Loyd “Boo” Gentry, who trained Graustark and the 1967 Kentucky Derby winner Proud Clarion, has died in Lexington at age 87.

Millionreasonswhy, a 3-year-old filly who won the Grade 2 Matron Stakes at Belmont Park last July and was never worse than third in six career starts, died Sunday morning in a training accident at Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, Md., where she was based with trainer Ignacio Correas IV.

A news release issued Sunday by Sagamore, which owned Millionreasonswhy after buying her for $115,000 at the 2010 Keeneland September yearling sales, said the filly died instantly of internal injuries after crashing through the rail on the six-furlong training track.

INGLEWOOD, Calif .- Turbulent Descent, the winner of six stakes in California, Kentucky, and New York, has been sold to Coolmore Racing, Scott Sherwood, a member of the partnership that owned the filly said on Sunday.

A 4-year-old filly who has won 7 of 11 starts and $901,640, Turbulent Descent is scheduled to be sent to trainer Todd Pletcher’s New York stable on Tuesday.

Frankel's fine, but it takes more for greatness

The British Horseracing Authority recently gave Frankel a rating of 140 for his winning performance in the Queen Anne Stakes, the second-highest rating ever issued by the group. It is fair, however, to question whether the hype the horse is receiving is justly deserved.

See the questions HERE.

1. Triple Crown winner Citation won 19 of 20 starts during his unforgettable 3-year-old season in 1948.
After rattling off four victories at Hialeah in February, including the Seminole and Everglades handicaps and Flamingo Stakes, Citation shipped to Maryland.

Kelso was Horse of the Year five years running, from 1960 to 1964, and was one of racing’s most beloved stars as the sport’s golden era was slowly drawing to an end.

But a Cinderella colt named Carry Back, who gained fame during this period, could arguably have been even more popular with the racing public.

This was still the era when, on Saturday afternoon, the race of the week was often as popular as the baseball game of the week on national television.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer Mike Mitchell, who operates one of the most successful stables in California, was scheduled to undergo surgery Friday at the University of Southern California Medical Center to remove a brain tumor that was diagnosed early this week. Mitchell, 64, was admitted to the medical center on Wednesday, according to his wife, Denise.

The New York Racing Association has hired a former NFL team executive as its chief marketing officer and a vice president, the association said on Wednesday.

Rodnell Workman, who was most recently the vice president of partnership strategy at Madison Square Garden, was hired in May by NYRA, the association said. At the time, NYRA was under criticism from state officials over the decision by its board to elevate two of its executives to positions on the board. NYRA introduced Workman to a regulatory agency, the Racing Franchise Oversight Board, during a meeting on Tuesday.

CHICAGO – The Illinois Racing Board approved a stakes schedule for Hawthorne’s 2012 fall meet during a meeting Tuesday while also briefly addressing that track’s spring-meet centerpiece, the Illinois Derby, which made news when it was excluded from Churchill Downs Inc.’s revamped Kentucky Derby qualifying system.

Walter Haefner, the billionaire software and automobile executive who owned Ireland’s powerful Moyglare Stud, has died in Switzerland at age 101. Swiss news reports, citing a release from Haefner’s family, said the entrepreneur died in his sleep last week.