Saudi Cup weekend got off to a flying start Feb. 13 as a Kentucky-bred Saudi star in the making won the Fillies Mile and Mickael Barzalona took the International Jockeys' Challenge by winning the final two races of the series.
Millionaire multiple stakes winner Coal Battle is back on the work tab at Oaklawn in advance of his 4-year-old debut, which trainer Lonnie Briley said could come in the $500,000 Oaklawn Mile Stakes (G3) for older horses March 28.
The awards honor Canada's champions and recognizing their outstanding achievements in Canadian Thoroughbred racing and breeding. Multiple grade 2 winner Gas Me Up and grade 1-placed stakes winner My Boy Prince are finalists in multiple categories.
April Mayberry of Mayberry Farm discusses her Nashville 2-year-old out of Stella's Dream, who was purchased at last year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Listen as she talks about the best characteristics of Nashville's offspring.
Wagering on Lecomte Stakes (G3) runner-up Mesquite in Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager has been suspended due to a suspected soft tissue injury that removed him from Kentucky Derby consideration.
John Shirreffs, who trained Zenyatta to a Hall of Fame career and saddled Giacomo to win the 2005 Kentucky Derby (G1), died in his sleep Feb. 12 at his home in Arcadia, Calif. He was 80.