Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation

The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation will host its annual Fashionable Fillies Luncheon honoring their former Executive Director, the late Nancy Kelly who, over the course of her 32-year career, helped thousands of individuals in need in addition to organizing fundraising events and creating the inaugural Fashionable Fillies Luncheon. The event will be held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at Saratoga National Golf Club Monday, August 5. The theme of this year's luncheon is 'All Things Nancy!'. The event will feature shopping for handbags from Kent Stetson and Lisi Lerch, shoes...

The Breeders' Cup is in the midst of its "40 Days of Giving" program that puts key Thoroughbred industry charities in a collective spotlight with a fundraising twist: This year's initiative involves a money-matching effort in which donors selected by each charity will match up to $1,000 raised by the general public on that charity's designated day. On the final day of the drive, the Breeders' Cup itself will match up to $20,000 in donations, with funds raised on that 40th day to be distributed evenly to all participating charities....

The Horse Racing Women's Summit (HRWS) committee has partnered with the Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation to offer access to digital tickets from the Inaugural Horse Racing Women's Summit for a suggested donation of $25. Those interested in accessing the video links from the inaugural event can purchase a ticket by visiting the Horse Racing Women's Summit EventBrite page. "Finding a way to share the incredible insights that our speakers shared with attendees in September was a goal from the beginning," said committee member Shona Rotondo. "Doing so in a way...

Two weeks ago, the bombshell indictments of trainers Jorge Navarro, Jason Servis, et al., sandwiched between a volatile stock market and the spread of the coronavirus, were the talk of the industry, leading to renewed calls by some for the passage of the Horseracing Integrity Act in Congress. At the time, the doping scandal promised to upend racing's precarious standing, but with hindsight, the plunge of the markets and the rise of the virus may cost the racing and breeding industries greater long-term harm than what's alleged in the indictments....