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CHRB Again Votes Down NorCal Dates, Dashing Hopes For ’25 Racing At Fairs

The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) on Thursday voted down two separate proposals to allocate 2025 race dates to entities at Ferndale and Fresno that wanted to keep Thoroughbred racing going on the now-nonexistent Northern… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Frosted’s Meringue Closes From the Clouds to Earn ‘TDN Rising Stardom’ at Churchill Downs

Appearing to lose all chance after a super-awkward start from the inside post, Meringue (Frosted) slowly reeled in her rivals over the course of Churchill’s five-furlong turf test and was up just in time to… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Known Agenda’s Pure Eloquence Gives Freshman First Career Winner at Gulfstream

GI Curlin Florida Derby winner Known Agenda (by Curlin) registered his first career winner in the form of five-length scorer Pure Eloquence at Gulfstream Park Thursday afternoon. First-time starter Pure Eloquence broke sharply and was encouraged… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

O’Brien And Moore Royal Ascot Treble As Trinity College Strikes

Bouncing out of the G1 Prix du Jockey Club, Ballydoyle’s Trinity College (Dubawi) made all to turn Thursday’s G3 Hampton Court Stakes into a procession. Sent off the 5-2 favourite having been fourth in that… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Buick Nails The Fractions As Trawlerman Takes The Gold Cup

Godolphin’s seven-year-old gelding Trawlerman (Golden Horn) encountered a giant when runner-up in Royal Ascot’s G1 Gold Cup last year and, with old foe Kyprios having departed stage left, kept matters simple and made all for… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Navarro Sent To ICE Facility

One day after he was released from a federal prison, disgraced trainer Jorge Navarro is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is being detained at an ICE facility… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

June 19, 2025
 
IN TODAY’S TDN

In TDN America:.

  • With a flurry of late big-ticket items, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale concluded its two-day run with a new record price, as well as highwater marks for both average and median.
  • An immigration raid at Delta Downs racetrack Tuesday morning resulted in the apprehension of 84 undocumented individuals, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
  • Jorge Navarro, the self-proclaimed “Juice Man” and a central figure in the doping scandal that rocked the sport in 2020, was released Wednesday from the federal prison FCI Miami, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator website.  

 

In TDN Europe:

  • Godolphin’s Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) punched his ticket for the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf with a victory in the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
  • Trainer Aidan O’Brien is seeking a 10th edition of the G1 Gold Cup, and Illinois (Galileo) is primed to give it to him. Tom Frary has the preview.
  • Emma Berry checked in with the connections of G2 Queen’s Vase hero Carmers (Wootton Bassett) at Royal Ascot, as well as Jono Mills, who is connected to G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes hero Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder).

 

Curlin Filly Brings OBS June Record $975k From Gus King

With just some 20 hips left in the OBS June sale, Randy Miles went to a sale record $975,000 to acquire a filly by Curlin (hip 850) on behalf of Gus King. The chestnut,… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Jorge Navarro Released from Prison

Jorge Navarro, the self-proclaimed “Juice Man” and a central figure in the doping scandal that rocked the sport in 2020, was released Wednesday from the federal prison FCI Miami, according to the Federal Bureau of… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Windsor Castle Success For Havana Gold’s Havana Hurricane

Bringing up a second renewal of Royal Ascot’s Listed Windsor Castle Stakes for Eve Johnson Houghton since 2021, Havana Hurricane (Havana Gold) rounded off day two. Sent off at 7-1 having finished second in Epsom’s… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 
 

David O’Rourke

Joins the TDN Writers’ Room

      NYRA CEO David O’Rourke has a lot on his plate these days.There’s the rebuild of the Belmont stands, the shuffling back and forth between Long Island and Saratoga for the GI Belmont Stakes and the preparation for the return of the Breeders’ Cup in 2027. That meant there was a lot to cover when O’Rourke joined our team for this week’s TDN Writers’ Room presented by Keeneland. O’Rourke was the Gainesway Guest of the Week.

 

  On the subject of moving the GI Belmont Stakes a few weeks back on the calendar so that there is more time between Triple Crown races, O’Rourke said that is not something that will happen anytime soon.

 

  “For the near future, nothing is going to happen. Next year is the World Cup. So it’s going to start right after the week after Belmont. So nothing would happen in the near term,” O’Rourke said. 

 

   In our “Fastest Horse of the Week,” segment, which is sponsored by WinStar stallion Constitution, the fastest horse of the week was Nash (Medaglia d’Oro), who ran a 106 Beyer Speed Figure when winning a June 13 allowance at Churchill Downs. Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders’ Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, 1/ST Racing and 1/ST TV, the team of Randy Moss, TD Thornton and Bill Finley discussed the raid of the Delta Downs backstretch by agents of ICE and the situation in Louisiana, which seems to change by the minute but it now appears that the 2025-2026 meet at the Fair Grounds will be run.

 

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