Report from Japan

Jockey Edwin Maldonado is expected to miss 2-3 weeks after sustaining a shoulder injury during training hours at Santa Anita Park Jan. 6, agent Tony Matos said. 

Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look back at the results of Jerome Stakes & the Ladies Stakes at Aqueduct.

Muth was the best California-based 2-year-old of the fall, winning the American Pharoah Stakes (G1) and running second to eastern shipper Fierceness in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Two months later, he still appears on top on the West Coast.

The Asmussen family legacy saw the beginning of another important chapter Jan. 5 when Erik Asmussen, the youngest son of North America’s all-time leading trainer Steve Asmussen, rode his first career winner at Sam Houston Race Park.

The fall sales generated a lot of buzz for the first foals by Spendthrift Farm’s grade 1 sprinter Yaupon while Darley stallion Essential Quality leads the class with a $308,000 weanling average.

The catalog for the Goffs February Sale is now online and features 431 lots across the two days at Kildare Paddocks Feb. 7-8.

Charles Dickens secured an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) through the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series Win and You’re In, while Beach Bomb landed a guaranteed starting position in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T).

Spendthrift Farm’s Greatest Honour, the regally bred 2021 Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) winner, sired his first reported foal Jan. 5 when a colt was born at KatieRich Farms in Midway, Ky.

The founders of a new scheme offering mental health support to British trainers are looking to safeguard its long-term future through additional funding after revealing the service was used extensively in its first seven months.