Tickets for the 2026 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, April 21.

Due to frigid temperatures and windy conditions expected to impact the Mid-Atlantic region, Laurel Park has preemptively canceled racing on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Lemon Muffin, a former D. Wayne Lukas trainee, will face 2025 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) winner Splendora in the $200,000 D. Wayne Lukas Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park Feb. 7.

Letters to the Editor for the Feb. 5 edition of BloodHorse Daily.

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The fifth-crop sire, acquired by the Korea Thoroughbred Breeders Association, had been in Korea less than two months.

John Kasbar announced Feb. 4 the return of third-crop sire Sweetontheladies to Florida. The multiple stakes winner and graded stakes performer will stand at Solera Farm near Williston, Fla., for the upcoming 2026 breeding season.

Super Corredora, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2025, faces Explora in the Las Virgenes Stakes. The two top sophomore fillies ran 1-2, respectively, in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

With the Southwest Stakes (G3) set for Feb. 6, it's only fitting that the winner of last year's edition also returns this weekend at Oaklawn Park. Speed King is set to make his 4-year-old debut in the Feb. 5 Fifth Season Stakes.