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Lone Star Park officials are reminding horsemen that nominations for the $12,500-added Olympia Joe Stakes, restricted to Paints and Appaloosas, will close Friday, October 23.

Global Gaming Solutions has completed its acquisition of Wyoming Horse Racing, bringing Sweetwater Downs and 13 Horse Palace gaming and off-track wagering locations into the Chickasaw Nation-owned company’s racing portfolio.

Nestor Duran has surpassed the $4 million mark in earnings to lead the nation's Quarter Horse racing jockey standings through October 20, while Francisco Calderon and Juan Pulido remain among the leading contenders as the 2026 racing season enters its final months.

The American Quarter Horse Association has hired Jeffrey A. “Jeff” Hill as its new general counsel. Hill brings extensive legal experience and firsthand knowledge of AQHA competition through his years of service as an AQHA judge.

Lone Star Park has announced a contingency plan for the upcoming Texas Classic Futurity trials that could see the qualifying races divided over two days, depending on the number of entries received.

StallioneSearch.com continues its webcast coverage of the 2026 AQHA Racing Challenge Championship weekend with a combined feature on the $128,000 Q-Racing Video Distance Challenge Championship (G1) and the $150,000 Cox Ranch Distaff Challenge Championship (G1), held Saturday night at The Downs at Albuquerque.

StallioneSearch.com wraps up its webcast coverage of the 2026 AQHA Racing Challenge Championship weekend with a combined feature on the $154,750 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship (G2) and the $178,875 Adequan Derby Challenge Championship (G3), held Saturday night at The Downs at Albuquerque.

StallioneSearch.com begins its webcast coverage of the 2026 AQHA Racing Challenge Championship weekend with a feature on the $290,375 AQHA Challenge Championship (G1) at The Downs at Albuquerque on Saturday night.

Seven American Quarter Horse Youth Association members selected for the 2026 AQHA Youth Racing Experience gained a closer look at the racing industry while attending AQHA meetings Friday and the AQHA Racing Challenge Championships Saturday at The Downs at Albuquerque.

More than 2,000 racing fans packed Eureka Downs Saturday as live pari-mutuel horse racing returned to Kansas for the first time since 2008, marking a historic new chapter for the state's racing industry.

Gamaliel Garza Garcia, a Quarter Horse owner who spent nearly half a million dollars at the Los Alamitos Equine Sale in California earlier this month, has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for his connection to the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Cartel del Noreste (CDN).

The Arizona Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (AZHBPA) has scheduled a general membership meeting for Friday, October 23, as uncertainty continues surrounding management, licensing, and preparations for the upcoming Turf Paradise race meet.

Global Gaming Solutions moved closer to adding Sweetwater Downs to its racing operations Friday when the Wyoming Gaming Commission approved the transfer of Wyoming Horse Racing LLC’s live-event and simulcasting permits to a subsidiary of the company.

According to a memo sent by Leroy Gessmann, executive director of the AHPBA, and President Bob Budoff, the association’s Board of Directors will await an arbitrator’s ruling before taking further action regarding the lockout at Turf Paradise, which has halted off-track betting operations and left preparations for the upcoming race meet uncertain.

StallioneSearch.com previews Saturday night’s AQHA Challenge Championships at The Downs at Albuquerque in Episode 83 of the QH Racing Talk–Weekly podcast, exploring the event’s history and analyzing the five AQHA stakes races on the championship card.

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Sweetwater Downs closed out the 2026 Wyoming racing season with record-setting prize money highlighted by the richest race in Wyoming history, the $300,000 Sweetwater Downs Futurity.

For owners, breeders, and trainers looking to campaign top-tier juveniles in 2027, Los Alamitos Race Course will continue to be among the premier destinations for elite Quarter Horse racing. With three million-dollar futurities returning in the upcoming racing calendar, now is also a great time to set your plans, review important late payment deadlines, and plan for what promises to be an action-packed season of rich futurities here in 2027.