Hat Creek Racing's Chelsea Cloisters took all the money for her debut in Thursday's opener at Keeneland and ran to it with a powerful victory to become the second 'TDN Rising Star' of the day. Showing several sharp drills, including a local half-mile gate spin in :48 flat (5/86) Apr. 6, the $125,000 Fasig-Tipton July [...]

The pride of New Mexico, GIII Sunland Derby winner Runaway Ghost (Ghostzapper), suffered a hairline fracture to his shin in a workout Saturday and will miss his intended start in the GI Kentucky Derby, Joe Peacock, Jr., son of the colt's owner, confirmed to TDN Sunday. The Todd Fincher trainee will not require surgery and [...]

2nd-AQU, $70k, Msw, 3yo/up, 1 1/8mT, 1:31 p.m. EDT Whisper Hill Farm's 2015 Keeneland September sales-topper TAPIT HIGH (Tapit) makes his belated debut in this nine-furlong turf test. Purchased for $2.1 milion, the gray's second dam is 1988 GI Kentucky Derby heroine Winning Colors (Caro {Ire}). He shows a steady worktab for trainer John Kimmel [...]

Keeneland found itself under fire last year after raising takeout rates for its Fall meet. The company listened to its customers, however, and reversed some of the increases this February. With the track's always-anticipated Spring Meet set to kick off Friday, TDN Associate Editor Joe Bianca talked to Keeneland Vice President of Racing and Sales [...]

Sol Kumin's Head of Plains Partners is now part-owner of GI Kentucky Derby contenders Audible (Into Mischief) and Justify (Scat Daddy), Kumin confirmed Wednesday. In a story originally reported by Daily Racing Form, he joins regular partners WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and SF Racing on both horses. Kumin also has a stake in Derby [...]

When the racing world last saw Zayat Stables' Solomini (Curlin), he was the subject of a good deal of controversy. Crossing the wire first in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity Dec. 9, the $270,000 Keeneland September graduate was disqualified to third after a lengthy inquiry, prompting backlash led by the colt's owners themselves. One week [...]

The Santa Anita racing office was likely anticipating a short field, maybe five or six horses, for Saturday's GI Santa Margarita S. No one could have been eager to run against champion and 'TDN Rising Star' Unique Bella (Tapit) fresh off of easily the fastest race of her career thus far. But when the she [...]

Don Alberto Stable's Champion and 'TDN Rising Star' Unique Bella (Tapit) will not make an expected start in the GI Santa Margarita S. this Saturday at Santa Anita after coming down with a cough and missing some training last week. The story was first reported by Daily Racing Form. “She just had a little cough [...]

3rd-GP, $55K, Msw, 4yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:35 p.m. ET Whisper Hill Farm's TIZATUDE (Street Cry {Ire}) makes her belated debut in this Thursday sprint. The bay filly, who hammered for $1.05 million at the 2015 Keeneland September sale, is a half to GISW millionaire and sophomore sire Paynter (Awesome Again) from the second-to-last crop of [...]

Tom Morley had waited a while to use the name. The British-born trainer, expanding his footprint in racing every year, laid eyes on a handsome colt by Flat Out at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale and ended up as the winning bidder in conjunction with Boomer Bloodstock for $150,000. Since then, that purchase has [...]

During the rare months of the year when New York racing takes a back seat to other circuits, it's hard for any news from the frozen tundra of Aqueduct to break through into the sport's mainstream awareness. Dylan Davis made that dent Sunday however, after tying a New York Racing Association record by piloting home [...]

The Godolphin and Darley names have been synonymous with top-class turf talent overseas for decades now, but in America, they adjusted to the market and have mostly made their bones by breeding and racing dirt horses. Every now and then, however, their rich history of buying and breeding turf mares manifests itself Stateside, with the [...]