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🚨 Thistledown Track Super Claims He Was Fired for Reporting Safety Concerns to Stewards/HISA “When I reported what I saw on that racetrack, that's my professional obligation…These horses mean something to me. That's what I'm here for.” @thorntontd ✍️ thoroughbreddailynews.com/thistledown-tr…
🚨 Weekly National Regulatory Rulings: July 17-23. thoroughbreddailynews.com/national-regul…
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The third time was the charm for HISTORIC HEART (Fracas) in Wednesday's GI A. P. Smithwick Memorial Handicap as he rallied home to win it by a nose over Proven Innocent at Saratoga Race Course. Owned by Atlantic Friends Racing and trained by Keri Brion, the 8-year-old gelding…


📣 Central Kentucky-based @McMahonandHill Bloodstock has promoted Kristin Stivers to Controller and hired Mary Motion as Director of Business Development. thoroughbreddailynews.com/stivers-promot…
The stats say it all! 👀 TDN’s Second Chances series, written by @SteveSherackTDN. Always worth a read ⬇️
Since launching 'Second Chances' in 2017, 64 maidens have been featured (through 2024), producing 25% graded stakes winners, 34% stakes winners and 48% stakes horses.
Donate now! 🎉 It’s the @BreedersCup Charities’ Annual Day of Giving: July 23. Support the people and programs who are dedicated to making Thoroughbred racing run. 👉 BREEDERSCUP.COM/GIVING

🗣️ "My horse has to run his best race, and I think Baeza has a better race in him." Saratoga Notebook, presented by @NYRABets: @tjwilkin checks in with John Shirreffs on Baeza, Phil Bauer on Halina's Forte, and Rob Atras on Train the Trainer. thoroughbreddailynews.com/saratoga-noteb…
✨ Mo Plex (Complexity) is the lone New York-bred in the compact yet competitive five horse-field set for Saturday's GII Jim Dandy S. at Saratoga. Though it will be the colt's biggest test yet, his connections are confident that the multiple graded stakes winner is up for the…




⬆️ The first day of the @Tattersalls_ie July Store Sale was topped by an Order Of St George gelding at €55,000. Sold by Liss House to Gaynestown, lot 32 is from the same family as Grade 2-placed hurdler Carriganog (Shantou). thoroughbreddailynews.com/order-of-st-ge…
🗣️ "Importantly, she galloped out ahead of all the other horses in the race." Second Chances: @SteveSherackTDN checks in with John Amerman on homebred 2yo filly Counterbalance (Caravaggio) who flashed home to finish fourth at 37-1 on debut at Del Mar. thoroughbreddailynews.com/second-chances…
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Extra! Extra! 🗞️ Congratulations to the connections of Journalism, the only horse to win three Grade Is in North America this year! Don’t miss his half-sister, by Into Mischief, selling with @DenaliStud as Hip 165 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. fasigtipton.com/catalogs/2025/…

🎉 Kids Day, presented in conjunction with @TheNYRA Students of Thoroughbreds and Racing (NYRA STAR), will take place at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, July 27. Children and families will get a special behind-the-scenes look at life on the track. thoroughbreddailynews.com/saratoga-race-…
✍️ TDN Europe's Black-Type Analysis for Thursday at Leopardstown, Sandown, and Compiegne; Friday at Ascot. Composing could easily be Aidan O'Brien's 15th Silver Flash winner after her success in a Curragh maiden that is working out well. thoroughbreddailynews.com/black-type-ana…
Where will Journalism run next? "As of right now, I think everything needs to be on the table. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Jim Dandy this weekend." Listen to @mwmracing on the TDN Writers' Room ✍️
🗣️ "People call him a throwback. He's a horse that carries a lot of condition. He's a very smart horse and takes good care of himself." Trainer @mwmracing joins this week's TDN Writers' Room podcast to talk all things GI Haskell S. winner Journalism. thoroughbreddailynews.com/michael-mccart…
🗣️ "People call him a throwback. He's a horse that carries a lot of condition. He's a very smart horse and takes good care of himself." Trainer @mwmracing joins this week's TDN Writers' Room podcast to talk all things GI Haskell S. winner Journalism. thoroughbreddailynews.com/michael-mccart…
🔎 Thursday's Observations features MONTREAL (Sea The Stars), a half-brother to the G2 Blandford Stakes winner and Irish Oaks runner-up Cayenne Pepper. 5.25 Leopardstown thoroughbreddailynews.com/cayenne-pepper…
👉 Collier Mathes's Chesapeake Farm has added Finn Green to consult and handle client relations and business development. Chesapeake Farm operates on 2,000+ acres of leased land from Overbrook Farm and Wimbledon Farm in Lexington. thoroughbreddailynews.com/chesapeake-far…
Let’s go digital! 💻 Enter the @FasigTiptonCo December Digital Sale now: digital.fasigtipton.com/sales/sale/45/…
