is 16,500, a decrease of 500 from the year before. While 500 fewer foals may not

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'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Movie Night (Speightstown) has emerged from her GII Lexus Raven Run triumph in good form, and has left her connections with some thinking to do as to how they want to approach the coming months with their budding star. Collecting her first graded win on the day her trainer,

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Japanese Horse of the Year Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) posted a half-mile breeze Sunday morning at Belmont Park in his final New York move before shipping down to Keeneland for the World Championships. The international globetrotting star was clocked in :49.65 (50/59) with assistant trainer, and regular exercise rider, Yuki Araki in the

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Sovereignty (Into Mischief) worked five furlongs in 1:02.76 Sunday over the Saratoga training track in what was his penultimate workout before the Oct. 31 GI Breeders Cup Classic. “Visually, it looked fine to me,” trainer Bill Mott said. “He looked good. I didn't have a watch, but I thought that everything looked good. We put

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