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Yes. Quite right. Prohibited from driving too, so probably not a good idea for riders.

Retired candidates selected by the nominating committee as finalists may appear on the Hall of Fame ballot a maximum of 10 times. Previously, there was no limit to the number of times a candidate could be a finalist within the 25-year window.View the full article

The official logo for the 158th running of the GI Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets, which will be held at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday June 6, was released by the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) on Tuesday. This year will mark the third and final edition of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga. Beginning in 2027, the Belmont Stakes will return to its permanent home on Long Island at a new Belmont Park. The 2026 Belmont Stakes logo is centered around the Marylou Whitney Entrance at Saratoga, featuring three flags to acknowledge the conclusion of an unprecedented period when Saratoga played host to the Belmont Stakes. The Marylou Whitney Entrance was dedicated by NYRA in 2019 to honor Whitney's legacy and pay tribute to her passionate support for horse racing and commitment to the Saratoga Springs community. The five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will be held from Wednesday, June 3, through Sunday, June 7 at Saratoga Race Course. Tickets for the 2026 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 12 at www.BelmontStakes.com. The post 2026 Belmont Stakes Logo Unveiled appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It can also be prescribed for anxiety and depression.   Any medication ( within reason) should help the sufferer perform within acceptable parameters. As for pain relief,  everyone is different,  of course, but i tried it in various forms, found it utterly useless. 

Nope because my understanding is it comes with a heavy machinery warning.  It is used primarily for chronic pain relief.  If you need to use it for that reason then maybe a change of career from a less risky and less physical job would be the better option.

The 35th edition of the Aug. 22 $1-million GI Pacific Classic tops 37 stakes slated for this summer's 87th season at Del Mar. The “Classic” will headline a card featuring the GI Del Mar Oaks, GII Del Mar Mile and the GII Green Flash Handicap. Del Mar opens its summer season on Friday, July 17, featuring 32 days of racing through Monday, Sept. 7, Labor Day. This year's stakes schedule will offer $7,775,000 in purses, including five overnight stakes each carrying a $100,000 prize. Additionally, there have been two purses magnified on the regular schedule–the Green Flash boosted from $150,000 to $200,000, and the traditional opening day Ceasars Sportsbook Oceanside Handicap increased from $100,000 to $150,000. The seaside track will present six Grade I stakes over the course of its eight weeks of racing. The first of those is the $400,000 Bing Crosby on July 25 and followed by the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch on Aug. 1 In addition to the Pacific Classic and the Del Mar Oaks, the track will offer the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 5 and the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 6. Those last two seven-furlong tests are the championship races for 2-year-olds at the meet. Del Mar track will offer 10 Grade II stakes and five Grade III events during its summer stand. Also, 18 of the added-money races will be conducted on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course and eight of the stakes have been designated for California-bred runners. Other changes of note on the lineup consist of four 2-year-old races lengthened by half a furlong. Both the CTBA Stakes (Aug. 2) and the Graduation Stakes (Aug. 7) will stretch out to 5 1/2 furlongs, while the Generous Portion Stakes (Sept. 4) and the I'm Smokin Stakes (Sept. 7) now go at six panels. Six Del Mar stakes have been designated Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” races: Bing Crosby (Sprint), Clement L. Hirsch (Distaff), Green Flash (Turf Sprint), Pacific Classic (Classic), Del Mar Handicap (Turf) and Pat O'Brien (Dirt Mile). “This stakes schedule showcases the very best of Del Mar racing, highlighted by the $1-Million Pacific Classic and six Grade I events, and offers a wide range of opportunities for our horsemen and horsewomen,” said Del Mar president Josh Rubinstein. “Del Mar's 2026 stakes schedule reflects a continued commitment to quality, competitiveness and opportunity,” said Gary Fenton, chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California. “From the $1-Million Pacific Classic to a deep supporting program, this is the kind of structure that benefits owners, horsemen and the long-term health of California racing.” For the complete stakes schedule, click here. First post daily at Del Mar will be 2 p.m. On closing weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday cards will go off at 1:30 p.m. The post $1-Million Pacific Classic Tops 2026 Del Mar Stakes Schedule appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The four-time Group 1 winner Legarto (Proisir) will be offered as part of the Attunga Stud draft at May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. Trained in New Zealand by Ken and Bev Kelso, Legarto registered her latest top-level success in the Herbie Dyke