HONG KONG: Champion trainer John Moore bounced back in the best possible way from disappointment in Australia when sending out Jacobee in perfect sunshine to snatch the HKG3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse at Sha Tin on 16 October.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO and IFHA vice-chairman Mr Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges on Monday, in Paris, chaired a discussion on the 'Future Challenges of Racing' at the 45th conference of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

USA: The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) has announced the agenda for the second annual NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance Professional Education Seminar to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, 18–19 October, at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.

HONG KONG: Two dazzling performances on the track lit up the National day meeting at Sha Tin on Saturday 1 October, both of them so extraordinary in their different ways that it is almost impossible to choose between them.

USA: The Breeders’ Cup, the Paulick Report and Kentucky Derby winning jockeys Pat Day and Calvin Borel are teaming up for this year’s edition of 'Breeders’ Cup or Bust'.

JAPAN: The Sprinters Stakes (G1), initially established in 1967 as a major 1,200-meter sprint race for three-year-old and up, was designated as a spring G3 event in conjunction with the new grading system implemented in 1984.

USA: The North American International Catalogue Standards Committee (NAICSC) has announced that all Listed stakes races in the United States and Canada will undergo further review of their Listed status annually by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s American Graded Stakes Committee (AGSC) and the Canadian Graded Stakes Committee (CGSC), respectively, beginning in 2012.

USA: A national fundraiser for seriously injured Quarter Horse jockey Jacky Martin will be held at racetracks across the United States on Saturday, 8th October. 

USA: The National Turf Writers And Broadcasters will honor recently retired Oaklawn Park track announcer Terry Wallace, the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, and New York-based Turf writer David Grening at its annual awards dinner on 2 November in Louisville, Kentucky.