Dual group 1-winning mare Emily Upjohn has been sold to Northern Farm and will relocate to Japan later this year.

Honeybee Stakes (G3) winner Quietside is set to defend her home dirt at Oaklawn Park March 29 against the undefeated Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots invader Simply Joking in the $750,000 Fantasy Stakes (G2).

With the organization’s acting chief executive stressing the need to be proactive, the British Horseracing Authority is to introduce testing for gene doping as part of its anti-doping regime with immediate effect.

With the March 24 rule change by the BHA, any horse in the future remaining as a race’s lone starter will now be declared the winner without having to set foot on the racecourse. 

Trainer Bill Mott was not surprised Sovereignty was made the 8-5 favorite for the March 29 Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park. “I guess it’s a good thing we’ve shown we can run over the (Gulfstream) track,” he said.

Byron King recaps the Louisiana Derby (G2) and Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3).

With the organization’s acting chief executive stressing the need to be proactive. the British Horseracing Authority is to introduce testing for gene doping as part of its anti-doping regime with immediate effect.

Byron King’s Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.

With Monday’s rule change by the BHA, any horse in the future remaining as a race’s lone starter will now be declared the winner without having to set foot on the racecourse. 

A grade 1 winner who banked more than $3.4 million, Seeking the Soul had an illustrious racing career. The Charles Fipke homebred won the 2017 Clark Handicap (G1), 2018 Ack Ack Stakes (G3), and 2019 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2).