Latest Updates Around The World
While people will say, “Happy New Year!” On January 1, all thoroughbreds celebrate their birthday. That serves as the final reminder that the spring classics will soon take shape. Horses that were 2 at the start of the week will turn 3 on Thursday and talk of the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1) will continue to […]
Hours before the new year, Santa Anita Park will host the final graduated stakes race of 2025: the $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T) on December 31. (Editor’s note: Racing at Santa Anita Park has been canceled on Wednesday and January 1 due to heavy rain expected in the area.) Trainer Phil D’Amato has two […]
This column highlights the achievements of 2-year-old girls who have made no more than five starts and have either sold for more than $500,000 at public auction, have siblings who are graded/group winners, or have mothers who are graded/group winners. Research by BloodHorse shows that the first winners who meet these criteria in particular have […]
Parx Racing and the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association announce the addition of three Thursday race dates for January 2026: January 8, January 15 and January 22. This is in response to winter weather that resulted in three days of cancellations in December. The added data is the result of a coordinated effort between Parx Racing […]
Yedsit Hazlewood and Brittany Russell ended 2025 in style, capturing the jockey and trainer titles at the Laurel Park autumn meeting. Both Hazlewood and Russell also earned year-end honors as leading jockeys and trainers at the Maryland Jockey Club-operated racetracks. Hazlewood, 17, a leading contender for the 2025 Eclipse Award for outstanding apprentice jockey, walked […]
As Thoroughbred racing enters a new year, it faces the inevitable challenge of learning from the past twelve months and applying those lessons to a new year. With 2026 just around the corner, BloodHorse has repeated its year-end online survey to ask some of the sport’s leading figures for their views on relevant issues facing […]
For years, the thoroughbred industry has debated why racing fields are smaller, inventories thinner and the overall horse population available for racing is smaller. The most common explanations are known: a reduced foal harvest, rising ownership costs, regulatory pressure or the belief that horses are pushed too hard too early. While each of these factors […]
The son of a jockey turned jockey agent, Elijah Arroyo moved quite a bit during his childhood, typical of a family that worked in thoroughbred racing. When the now 26-year-old started working on the track as a teenager, his first job was in the barn of prominent Southern California trainer John Sadler. From there, he […]
Many California owners prefer to keep their horses close to home, where they can watch them race. But Justin Border and Ryan Exline know the odds of being Canadian bred and shipped successfully Gas me up Unpleasant Woodbine for multiple breeds. On December 29, Gas Me Up returned to California as a more mature five-year-old […]
