OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Linda Rice became Thoroughbred racing’s all-time winningest female trainer when Treaty Obligation won Saturday’s sixth race at Aqueduct.

It was the 2,511th victory of Rice’s career, moving her past Kathleen O’Connell, who is still active.

“It’s another nice accomplishment,” Rice said. “When I started training there were very few women here and I’m very proud to see there’s women doing great things all over the country now. When I came to New York that was not the case. If I helped open up any of those doors, I’m happy to have done that.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. — Following a one-day cancellation of  live racing due to unsafe air quality at the upper levels of Aqueduct live racing resumed Saturday, but not all operations resumed as normal.

The people most impacted by the unhealthy air quality on Friday – the stewards, the track announcer, the teletimer operator, placing judges, and Equibase personnel – did not return to their typical posts Saturday and instead were relocated to other parts of the building.

Del Mar has sharply reduced overnight purses for its upcoming autumn meeting after a decline in business at the summer meeting that ended on Sept. 8.

The track recently published a condition book detailing the proposed races for the 16-day fall meeting from Oct. 31 to Dec. 1.

A maiden race will be worth $54,000 this fall compared to $61,000 in 2023, while the purse of a first-condition allowance race has been reduced from $63,000 in 2023 to $55,000 this year.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and the Jockeys’ Guild have reached an agreement that will provide free mental-health services to riders, the two organizations announced on Thursday.

Onrise, a company that specializes in providing mental-health services to athletes, will give riders access to a confidential platform that can connect the jockeys “to reliable mental health support and guidance, helping to reduce the stigma of seeking help and fostering a culture of open-ness and care within the sport.”

Police in Arcadia, Calif., have said that three reports were filed with the office of thefts or attempted thefts during the California Crown event run at Santa Anita on Sept. 28, including a luxury watch owned by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler, according to police reports and a representative of Buehler.

An administrative law judge appointed by the Federal Trade Commission has reversed a stewards’ ruling that disqualified a horse ridden by Oscar Ceballos under a regulation prohibiting more than six whip strikes of a horse in a race.

The administrative law judge, D. Michael Chappell, agreed with testimony from Ceballos and the horse’s connections that the jockey had exceeded the limit out of an effort to “preserve the safety of the horses and riders in the race,” an exception contained in the current whip rule. 

Total commingled wagering on U.S. Thoroughbred races in September plummeted 11 percent compared to the same month last year despite an increase in the number of races held at U.S. tracks, according to data released on Friday by Equibase.

Texas law-enforcement agencies arrested 14 people during a raid Sunday on an illegal racing operation outside of Levelland in the Texas panhandle, according to the agencies.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Racing Commission, and the Hockley County sheriff’s department all participated in the raid. In addition to the 14 arrests, the agencies seized illegal drugs, electrical shocking devices, and “large caches of currency,” according to the Texas Racing Commission.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will form a Veterinary Advisory Committee that will provide “feedback” on the authority’s regulations related to veterinary care and medication, HISA announced on Monday.

The committee, which will include up to 16 members, is the second formed by HISA in the past two years to address criticism from the training and veterinary community that the authority has given inadequate weight to insiders about its regulations. Late in 2022, HISA formed a Horsemen’s Advisory Committee with a similar role.

The Horseracing Integrity and Wagering Unit has lifted its provisional suspension of trainer Robertino Diodoro, a prolific trainer based mostly in the Midwest, according to a ruling posted on the organization’s website and Diodoro.