This week's Podcast Playback looks at quotes of interest from racing podcasts Sept. 24-30, including Mark Cornett, racing manager of C2 Racing Stable, discussing Forged Steel's victory in the Goodwood Stakes (G1) Sept. 26 at Santa Anita Park.
Leading California breeder Richard Barton, who bred last year's California-bred champion 2-year-old male and female—Ocean Bear and Mohaven—will offer a group of 59 yearlings at Fasig-Tipton's California Fall Yearlings Sale.
The supplemental catalog for the Ocala Breeders' Sales October Yearling Sale is now available online. A total of 60 horses have been supplemented to the auction taking place Oct. 6-7.
Keeneland's 83rd November Breeding Stock Sale will kick off Nov. 3—three days after the track hosts the Breeders' Cup World Championships for the fourth time—with 3,397 horses cataloged to nine sessions through Nov. 11.
Goffs faced a tall order to match the figures posted by a buoyant Book 1 at last year's Orby Sale but, by the close of trade Sept. 29, there were gains across the range of market indices.
Bret Jones' Libby Lloyd surely lived up to expectations in her career debut. Sent off a 6-5 favorite, she won like a 1-20 shot as she pulled away with ease in the stretch and won by 10 lengths.
As $500,000 grade 1 races for 2-year-olds on dirt, the Champagne Stakes (G1) and Frizette Stakes (G1) command the spotlight Oct. 4 at Belmont Park, but four stakes on grass for juveniles serve as stellar supporting acts.
The Spinaway Stakes (G1) winner will get a chance to see if her excellence extends to racing around two turns at 1 1/16 miles when she battles Forever Carina and six other 2-year-old fillies in the Oct. 2 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.
During a Sept. 29 meeting of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation's Race Dates Committee, it was revealed that Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs are both seeking to run the second week of September.
A host of major breeding operations have rowed in with fundraising efforts to support Kaitlyn Ryan, the 21-year-old amateur jockey who suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury following a freak gallops accident.