Oaklawn Park is raising the stakes for the weekend of the Jan. 31 Southwest Stakes (G3), announcing major enhancements to its high-profile horseplayer contests that will bring top players together for a premier national competition.View the full article

After the Finish Line's eighth charity auction of Breeders' Cup caps begins this Sunday, Jan. 18 and runs for one week. The auction's sponsor, the Georgia B. Ridder Foundation, honors Mrs. Ridder, who owned and raced Alphabet Soup, the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic winner. Proceeds will help care for, rehabilitate, retrain, rehome and/or retire off-track Thoroughbreds. A total of 114 caps representing runners from the 2025 World Championships are included in the auction, including Forever Young (Jpn), Ted Noffey and Shisospicy. “This auction brings aftercare, and horse racing fans together in a unique way,” said Dawn Mellen, President and Founder of After the Finish Line. “Fans can bid on the official hats of their favorite racehorses to benefit Thoroughbreds no longer racing. This helps raise awareness about the importance of aftercare for racing fans. We are excited to help build the bridge between racing and aftercare with this auction.” The post After the Finish Line’s Charity Auction of Breeders’ Cup Caps Begins Sunday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Canadian champion Dresden Row (Lord Nelson) is among the 248 entries for Fasig-Tipton's January Digital Sale with bidding now running through Tuesday, Jan. 20, beginning at 2 p.m. ET., the auction company said via a press release on Thursday. “The January Digital Sale catalogue features a diverse range of offerings, including nearly 130 broodmares or broodmare prospects available just ahead of the breeding season,” said Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. “Also catalogued are nearly 80 horses of racing age, including a graded stakes winning champion and several recently stakes placed three-year-old fillies. Following a tremendously successful 2025–highlighted by more than $50 million in gross sales–we're excited to build on that momentum with another productive year serving buyers and sellers on Fasig Digital.”   Featured offerings include: Dresden Row (hip 1): Champion 3-year-old colt in Canada in 2024, Dresden Row is a multiple graded stakes winner, including a victory in the GIII Autumn Cup Stakes at Woodbine last time out. Consigned as a horse of racing age by Jeffrey Bloom, agent; Folk Song (Mor Spirit) (hip 3): 3-year-old filly was a 3 3/4-length winner on debut at two and most recently became stakes placed in the Gowell Stakes at Turfway Park Jan. 1. She is consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by White Pine Thoroughbreds; Jacksmybrother (Mo Town) (hip 9): A half-sister to current sire Jack Christopher, this young broodmare is carrying her second foal by Vekoma, the leading first- and second-crop sire of his generation. Consigned by Legacy Bloodstock, agent; Alisal (Uncle Mo) (hip 22): A multiple winning 3-year-old, she was stakes placed in her most recent start at Remington Dec. 20. Offered as a racing/broodmare prospect by Warrendale Sales, agent; B Thedonald (Girvin) (hip 25): 3-year-old colt just missed second in maiden special weight company on his debut Jan. 3. Consigned as a horse of racing age by Derby Bloodstock, agent; Blazing Brat (Beau Liam) (hip 26): Stakes placed daughter of one of the hottest sires from last year. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent; No guarantee stallion season to sire of sires Street Sense (hip 36). A portion of the season's sale proceeds will be donated to Stable Recovery; Mares in foal to Arcangelo, Blame, City of Light, Drain the Clock, Elite Power, Kingsbarns, Mage, Prince of Monaco, Seize the Grey, Taiba and Tiz the Law; 2-year-olds in-training and yearlings. Click here, to access the catalogue, create an account or register to bid for the January Digital Sale. The post Canadian Champion Dresden Row Among 248 Catalogued For Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

By Michael Guerin Dance Till Dawn gets the last chance to add the icing to her career cake at Blenheim this weekend. The seven-year-old mare is preparing for her final weekend of racing before being retired to stud, in foal to Downbytheseaside. She is the third mum-to-be from the Dunns’ Diamond Racing team to finish racing this month, following on from Follow Your Dream and I Dream Of Jeannie. Dance Till Dawn has had a superb career for Team Dunn, having won 12 of her 88 starts and earned over $300,000 in stakes. “She has done a wonderful job and held her form for a really long time,” says driver John Dunn. “But this is her last weekend and she will get two cracks at winning.” Dance Till Dawn is a newcomer to the circuit and trying to continue the Dunn’s domination of the feature pacing races after It’s Tough won them both days at Nelson last weekend. “He has gone into the paddock so our next decision with him is whether we give him a long spell now or a shorter one and set him for the Country Cups Final.”   With Its Tough out of the way it does make it easier for Dance Till Dawn to overcome her 20m handicap today but Dunn says it can still be a big ask. “When they are off that sort of handicap it often depends how the race is run. “Clearly she is good enough to win coming off a good second a Motukarara last start in a stronger field but if they step and run off the front the one I am driving Bryce’s Meddle will also be hard to catch.” “He went two good races at Westport and has three wins on the grass.” As tends to be the case with our grass track Cups, or in today’s case the Cup Prelude (6.20pm), the field is even and with the grass tracks being so flat it can make coming wide difficult. Earlier in the meeting John Dunn says two trotters from the stable can win, although one of them can be extremely hard to predict. “We have Rock Lobster (R5, No.15) off 10m and she has been going good races so she has to be a good each way chance. “And we have Tyron’s Strapping Lad in Race 8 and he would win on his best form but he is a really hard horse to follow. “He won so well last start and has a lot of ability but some times his concentration wanders. “He might grow out of that and string a few wins together but at the moment he still has that mental immaturity.” To see today’s Marlborough fields click here    View the full article

Robert Clark, a 66-year-old equine artist from Paris, Ky., was named the Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards Sweepstakes winner by The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), according to an organization release on Thursday. Clark's name was randomly selected from the pool of entries. Clark, whose work includes the book “A Brush with Greatness”, and his wife, Susan, will be guests of the NTRA and Resolute Racing at the 55th Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards on Jan. 22 at The Breakers Palm Beach, Florida. The pair also will be guests of Resolute at the Pegasus World Cup on January 24 at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino. As part of the promotion, Resolute Racing and the NTRA encouraged fans to enter either themselves or someone they feel would enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime weekend experience.   The post Equine Artist Robert Clark Wins Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards Sweepstakes appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article