Nominations will close Thursday, Nov. 12, for the Belmont Fall Turf Festival slated for Friday, Nov. 27, through Sunday, Nov. 29, and featuring 11 stakes worth $3.2 million in total purse money, at Belmont Park. For more information and to nominate horses, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont/horsemen/. The Belmont Fall Turf Festival is headlined by a trio of

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Emmy Schmidt and Marcum McLean have been named the two newest recipients of the Gerry Dilger Equine Foundation's scholarships giving the young American horse people entry to the Irish National Stud in Kildare. Emmy Schmidt hails from the small town of Sullivan, Missouri and studied at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Emmy obtained a Bachelor's degree

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Reigning Champion 2-Year-Old Male Ted Noffey (Into Mischief–Streak of Luck, by Old Fashioned) will retire to stud for the 2027 breeding season, standing for a fee of $60,000 S&N, according to Spendthrift Farm on Tuesday. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Ted Noffey became a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' when breaking his maiden at Saratoga

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Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher has been suspended seven days by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit (HIWU) after a horse he trains tested positive for betamethasone following an Apr. 17 race at Keeneland. He also was fined $1,000. Pletcher's attorney Drew Mollica said that his client has accepted the suspension and will not

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The Book 4 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded with the auction's seventh session Monday, and while the average and median increased for the section, gross sales fell with an increased buy-back rate. Through the two Book 4 sessions, 513 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $18,486,200. The section's

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