Stakes at Te Rapa on Saturday, regaining the title she'd previously won in 2024. An 11-time winner from 23 career starts, the now-six-year-old also ran out a determined winner of the Australian Guineas at Flemington back in 2023. Legarto is set to make at least one more appearance on a racecourse before heading to auction, with next month's G1 New Zealand Stakes at Ellerslie confirmed as an intended target, before a potential tilt at the G1 Australian Cup at Flemington later in March. “We've already arranged for her to go to Brian Nutt at Attunga Stud to be prepared for the sale,” said part owner Philip Brown. “Being a partnership, public auction is the proper way to realise her true worth. As a multiple Group 1 winner, including one in Australia, she's obviously a valuable mare, so it's going to be an interesting exercise.” Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch added, “Legarto ranks as one of the finest racemares to have graced the turf in New Zealand in recent seasons. We look forward to enjoying the final conclusion to her racing career before she heads to the Gold Coast where she will be a most sought after breeding prospect for any farm – no matter where they are located around the world.” The post Champion Racemare Legarto to be Offered at Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Looks like the boys must have got on the phone last week. Having watched him throw his weight around all January, it was time to remind Not This Time that he doesn't yet control every neighborhood. The Godfather himself took charge, Into Mischief sending out sons to earn 20 GI Kentucky Derby points on either coast: Plutarch taking the GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes, Renegade the Sam F. Davis Stakes. But he also got together with Not This Time's big rival as young pretender to put a couple of fillies on the Classic trail: Meaning and Search Party, who banked equivalent Oaks points at Santa Anita and Oaklawn respectively, are both by Gun Runner out of Into Mischief mares. But we're actually going to start with Search Party's barnmate, Silent Tactic, whose GIII Southwest Stakes success on the same card represented a double breakout. Besides being the first stakes winner for his sire Tacitus, he's also the first for Gun Runner as damsire. He's apparently only the third starter out of a Gun Runner mare, so we can confidently assume that a 13-year-old stallion who has never missed a beat will be greatly expanding his legacy in this sphere over the years ahead. In the meantime, however, he must share the credit for Silent Tactic not just with Tacitus but with an aristocratic maternal family that has been seeded with due quality. Overall, in fact, this is a pedigree loaded with Classic brands. Certainly Silent Tactic's late surge is consistent with the fact that he not only extends an A.P. Indy sire-line but also owes his granddam Malvinia to the same stallion. Malvinia, placed twice in a light career, is in fact a sister to Malibu Moon–whose posthumous record as a broodmare sire grows ever more impressive, headlined by Gun Runner's son Sierra Leone and, as we'll remind ourselves shortly, the champion dam of Plutarch. Actually it was a Malibu Moon mare, namely GII Mother Goose Stakes runner-up Always Carina, who enabled Gun Runner to add to his laurels last weekend through their seven-figure daughter Always a Runner's “TDN Rising Star” debut at Tampa Bay. That filly duly has strong symmetry with Silent Tactic's dam, Magical Sign, who managed a solitary start for breeder Don Alberto-down the field in a turf maiden-but could not have made a much better start to her second career. Hopefully, then, this branch of a great dynasty is going to keep blooming, Malvinia herself having not really vindicated some elite covers other than with Moraz (Empire Maker), beaten a head for the GIII Santa Ysabel Stakes. On the face of it, her stock appears to have been a little deficient in soundness and that's consistent with a rather fragile brilliance in this corner of the family. We've already noted that Secret Tactic's first two dams stood little racing; Malibu Moon famously made just two starts; another of his sisters, Lady Nichola, was second on her only start; and their dam, Macoumba (Mr. Prospector), won a Group 1 as a juvenile but tapered away quickly at three. But there are never rules about this kind of thing. Macoumba, for instance, had two foals by Danzig: a gelding who won 14 of 84 starts, mostly in claimers; and a filly who never made the gate, but then took on board some Dynaformer toughness and came up with Temple City. Lady Nichola, similarly, produced graded stakes winner Worth Repeating, who raced until he was six, when adding some Giant's Causeway iron. So perhaps the deeper well of quality in this family–Macoumba and her Group 1 winning half-brother Septieme Ciel (Seattle Slew) were out of another elite performer in Maximova (Fr) (Green Dancer)–is best drawn with a sturdy bucket and chain. That augurs well for Tacitus, himself of course a horse of superb pedigree and eligible to put some Tapit grit into play. Silent Tactic's emergence could be just in time to encourage breeders to persevere with Tacitus, now trading at the basement fee of $5,000. While he has mustered no more than 13 winners from 50 starters, nobody could sensibly have expected him to produce precocious stock, and this particular colt's pinhook success ($60,000 to $500,000) suggests a highly progressive