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Ted Noffey, the 2025 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner who is expected to be honored next week as the Eclipse Award-winning champion 2-year-old male of 2025, is back on the work tab for the first time as a 3-year-old.View the full article

A field of 11, led by Gun Runner S. winner Chip Honcho (Connect), will line up in Saturday's GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds, good for 20-10-6-4-2 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Gun Runner was Chip Honcho's first try around two turns and third career start for Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen. The Leland Ackerley Racing colorbearer is drawn widest of all in post 11. The re-opposing Ohio-bred Crown the Buckeye (Yaupon), favored at 4-1 on the Lecomte morning-line, set the pace and tired late to finish third that day. Trainer Brad Cox will saddle a trio, including Calumet Farm homebred Thunder Buck (Gun Runner), a popular maiden winner at second asking over track and trip Dec. 20. “Based off pedigree and what he's shown us so far, the further the better for him,” Cox said. “I thought he had a good gallop out in his first run as well there (finishing fourth) at Keeneland (Oct. 16). The further they go, the better he's gonna get.” The rail-drawn Quality Mischief (Into Mischief), fourth at 25-1 in the Gun Runner; and White Tiger (Constitution), a maiden winner at second asking at Churchill Downs last time Oct. 26; round out the Cox trio. Golden Tempo (Curlin) heads right into the deep end for trainer Cherie DeVaux following a visually impressive last-to-first debut victory going six furlongs at Fair Grounds Dec. 20, good for 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' honors. The stacked 13-race Lecomte program also features the GIII Louisiana S., topped by 8-5 morning-line favorite Just a Touch (Justify); and the Fasig-Tipton Silverbulletday S. for 3-year-old fillies. The post Gun Runner Winner Chip Honcho Headlines Wide-Open Lecomte appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

needing a good sale...   Lot 459 Proisir x Gracehill filly “I can't not mention the half-sister to Crocetti. I’m lucky enough to be vending her on behalf of Daniel Nakhle. It's a family that Daniel has developed very well through the likes of Irish Colleen, Crosshaven, Killarney, and Crocetti, who has won a Railway (Gr.1, 1200m) and 2000 Guineas (Gr.1, 1600m). She's a November foal, but you wouldn't think it. I think the guys from the New Zealand Bloodstock team are quite surprised with where she's got to now. She's a lovely filly going forward into the sale, and got that real residual value.”

sigh, no, starting in R3 instead...

WinStar Farm's Heartland, a 'TDN Rising Star' son of Justify out of the Cat Thief mare Sambuca Classica and a half-brother to Classic Empire, sired his first reported foal on Friday, Jan. 16, when a colt out of I Love Nola (Champali) was born at Katierich Farm in Midway, Ky, the farm announced Friday. The colt, whose dam is a half-sister to stakes-placed Love Boot (Storm Boot), the dam of stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Made to Love Her (Steve Wonderboy), and hails from the family of multiple stakes winner True Love's Secret Desert Secret {Ire}), was bred by Rattner Bloodstock LLC. “Nice foal, strong, healthy 136-pound colt,” shared George Barnes of Katierich Farm. “If the rest of our foals look like this, we'll be in good shape.” Martha Rattner added, “He is a leggy colt with good bone and a great hip. He looks very much like Scat Daddy (sire of Justify) and we are thrilled with him. He is sentimental to us because we were the owners of Train Robbery (Cat Thief's dam) in her later years. Our farm is named after her and we are dedicated to taking her pedigree forward. We are thankful for the opportunity WinStar provided us for breeding I Love Nola to Heartland. We are also thankful for Katierich Farm and their excellent care with our broodmares. We have another mare in foal to Heartland that is due in April.” Owned by CHC Inc., Siena Farm, and WinStar Farm, and trained by Bob Baffert, Heartland was a $575,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale graduate. He flashed his brilliance with a head-turning career debut at Del Mar at two to become a 'Rising Star', winning a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight and overcoming trouble at the start to win going away impressively by two lengths from Slider who captured the Speakeasy Stakes and placed in the GIII San Vicente Stakes in subsequent starts. Heartland's final clocking of 1:03.20 was the fastest time of any juvenile at the distance at Del Mar or Saratoga in 2023 and earned a 90 Beyer Speed Figure. Heartland bred 123 mares in his initial book and will stand the 2026 breeding season at WinStar Farm for $10,000 S&N. The post First Foal A Colt For WinStar Farm’s Heartland appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Ted Noffey, the 2025 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner who is expected to be honored next week as the Eclipse Award-winning champion 2-year-old of 2025, is back on the worktab for the first time as a 3-year-old.View the full article

I think you actually find those good on course turnovers at many of the small holiday venues is pushed by tote betting by the non regular race goers, they don't care about fixed odds, probably don't care about horse racing that much either but just enjoying the summer outings that become traditional for many.

