Last year’s race

Winner: Loving Dream

Jockey: R Havlin

Trainer: J & T Gosden

Owner: Lordship Stud

Age: 3 Weight: 9st 0lbs

Starting Price: 18/1

Season Form Figures: 25

Previous Best: 1st - Class 5 Fillies’ Maiden, Wolverhampton (December 2020)

By Paul Jones

The Texas Racing Commission will not allow Thoroughbred races from Texas tracks to be exported to out-of-state locations or account-wagering companies as of July 1, the commission said in a letter released earlier this week and confirmed by the commission’s executive director on Tuesday.

Foal and stallion nominators to the Breeders’ Cup have elected 20 individuals to serve as members, Breeders’ Cup announced on Tuesday.

The 20 members, who will all serve four-year terms, are: Rory Babich, Antony Beck, Gatewood Bell, Case Clay, Alan Cooper, Everett Dobson, William S. Farish Jr., H. Greg Goodman, Jonathan Green, Fred W. Hertrich, Jak Knelman, M.V. Magnier, Pope McLean Jr., Gavin Murphy, Garret O’Rourke, Mike Pons, Daisy Phipps Pulito, Jaime Roth, Tom Ryan, and Shunsuke Yoshida. All but Babich, Green, and Yoshida were standing for reelection.

Roughly half of the individuals in racing who will need to register with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority by July 1 to continue to participate in racing have done so, officials with the organization said on Tuesday.

Total betting on U.S. horse races in the month of May was statistically even with the same month last year, according to figures released by Equibase on Monday.

Betting in May was $1.414 billion this May, down $2 million from betting of $1.416 billion in May last year, according to the figures. Last year, betting figures for May included the Kentucky Derby card but not the Kentucky Oaks card, which was held on April 30. This year, both the Oaks and the Derby cards were held in May.

A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a number of state racing commissions and other racing-related parties that had sought to nullify the federal legislation that created the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority on Friday afternoon released a massive tranche of proposed national rules that will regulate medication use, the authority’s anti-doping programs, and its testing and intelligence-gathering protocols.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority plans to post new rules covering the sport’s medication use and drug-testing programs on Friday, the legal counsel for HISA said Wednesday.

Breeders’ Cup has created an incentive program to encourage participation in six of the dirt races that are part of its two-day event, the organization announced on Thursday.

For the program, Breeders’ Cup has designated 12 stakes races scheduled in the months prior to its event that will award credits to the owners of the top three finishers in each race. The credits can be applied to entry fees for the races, Breeders’ Cup said.

A number of leading Thoroughbred racing organizations have joined together with animal welfare advocates to press for legislation that would put in place penalties for the transport or sale of horses for slaughter in other countries.