Coal Battle won the war against 2-1 wagering favorite Speed King down the stretch, defeating him by a half-length to win the $300,000 Remington Springboard Mile Stakes Dec. 13.

Officials at Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course reported that the track would be lift its quarantine mandate on Barn 4 at 4 p.m., Dec. 13, as all samples for strangles PCR have tested negative.

Ten-year-old stallion Always Dreaming, the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, died Dec. 10 in Oklahoma, according to bloodstock agent Chad Schumer and River Oaks Farms co-owner Francisco Bravo. He died from a burst cecum, Schumer said.

2019 Coventry Stakes (G2) winner Arizona is the latest stallion to join the exodus to Turkey, with the 7-year-old son of No Nay Never moving from Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud to Yigit Stud in a deal brokered by Michael Shefflin.

For the second year in a row Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma dirt training track has maintained a gold standard for equine safety.

Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look forward to the New York Stallion Series; the Great White Way and the Fifth Avenue.

Led by multiple group 1 winners El Kodigo and Don Feres, 20 horses have been entered in the 1 1/2-mile Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional (G1) Dec. 14 at Hipodromo de San Isidro outside Buenos Aires.

A competitive field entered for the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (G1) Dec. 15 at Kyoto Racecourse starts the serious winnowing of 2-year-old candidates for the 2025 Japanese classics.

West Saratoga, a grade 3-winning son of Exaggerator, sold privately to Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi’s RRR Racing for $375,000 following the Inglis Digital USA December Sale.

Jason Clark, who worked at Sugar Maple Farm, has died at age 47.