While the national fatality rate dropped to 1.39 in 2021, marking the third consecutive year of decline and the lowest rate in 13 years, Arizona has struggled to follow course.

Sarah Hamilton won her first race at Keeneland April 21 with Crackalacking, also the first winner at Keeneland for jockey Ferrin Peterson and the first winner for the filly’s sire McCraken.

Hal Hatch’s Halcyon Hammock sold a $575K Cairo Prince filly to Mike Talla and Rockingham Ranch on Day Three of the OBS Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

Pizza Bianca will commence her 3-year-old season on closing day at Aqueduct Racetrack, facing a talented but compact field in the $100,000 Memories of Silver Stakes Apri 24.

Lane’s End Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds partnered to purchase a Tapit colt for $1.7 million during the third day of the OBS Sale.

Virginia Horse-of-the-Year honors go to Chess Chief, who was also recognized as Virginia-Bred Older Horse Champion based on two stakes wins and $446,290 in earnings.

The California Thoroughbred Foundation is donating the contents of the Carleton F. Burke Library in Arcadia—one of the most extensive collections of equine literature found anywhere—to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

A former supervisor at a Long Island, N.Y., drug manufacturer who admitted to stealing $750,000 worth of medical products he then sold at New York racetracks was sentenced April 20 to one-year-and-a-day’s imprisonment.

The filly delivered multiple firsts in her April 21 debut at Keeneland. She became the first winner at Keeneland for trainer Sarah Hamilton and jockey Ferrin Peterson.

Lane’s End Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds partnered to purchase a Tapit colt for $1.7 million during the third day of the OBS Sale.