Juddmonte announced Jan. 18 that Mandaloun’s first reported foal is a filly, delivered over the weekend at Goodwin Farm.

Led by the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Stakes, Monmouth Park is set to offer $8.05 million in stakes races when the track kicks off its 79th season on Saturday, May 11.

After six years of equine fatality decline in California, the total number of equine deaths (racing and training, all breeds) increased to 82 in 2023. Regulators hope return to stricter policy on injections helps in 2024.

After racing was canceled Jan. 19-21 due to severe winter weather, Oaklawn Park moved the Southwest card from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. The Southwest Stakes (G3) is a Kentucky Derby race, carrying a point scale of 20-10-6-4-2 to the top five finishers.

Scott Miller bred the New York filly out of the Tiznow mare Sea Gazer. Magic On Tap is a grade 2-winning son of three-time leading sire Tapit.

Bred by Franziska Jacobs out of the half sister to Deutsches Derby second Schwarzer Peter, the colt is the first reported foal for Gestut Auenquelle’s three-time group 1 winner. 

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will play host to the second annual “Countdown to the Triple Crown” fundraising event on Saturday, Feb. 3.

The bill passed by a 35-1 vote Jan. 8 with the expectation that Murphy would sign the bill into law. But Drazin said that Murphy expressed his reluctance to pass anything that was approved during lame-duck session.

The filly born Jan. 18 is out of the Unbridled’s Song daughter Sophie Sophie.

Sales histories for horses entered in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale being held Feb. 5-6 at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.