In this week's On Racing, a significant part of the Thoroughbred racing community gathered at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia to pay tribute to John Shirreffs.
Irish Champion Stakes (G1) winner Economics has died in India at age 5. The son of Night of Thunder had been sold to stand at Poonawalla Stud Farms following his eighth-place finish in the Champion Stakes (G1) at Ascot Racecourse in October.
Whitham Thoroughbreds' grade 1 winner Burnham Square, unraced since trying turf for the first time late last August, will remain on the grass when he launches his 4-year-old season Feb. 28 in an allowance optional claimer at Gulfstream Park.
Feather Boa is a South African-born daughter of Flower Alley, a grade 2 winner and grade1-placed in her home country, who was brought stateside by Team Valor International, where she became listed stakes-placed.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Feb. 27 that Kevin Engelhard, Mike Ferrozzo, Chris Littlemore, and Ken Seeman have been voted by their peers for induction into the NTRA National Horseplayers Championship Hall of Fame.
The European portion of the Euro/Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby went into the books with impressive wins by well-bred colts but neither seems a likely candidate to line up in Louisville, Ky., on the first Saturday in May.
The March 1 program at Hong Kong's Sha Tin Racecourse is an embarrassment of riches with the middle leg of both the Triple Crown series and the Hong Kong Derby series.