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The Jockey Club reported Oct. 5 that 1,552 stallions covered 31,198 mares in North America during 2019, according to statistics compiled through Sept. 29, 2020. 
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The Texas Racing Commission approved a schedule for 2021 race dates in which Sam Houston Race Park and Lone Star Park will be the only tracks to run Thoroughbred meets in the state. Retama Park will run exclusively Quarter Horses next year.
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The next symposium will be held Dec. 6-8, 2021, at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz.
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In a press briefing held Tuesday, The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia (JCSA) announced that the 2021 running of the $20-million Saudi Cup will be held Feb. 20, one week earlier than the date for the inaugural edition of the world’s richest race. The announcement was made by HRH Prince Bandar Bin Khalid Al Faisal,
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Trainer Kenny McPeek has assigned a new jockey to Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) runner-up Swiss Skydiver for the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course. Robby Albarado will have the call on Peter Callahan's Daredevil filly.
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After winning the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) from the outside post, Authentic's bid for a victory in the final jewel of the Triple Crown will also begin toward the outside.
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Longtime Delaware Park steward Fritz Burkhardt passed away in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 22. He was 85.
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The final stop on the West Coast road to the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 7 at Keeneland is the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (G1) Sept. 26 at Santa Anita Park, a race headed by stablemates Maximum Security and Improbable.
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Even as the economy and other sports have re-opened, the racing industry has been given an opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic of which to take advantage, a panel of the University of Louisville Equine Program Speaker Series discussed Sept. 22.
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After walking Swiss Skydiver a few turns in the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course on the morning of Oct. 4, trainer Ken McPeek was still trying to wrap his mind around the 3-year-old filly's sensational triumph in the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes (G1)
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Swiss Skydiver ran the second-fastest Preakness ever and became the sixth filly to win the race after a stirring stretch duel with Authentic.
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The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's Rules Committee passed a motion Sept. 29 that will modify the riding crop regulation it passed in June to emphasize suspensions for jockeys committing offenses rather than monetary penalties.
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After a $20 million purse subsidy that was used to bolster purses at New Jersey’s Thoroughbred and Standardbred tracks was left out of an initial budget proposal from Governor Phil Murphy, lawmakers have approval a final budget that will include a $15 million subsidy for the 2021 racing season. The money will be divided evenly
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By a unanimous Sep. 29 voice vote, the United States House of Representatives passed a years-in-the-making bill that, if eventually signed into law, will develop and implement anti-doping, medication control, drug testing, and racetrack safety standard programs enforced by an independent authority whose powers would supersede the long-standing state-by-state regulation of the sport. HR 1754,
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It was business as usual for Bob Baffert Sept. 27 after he savored the previous day's victories at Santa Anita Park by Improbable in the Awesome Again Stakes (G1) and the undefeated juvenile filly Princess Noor in the Chandelier Stakes (G2).
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Gimpanzee and Atlanta demonstrate how each refuses to lose in an impressive stretch drive at Harrah's Hoosier Park on Friday (Sept. 25) in the $150,000 Caesars Trotting Classic.
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The Breeders' Cup today announced post times for the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships, consisting of 14 Championship races and eight undercard races with total purses and awards of more than $31 million, which will be held on Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. The official race order and wagering menu for both days […]
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Godolphin’s undefeated homebred Maxfield, back after rehabbing from a condylar fracture, has returned to trainer Brendan Walsh’s barn at Churchill Downs.
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