KEEP announces three new board members.

Barajas will oversee a track crew that often maintains and reconditions the dirt track 18 hours each day using tractors and harrows to fine-tune the track for the racing programs as well as daily training of the horses.

Due to the generosity of their donors, the TAA raised more than $56,000 from the 17 offered VIP experience packages and no guarantee season to Lexitonian.

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Board of Directors announced Feb. 8 the appointment of Kelly Armer as Executive Director following the forthcoming retirement of Pat Stickney. She will assume her new role March 1.

California-based trainer Doug O’Neill detours Tall Boy to the U.A.E. Two Thousand Guineas (G3) Feb. 10, looking for a way around the logjam of Bob Baffert trainees back home and a clear shot to the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Key of Life is well into working off her $350,000 price tag with three wins from five starts—all on the board finishes—for Flurry Racing Stables and Hoffman Family Racing. She will look to add another in the Feb. 11 Dixie Bell Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

Horse racing is set to join Netflix’s stable of sports documentaries as the Racing Post understands the streaming service has commissioned a series based on this year’s Kentucky Derby (G1).

The last chance to pick up breeding stock and short yearlings at live auction concluded Feb. 7 with steady results at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale. Lemieux claimed top honors Tuesday after realizing $400,000 from Nice Guys Stables.

Led by 2-year-old champion and three-time grade I winner Forte, 369 3-year-old Thoroughbreds were made eligible to compete in this year’s Triple Crown series during the early nomination phase, which closed Jan. 28.

After a win in the Feb. 4 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park, Rocket Can is now sixth in the National Thorougbred Racing Association Top 3-Year-Old Poll. Champion Forte leads.