Tom Sage, the executive director of the Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission, is the new chairman of the Association of Racing Commissioners International, the umbrella organization of governmental regulators of horse and greyhound racing.

The 2023 Thoroughbred Owner Conference streamed its first panel March 7, with a dive into accounting and tax considerations for Thoroughbred owners.

Lauren Gash speaks with Norman Cash on conditioning horses through the winter at The Thoroughbred Center in Lexington, Ky.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs.

Forbidden Kingdom, who fell off the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail last year before regaining top form in late 2022 with a second in the Dec. 26 Malibu (G1), heads six older sprinters racing March 11 in the San Carlos Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park.

First and second across the finish line when they met last, Duvet Day and Queen Ofthe Temple head a field of nine older fillies and mares going 1 1/4 miles on turf March 12 in the $100,000 Santa Ana Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.

My Purple Haze Stables’ Drifaros is scheduled to step into graded stakes company in the March 11 $125,000 Hurricane Bertie Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park, where the 4-year-old daughter of Kantharos will make a bid for her fifth consecutive victory.

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association is hosting a Pedigree & Conformation Clinic on Sunday and Monday, March 19-20, in Ocala, Fla.

Hall of Fame racehorse Xtra Heat died in December, according to a release from Woodford Thoroughbreds. She was 24.

The Chairman’s Sale saw a surge of high-class entries March 9 on the eve of its close-off date for submissions into the Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series.