Kentucky HBPA

10/10/2025

The interactive, electronic version of The Horsemen’s Journal’s Fall 2025 issue is now available online. It is an enhanced version of the printed magazine, which is currently being mailed. To view it online, go to https://issuu.com/thehorsemensjournal/docs/the_horsemen_s_journal_-_fall_2025.

Features in the issue include:

‘You Always Knew He Was Around’
Bernie Flint still involved in racing as an owner after successful training career

Deny and Defy
A look at scientific research involving atypical findings of specified substances met with resistance from racing’s leadership groups, plus an update on the complicated case involving trainer Phil Serpe

Day in the Life
Alpha Event Medicine offers a variety of medical services at the track, including those for horsemen, participants and fans

Picture Perfect
The importance of quality photos or videos when rehoming racehorses

10/09/2025

The Thoroughbred Racing Initiative (TRI) is gearing up for Florida’s 2026 legislative session, whether that involves a renewed fight to again defeat decoupling, a reimagined circuit in the Sunshine State, pushing for industry-backed legislation that strengthens the existing racing and breeding str...

10/09/2025

KY Horsemen: If you don't read anything else today, do yourself a favor and read this: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2s47uxzd
Photo: Davis Innovation

09/28/2025

New on our Youtube channel: Highlights of $400,000, G2 Lukas Classic, with 2024 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan wearing down Disarm for a three-quarters of a length victory. Stakes namesake D. Wayne Lukas' wife, Laurie, presented the trophy in the first running of the race since Wayne's passing this summer. The race came 25 days after what would have been Wayne's 90th birthday. Laurie Lukas said her husband would have loved having a Derby winner take the race bearing his name. We also talk to trainer Kenny McPeek, who considered Wayne a father figure, and jockey Francisco Arrieta, who was filling in for injured jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.

Saturday's 12th running of the Lukas Classic was the first since the June 28th passing of namesake D. Wayne Lukas, arguably the most transformative trainer i...

09/18/2025

Congratulations to the 2025 Meet Leading Trainer, Brad Cox!

Cox finished the meet with 8 wins, including the G3 Light & Wonder Ladies Marathon and G3 Blackwood Distilling Dueling Grounds Oaks.

09/18/2025

CLAIMING CROWN DEADLINE REMINDER
Horsemen: The 2025 Claiming Crown is set for November 15 at Churchill Downs with eight races totaling $1.1 million in purses for all levels of horses on both dirt and turf. The minimum purse is $100,000 with the Claiming Crown Jewel offering a $200,000 purse. The fee is only $250 to make your horse eligible to be entered, but the DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 25. Get more info and eligibility request forms at www.claimingcrown.com.
Stakes-size purses with starter-allowance conditions for eligible horses. DON'T GET SHUT OUT! It's not too late to claim or privately purchase a horse to run.
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