BLACK CHERRY (f, 3, Liam's Map–Summer Raven {GSW, $168,910}, by Summer Squall) entered this contest with a bullet work to her name in preparation for her debut, and the betting public liked her to the tune of 7-2 odds as the race came off the turf in favor of the tapeta. Breaking on top to show the way through an opening quarter in :21.77, she was still at the head of affairs as the field swung off the bend for the homeward run. Bracing as challenges arrived on both sides, Black Cherry gamely held on late to win by a neck over a fast-closing Pearl of Pearl (Vino Rosso). Black Cherry is a half-sister to multiple graded winner Lewis Bay (Bernardini), MGSW & MGISP, $1,166,560; Misconnect (Unbridled's Song), GSW, $327,100; and Winslow Homer (Unbridled's Song), GSW, $273,365. Her half-sister Elusive Raven (Elusive Quality) is the dam of GSW Lost Raven (Uncle Mo) and another half-sister went on to be the granddam of SW Our Lady (Bolt d'Oro). A third sibling claims MSP Mojave Desert (Munnings). Black Cherry is Summer Raven's last registered offspring. This is the immediate female family of MGISW Wild Rush (Wild Again). 5th-Gulfstream, $68,000, Msw, 1-16, 3yo, f, 5f (AWT) (off turf), :57.09, ft, neck. BLACK CHERRY (f, 3, Liam's Map–Summer Raven {GSW, $168,910}, by Summer Squall) Sales history: $200,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $40,800. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O-Wathnan Racing; B-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC (KY); T-William I. Mott. *1/2 to Winslow Homer (Unbridled's Song), GSW, $273,365; 1/2 to Misconnect (Unbridled's Song), GSW, $327,100; 1/2 to Lewis Bay (Bernardini), MGSW & MGISP, $1,166,560.   The post Liam’s Map’s Black Cherry Wins the Photo at Gulfstream to Graduate First Out appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this Saturday running at Kyoto Racecourse: Saturday, January 17, 2026 6th-KYO, ¥15,200,000 ($96k), Allowance, 3yo, 1800m BOOM BAP BEAT (c, 3, Into Mischief–Point of Honor, by Curlin), a $1.25-million Keeneland September acquisition for owner Susumu Fujita, has acquitted himself well in his two previous appearances over this course and distance, finishing third Oct. 10 before showing the necessary improvement to graduate by 3 1/2 lengths when last seen Nov. 15. The bay is the first produce from his dam, winner of the GII Black-Eyed Susan Stakes before placing in the GI CCA Oaks and GI Alabama Stakes at three. Point of Honor held top-class form at four, with a quartet of Grade I placings and her now 2-year-old full-brother to this colt made $1.5 million at KEESEP last year. O-Susumu Fujita; B-Alpha Delta Stables LLC (KY); T-Mitsu Nakauchida 10th-KYO, Kobai S.-Listed, ¥40,290,000 ($255k), 3yo, f, 1400mT PRINCESS MOKO (f, 3, Charlatan–Tiger Ride, by Candy Ride {Arg}) opened her account at first asking with a three-length success on the dirt at Kyoto in November and made a favorable impression when switched to the turf for the first time, going down by a neck in a 1400-meter allowance at Chukyo Dec. 13. A $170,000 KEESEP yearling turned $300,000 OBS April breezer, the Feb. 21 foal is out of a mare that won a rained-off renewal of Keeneland's GIII Valley View Stakes and was later second to Forever Unbridled (Unbridled's Song) in the GI Beldame Stakes. Yutaka Take has the riding assignment. O-Mishima B.; B-Dixiana Farms LLC (KY); T-Hideaki Fujiwara The post Pricey Into Mischief Colt Makes Sophomore Bow at Kyoto appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article