(Edited Churchill Downs report)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – First-time winner Leandro Goncalves, defending titlist Mike Maker and record-setting owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey are the recipients of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Media awards for 2009, and the champions will be honored at Churchill Downs on closing day Sunday, July 4 in the Trackside Winner’s Circle immediately following the second race at 1:16 p.m. (all times Eastern).

(Del Mar Thoroughbred Club)

DEL MAR, Calif. – Betty L. Mabee, who with her late husband, John, helped build one of the west’s great Thoroughbred breeding empires and played a key role in the blossoming of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and Del Mar racetrack, died Monday at about 7 p.m. at her home in nearby Rancho Santa Fe. She was 88.

Mrs. Mabee passed “peacefully and quietly,” according to her son, Larry, who noted that his mother had finally…

Move to Accommodate Horsemen Attending Breeders’ Cup

(Keeneland Association release)

Lexington, Ky. – Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton have jointly announced changes to their November sales schedules to better accommodate horsemen attending the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita, to be held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7.

(Equisponse report)

Armonk, N.Y. – David Lanzman, co-owner of 2009 Kentucky Derby morning line favorite I Want Revenge, has formed a partnership with Jeff Singer in the  July 18 purchase of a 2-year-old colt, Colin Stakes winner Fearless Cowboy.  

NTRA release

The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF) Thursday announced that the William Stamps Farish Fund has pledged $1 million to the PDJF, which supports some 60 former riders who are permanently disabled as the result of on-track catastrophic injuries. The gift will be annualized in four equal contributions beginning in 2009. 

Overbrook Farm release

Lexington, Ky. — Overbrook Farm, founded and developed by the late William T. Young into one of North America’s most successful breeding establishments, announced Tuesday, June 9, that it will completely disperse its Thoroughbred yearlings, breeding stock and the majority of its horses in training, beginning at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale.

Equisponse release

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – David J. Lanzman, who recently announced the 50 percent sale of his homebred Derby contender (I Want Revenge) to IEAH Stables, has purchased 25 percent of IEAH’s leading 3-year-old filly, Stardom Bound, it was announced Tuesday.

NYRA release

John “Jack” Dreyfus, Sr., the “Lion of Wall Street” who became one of Thoroughbred racing’s more prominent owners, died Friday. Chairman of the New York Racing Association’s Board of Trustees in 1969 and 1975, Dreyfus was 95.

(Golden Gate Fields release)

Harry Aleo, a prominent Northern California horse owner who gained worldwide attention with 2005 sprint champion Lost in the Fog, died at his home in San Francisco Saturday with his longtime companion, Deannie Bartlett, at his side.  Aleo, who succumbed to cancer, was 88.