Having won this summer’s Fourstardave Handicap (G1T) at Saratoga Race Course, Halladay aims to expand his bankroll and his reputation as a top-class turf horse in the $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile (G1T) at Keeneland Oct. 3. Source

Sam Houston Race Park will kick off its 2021 live racing season on Friday, January 8 with an expanded 46-day Thoroughbred meet with overnight purses of approximately $248,000 per day. Source

Asmussen’s entries the Oct. 3 Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland include the only stakes winner in the field and another brilliant first-out winner. Source

The realities of the coronavirus pandemic have hit home for Eclipse Award-winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. Source

Bruce Lunsford, who is in the game for the long haul, eyes the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes (G1) after a foot ailment derailed his Kentucky Derby (G1) dream a month ago. Source

Having already faced off multiple times this year, Robert Bone’s Completed Pass and Warwick Stable’s Love You Much will be back at it again Oct. 1 in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Stakes, run at five furlongs on the grass at Pimlico Race Course. Source

Churchill Downs Inc., which owns Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, has been fined $2.79 million by the Environmental Protection Agency and has reached a $5.6 million settlement to address the track’s unauthorized discharges into local waterways. Source

It was a typical Preakness Stakes (G1) week morning at Pimlico Race Course as nine of the 11 3-year-old starters in the $1 million Triple Crown test took to the racetrack Sept. 30 for leisurely moves over a sloppy surface. Source