Current top 10 freshman sire Leinster and Grade 1 winner Fire At Will will lead the 2026 roster for the debuting Mountain View Farm in Gansevoort, N.Y., north of Saratoga Springs.

The new venture, first reported by the BloodHorse, is an expansion of the Willow Brook Stables operation of owner-trainer David Cannizzo and Carolyn Cannizzo. Mountain View will be a full-service operation, offering breeding, boarding, foaling, layup, rehabilitation, and sales prep services. There are plans to add a training track.

Bango, the winningest horse in recorded Churchill Downs history, will begin his stud career in 2026 less than two hours north in Indiana.

Breakway Farm in Dillsboro, Ind., announced on social media Thursday that it will stand Bango, an 8-year-old Congrats horse. He will have an introductory fee of $2,500.

Bango raced as a homebred for Fred and Debbie Schwartz’s Tamaroak Stable and was trained by Greg Foley. He was retired earlier this month with a career record of 42-15-4-5 and earnings of more than $1.6 million.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Big Time Boss is dropping out of open stakes company with money rider Rafael Hernandez aboard to contest Sunday’s $150,000 Clarendon Stakes, a six-furlong test for Ontario-sired and Ontario-bred 2-year-olds.

Trained by Josie Carroll for Di Scola Boys Stable, Big Time Boss has raced twice with Hernandez aboard both times. The homebred overcame a tardy start to land his six-furlong debut with a 67 Beyer Speed Figure after dueling through soft fractions.

In five stakes victories this year, the 3-year-old gelding Barbadian Runner has never been favored, often going overlooked by bettors while stepping up in class. Now an undisputed heavyweight, he is the 6-5 morning-line favorite in a modest field of six in the $100,000 Richard W. Small Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bank Frenzy currently leads Doc Sullivan 2 to 1 in their head-to-head meetings dating back to last December. But when the two meet again in Saturday’s $125,000 Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Series, the edge may belong to Doc Sullivan.

The seven-furlong distance of the Thunder Rumble is a distance at which Doc Sullivan has won twice and at which Bank Frenzy is winless. In fact, Doc Sullivan is a two-time stakes winner at seven furlongs, having won the John Morrissey at Saratoga in July and the Mike Lee, also at Saratoga, in June 2024.

For a financial planner like Dave Smyth, the winner of this year’s Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge, return on investment is everything.

All told, Smyth put in 18 hours handicapping the Saturday Breeders’ Cup card for the tournament, the biggest live-money contest in the United States. By the end of the day, he had walked away with $607,800.

The ROI on his labor? Nearly $34,000 an hour.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The pick six looks straightforward Saturday at Del Mar, partly based on the assumption Nevada Beach will run as expected in the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes.

A pick six carryover of $51,879 is up for grabs when Del Mar resumes racing after the Friday card was canceled because of rain. All nine races Saturday are on dirt, including the 1 1/8-mile Native Diver, in which Nevada Beach is the 3-5 program favorite.

While the best Louisiana-bred in training, Touchuponastar, figures to make his annual appearance in the Louisiana Champions Day Classic next month at Fair Grounds, three $100,000 Louisiana-bred stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds have brought out a surprising number of talented entrants.