Keith Doleshel has been promoted to the role of racing secretary for Aqueduct Racetrack, the New York Racing Association, Inc. announced Oct. 12.

Quietly unassuming off track but devastating on it, Pinatubo finished his juvenile campaign the way he started with victory in the Darley Dewhurst Stakes (G1).

Three-year-old Galileo colt won the Ladbrokes Stakes (G1) at Caulfield

Speed machine Soldier’s Call to stand at Ballyhane Stud in 2020

A towering bronze sculpture of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat was unveiled Oct. 12 at Keeneland as part of the 11th renewal of the Secretariat Festival in Lexington.

Grade 1 winners Catholic Boy and Glorious Empire headline a competitive field of eight for the $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes (G2T) Oct. 14 at Belmont Park.

Each Saturday NTRA and BloodHorse provide a one-stop guide to the day’s graded stakes races, through capsule looks and entries. Races are listed in chronological order (all times Eastern). 

On the day it was announced that classic winner and champion Animal Kingdom had been sold to interests in Japan, his daughter, Oleksandra kept the stallion in the headlines by winning the Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes (G3T).

All of the significant stakes action in North America is on turf Oct. 12.

The Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards concluded Oct. 11 at Keeneland. Bessie Gruwell, Saul Castellanos, Jenny Carpenter, Leslie McCall, Ernest Blair, Amy Stokes, and Bobby Lillis were honored.