Report from Japan

Report from Japan.

John Parker’s sophomore-runner Lonesome Boy, who raced exclusively on the East Coast last year and took the City of Brotherly Love Stakes at Parx Racing, was named Washington’s Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old colt or gelding.

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California Burrito, ridden by apprentice Irving Moncada, introduced himself to the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail Feb. 22 with a hard-fought win in the $173,500 John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park.

Multiple grade 3 winner Super Chow, in a change of tactics, steadily ran down Concrete Glory and edged clear to a three-quarter-length victory Feb. 22 in the Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Extreme Choice—Newgate Farm’s subfertile sensation—has done it again, with his son Devil Night’s stirring victory in the Feb. 22 Blue Diamond Stakes (G1) once again showcasing the stallion’s ballistic siring prowess.

Golden Vekoma led an American-sired 1-2 finish in the Saudi Derby (G3) Feb. 22 at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Jastar Capital, Polivka Equine Holdings, and Timothy Madden’s White Rocks grabbed the lead at the break and never looked back, securing a victory in the $175,000 Cincinnati Trophy Stakes at Turfway Park Feb. 21 on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.