trajectory. Tacitus did win at two himself, but only over a mile in November, and it was not until the spring that he really began thriving, en route to third (promoted) in the Derby. In maturity he proved rather frustrating, outclassing his rivals for the GII Suburban Stakes but never quite justifying short odds at Grade I level. But he had amply confirmed the functionality of some of the most happening genes in the breed. For his siblings Syclla (GI Breeders' Cup Distaff) and Batten Down (GIII Ohio Derby) have meanwhile confirmed how their champion dam Close Hatches (First Defence) is replicating a genetic prowess shared by her sister, the GI Kentucky Oaks third Lockdown, whose daughter Idiomatic (Curlin) had preceded Scylla on the Distaff roll of honor a couple of years previously. Moreover this is the famous dynasty of Best in Show, fourth dam of Close Hatches. Tacitus may or may not consolidate from here, but further progress from Silent Tactic himself would make him look a legitimate stud prospect regardless. He has the seamless “stairwell” that you tend to get when a pedigree is held together by well-bred stallions: on top, for instance, the grandsire and damsire of Tacitus are Pulpit and First Defence, both from regal families; and below, of course, we only find stallions eligible to serve such a strong maternal line. Behind second and third dams are established breed-shapers, A.P. Indy and Mr. Prospector; and while he has barely started, in this capacity, someday perhaps being out of a Gun Runner mare will appear the icing on the cake.   Something in the Wind Our community is often accused of insularity but we could represent ourselves as a pretty cultured bunch on a weekend when a son of Tacitus could be joined on the Derby trail by a colt honoring another of the ancient world's most important writers. If Plutarch was named for greatness, then that is wholly consistent with his parentage. For if we might accurately record that both Into Mischief's big winners last weekend are out of Curlin mares, that is clearly too bland a description for either! Renegade is out of Spice Is Nice, a graded stakes scorer who cost seven figures as a yearling as a daughter of Grade I winner Dame Dorothy (Bernardini). And Plutarch, of course, is out of none other than Stellar Wind. She had to settle for fourth in her own Oaks bid but made up for that with six Grade Is and $2.9 million in prizemoney. Joining Coolmore for $6 million, she began with two foals by the ageing Galileo (Ire): an unraced colt, and a disappointing filly culled to St. George Stables for $350,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November Sale. That filly is now going up in the world. Straight after that auction, her half-brother by Justify won a Del Mar maiden by six lengths (albeit unseen since). Then in stepped Into Mischief, albeit with a twist: both Stellar Wind's foals by the champion sire have switched between surfaces and, until now, had only won on turf. But now Plutarch has won a dirt race routinely chosen by his trainer to announce a Derby colt, and has restored black type to a family whose development had been curtailed because Stellar Wind's dam, Evening Star-as mentioned above, a daughter of Malibu Moon-only had two other foals, neither making the gate. Behind her, as many will doubtless recall from Stellar Wind's heyday, was Virginian matriarch Sequins (Northern Fashion). We can hardly reprise the full legacy of the Keswick Farm linchpin here but suffice to say that she is granddam and third dam, respectively, of two previous Bob Lewis winners in Great Hunter (Aptitude) and Mor Spirirt (Eskenderaya). Moreover, she is third dam of Speed King (Volatile), whose name can be found below Silent Tactic in the Southwest roll of honor. For a recent impact by Into Mischief on this family, meanwhile, note that Sequins also features as third dam of Shred the Gnar–a sister to the ill-fated Owendale and so impressive in the GIII Chilukki Stakes a few weeks ago.   Storm Bird an Interested Party Since delivering Plutarch, Stellar Wind has favored Gun Runner with a couple of visits–another testament to the challenge he is laying down to Into Mischief. As noted above, however, the pair meanwhile co-operated to provide the winners of the Las Virgenes Stakes and Martha Washington Stakes in Meaning and Search Party. Only at their respective second dams, therefore, do these two pedigrees part company–and Search Party does so in particularly auspicious fashion. For she was bred by Tracy Farmer from Devious Charm, another versatile daughter of Into Mischief who broke her maiden at Kentucky Downs but got her stakes podium on dirt. Farmer had bought her as a $260,000 yearling in 2017: Into Mischief was moving up the ranks, and she was out of Limbo, only placed during a light career in Europe but a daughter of A.P. Indy and none other than Storm Bird's Grade I-winning sister Northernette (Northern Dancer). Gun Runner will meanwhile look to strengthen his Derby hand when Paladin lines up for the GII Risen Star Stakes on Valentine's Day. Let's hope he remembers to send Stellar Wind a card. The post Breeding Digest: Silent Breakout Amplifies Sire and Damsire appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Paladin is the 8-1 individual morning-line favorite and "All Other 3-Year-Olds" not named within the 39 individual interests as the overall 4-1 choice in the latest Kentucky Derby Future Wager.View the full article