The horse Tom Bowling was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday via the historic review process. His induction represented another impressive accomplishment for his dam, whose impressive record may be even brighter than it appears. The accomplishments of several of her foals are obscured due to name and breed registry changes that would be unheard of in modern racing.

Horse of the Year Gun Runner succeeded from coast to coast, with six Grade 1 tallies including the Whitney and Woodward at Saratoga and the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar. A freshman sire, Gun Runner was represented by graded stakes winners at both Saratoga and Del Mar over the weekend.

There could hardly have been a sire more appropriate to give trainer Steve Asmussen a record victory than Tapit. The Hall of Fame trainer became North America’s all-time career wins leader on Saturday at Saratoga when the Tapit colt Stellar Tap won on debut. The victory gave Asmussen 9,446 wins, moving him one ahead of the late Dale Baird.

Keep Grinding

Tizway – Samsal, by Consolidator

Bred in Ontario by Huntington Stud Farm ($9,771 purchase by Joshua Attard at 2019 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Ontario division premier yearling sale)

Keep Grinding is a family affair for the Attard family, but should he deliver Queen’s Plate success, he would become the biggest standout for his own immediate pedigree, which is light on major accomplishment.

Pin Oak Stud, the Central Kentucky farm owned by Josephine Abercrombie, will disperse its remaining broodmares and weanlings and a handful of racing-age fillies at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky mixed sale on Sept. 12 this year, the farm announced on Thursday.

Silver State, who has already captured the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, will attempt to further burnish his résumé in this Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga Race Course. Not only has the Metropolitan long been considered a stallion-making race – with young winners of the race continuing to be sought after commercially as brilliance continues to be rewarded in the American marketplace – but stallions to pull off the Met-Whitney double have been on a roll as of late.

Stephen

Constitution – Naughty Holiday, by Harlan’s Holiday

Bred in Ontario by Trackwest Racing ($170,000 purchase by Al and Bill Ulwelling at 2020 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s spring sale of 2-year-olds in training)

Constitution sired an American classic winner from his first crop with Tiz the Law. He will go for an across-border score in his second crop with Coronation Futurity winner and Queen’s Plate hopeful Stephen.

Eclipse Award champion and prominent sire Bernardini has been euthanized due to complications of laminitis, the international Darley stallion operation of Sheikh Mohammed announced Friday morning.

One of the best sons of breed-shaping sire A.P. Indy, Bernardini was 18 at the time of his death. He was bred and raised by the Darley operation in the early years of Sheikh Mohammed’s ownership of Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., and returned to live out his stallion career there.

Dance Some Mo

Uncle Mo – Dance Again, by Awesome Again

Bred in Ontario by Sam-Son Farm

Dance Some Mo brings a family history of success in the Queen’s Plate and other Canadian classics into the chase for the 2021 Plate. The gelded son of young American classic sire Uncle Mo is a homebred from one of the most successful Sam-Son Farm families, and both his third and fourth dams won the Queen’s Plate.

Blue hen Win Approval, a foundation mare for Live Oak Stud who produced two Eclipse Award champions to run in Charlotte Weber’s red and white colors, was euthanized July 19 due to the infirmities of old age. She was 29.

“She will be missed, but never forgotten,” Weber said in a press release.

Florida-bred Win Approval, by Canadian Horse of the Year With Approval and out of Live Oak’s graded stakes-placed homebred Negotiator, was foaled in 1992. She won twice from 16 starts while trained by Pat Kelly, winning a maiden and allowance race at Monmouth Park.