In its 2025 annual metrics report released March 24, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority noted a slight increase in equine fatality rates for racing and workouts at tracks it oversees while noting a strong two-year record.
From the Dubai World Cup card to Florida Derby card, a busy television and radio schedule awaits March 28. Read this week's radio and television schedule as produced by America's Best Racing.
Having won her only two starts, including the Davona Dale Stakes (G2) by 6 lengths last month at Gulfstream Park for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, She Be Smooth is favored to win the March 28 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2).
The catalog for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses in Training Sale is now available online, with a total of 201 breeze-up 2-year-olds and 151 horses in training set to come under the hammer.
Don Butte oversaw Fasig-Tipton's accounting and financial operations for 40 years. The native of Kentucky, had retired in 2021 and relocated to Southwest Florida to be near the beaches he loved.
Grade 3 winner Rashmi is set to return from a year-long layoff March 28 at Santa Anita Park, jumping right back into graded company to contest the $100,000 Wilshire Stakes (G3T).
The rate of fatal injury in Thoroughbred racing in 2025 was 1.07 per 1,000 starts, which is the lowest rate since the Equine Injury Database began in 2009. The rate of fatal injury decreased 3.6% from 2024 and is down 47% since 2009.