Roaring Lion, the Kentucky-bred who earned the 2018 Cartier Award as Europe’s Horse of the Year, was euthanized after suffering from another bout of colic in New Zealand, ending his health battle that began in late July. The son of leading sire Kitten's Joy was 4.

Three-time leading sire Tapit and current leading sire Into Mischief will each have two chances at the Runhappy Travers Stakes on Saturday – each with one veteran of the classics trail and one newcomer.

The 3-year-old divisional picture remains wide open heading into this Saturday’s Runhappy Travers Stakes. None of the 12 entrants in the field, which is absent this year’s three American classic winners, has won a Grade 1 race.

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Medaglia d’Oro competed with distinction in the Travers at Saratoga and the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. He will now have the chance to take down both in the same season as a sire.

Medaglia d’Oro’s nine Grade 1 or Group 1 wins or placings included a triumph in the 2002 Travers Stakes at Saratoga. The following season, after winning the Whitney Handicap at the Spa, he headed cross-country for a runner-up finish in the Pacific Classic behind Candy Ride at Del Mar.

Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner and international sire Animal Kingdom recorded a rarity Saturday with three winners on the card at Saratoga Race Course, including a pair of stakes winners.

Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud and its stallions are in the midst of an outstanding year. The latest highlight – and just one of a few on the weekend for the operation – came when Pin Oak-bred Higher Power romped in Saturday’s Grade 1 Pacific Classic, stamping himself as a contender for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The owners of Zenyatta confirmed on Tuesday that the 2010 Horse of the Year is in foal to Candy Ride and believed to be carrying a filly. Zenyatta is boarded at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, which also stands Candy Ride, the sire of champions Gun Runner and Shared Belief. 

Roaring Lion, the Kentucky-bred who earned the 2018 Cartier Award as Europe’s Horse of the Year, has settled back in at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand as he continues his recovery from two colic surgeries in a 10-day span.

The Jockey Club is projecting a 2020 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 20,500, slightly smaller than the foal crop of 2019, the Thoroughbred breed organization reported on Sunday.

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Multiple Grade 1 winner Bricks and Mortar, favored in Saturday’s Arlington Million, will stand at Shadai Farm in Japan upon the conclusion of his racing career