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Hughes wins the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity by four and three quarter lengths under Juan Hernandez, a twentieth win in the race for Bob Baffert and a third from three starts for the unbeaten Into Mischief colt.

Sir Mark Prescott’s six-year-old mare Tiffany beats the Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Ethical Diamond by a length and three quarters in the two million dollar Kentucky Turf Cup at Kentucky Downs, and books her own place in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland.

Bill Mott says the 2025 Horse of the Year has an abscess in a hind foot and will miss a Saturday work, leaving his run in the Jockey Club Gold Cup that reopens Belmont Park on 18 September uncertain.

State lawmakers are putting up to 125 million dollars from the Proposition 4 climate bond towards buying the 161 acre Golden Gate Fields site and turning it into an East Bay shoreline park.

Trainer Angel Quiroz has been served with a provisional suspension after two horses at the centre of the Fair Hill Five betting case tested positive for albuterol following their 9 August runs.

The last three horses left Hawthorne on Monday morning inside a 9am deadline, ending 135 years of racing at the Stickney site, and the 90 million dollar bankruptcy sale is expected to complete today.

Two days after the Travers, Brad Cox says Leading Change may not run in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at all, with the 2027 Classic and the Dubai World Cup the alternatives.

Leading Change, having only the third start of his life, wears down Preakness winner Napoleon Solo to take the 157th Travers for Brad Cox and Manny Franco.

Banishing wins a second Charles Town Classic by two and a quarter lengths as Skippylongstocking’s bid for a third ends last of eight, and ten go to post in the 157th Travers this evening.

Golden Tempo returns from a summer lung infection with post nine in a field of ten for Saturday’s Travers, and Willie Mullins retires Galopin Des Champs.