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J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Risen Star S. (G2) at Fair Grounds.

Rock Slide was a full brother to 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft and to multiple grade 1 winner Tomisue’s Delight.

The Thoroughbred racing season at Lone Star Park will begin April 13, 2023, with 44 live racing days and will conclude July 4.

The Asian Racing Federation has re-elected Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges and Masayuki Goto as chairman and vice-chairman, respectively.

Scheffres’ claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner Factor It In, narrowly beaten in a pair of out-of-town graded stakes last year, will have home track advantage when he makes his return to graded company in the $250,000 General George (G3) Feb. 18.

Delegates to the 39th Asian Racing Conference in Melbourne heard appeals to address mental health issues, animal welfare, and the environment during the meeting’s second business session.

Winngate Stables’ Kathleen O. will seek to extend her undefeated record in Gulfstream Park stakes Feb. 18, when the 4-year-old daughter of Upstart returns in the $150,000 Royal Delta Stakes (G3).

The Australian vet synonymous with stringent protocols that decimated international participation in the Melbourne Cup (G1) has defended the measures and claimed public confidence in the sport has been boosted following two fatality-free runnings.

A training venture four years in the planning is taking its first step after Richard Fahey’s former traveling head lass Fionn McSharry decided to branch out on her own.