The inaugural New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day will be held July 21 at Saratoga Race Course, the New York Racing Association (NYRA), New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA), and New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) jointly announced Wednesday.

Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum, daughter of the late Shadwell Stables founder Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, will take on a prominent leadership role with the international racing and breeding operation as it continues on.

Super Saver and Daredevil were both acquired by the Turkish Jockey Club in late 2019, during a period when that outfit was bullish in the North American bloodstock market in an attempt to build its stallion ranks. Daredevil promptly sired an Eclipse Award winner the next season in Preakness Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver, along with Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil. His former WinStar Farm stablemare Super Saver has followed suit, with a good deal of success following his departure.

Gun Runner, the 2017 Horse of the Year, has made a fine start to his second career as a sire. Not only is he the early leader of his freshman sire class by earnings, he leads all North American juvenile sires through the first half of 2021.

At the halfway point of this year, Into Mischief again finds himself atop North America’s sires, by a number of metrics, and is also more than halfway to his own single-season earnings record.

Stormy Atlantic, the sire of stakes performers including Eclipse Award champion Stormy Liberal, has been pensioned from stallion duty. The 27-year-old Storm Cat horse, who most recently stood at Hill ‘n’ Dale farm in Kentucky, has returned to his birthplace, Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., to live out his days.

You’resothrilling provided her accomplished family with another thrilling moment as her daughter Joan of Arc won the French Oaks on Sunday, becoming the brilliant broodmare’s third European classic winner.

Unbeaten two-time European Horse of the Year Frankel was among the leading sires at last week’s Royal Ascot meeting, leading the charge for his own sire, Galileo, who continued to expand his legacy.

Frankel, who stands at owner-breeder Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Farm in Newmarket, was represented by three winners at the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. He notched victories with Mohaafeth in the Group 3 Hampton Court, Juan Elcano in the Wolferton Stakes, and Amtiyaz in the Copper Horse.

Denise Martin, who with husband Perry Martin co-bred and co-campaigned two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome, died June 14 at age 61.

Denise Martin, a trained chemist, worked for the United States Air Force as a civilian employee at McClellan Air Force Base, and later was CEO of Martin Testing Labs in Sacramento, Calif., from its creation in 2000 to its sale in June 2020.

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Entering this week’s Royal Ascot meeting, one of the major events on the international calendar, Make Believe and his grandsire Dubawi lead the European sires list by earnings – although Make Believe’s accomplishments are largely attributable to one horse.