The Takamatsunomiya Kinen (G1) March 27 could test how much impact Japan’s international aspirations will have on domestic racing with only three of the 18 runners being previous grade 1 winners.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the UAE Derby (G2), Louisiana Derby (G2), and Sunland Derby (G3)

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program announced the winners and other placings from its 2021 performance awards program and the T.I.P./USPA annual polo awards.

Junior Alvarado, a mainstay at New York racetracks for the past decade, has decided to stick around following the April 3 conclusion of the Championship Meet to ride year-round at Gulfstream Park.

Chuck Winner, an internationally recognized expert in public affairs, crisis communications, and campaign management, who served on the California Horse Racing Board from 2012 to 2019, five of those years as chairman, died March 24. He was 81.

The 2021 champion 3-year-old filly will make her 2022 debut at Keeneland in the April 22 Doubledogdare Stakes (G3).

Trainer Bob Baffert’s legal team March 24 filed a motion with the Kentucky Court of Appeals seeking relief from a lower court order denying his plea to block a 90-day suspension of his racing license in Kentucky.

The 2021 champion 3-year-old filly will make her 2022 debut at Keeneland in the April 22 Doubledogdare Stakes.

The O’Briens’ bred and race Pretty Amazing, a last-start winner of the Carlton Draught Kembla Grange Classic (G3) at Goulburn, who is now a leading contender in the March 26 Vinery Stud Stakes (G1) at Rosehill Gardens.

Trainer Bob Baffert’s legal team Thursday afternoon filed a motion with the Kentucky Court of Appeals seeking relief from a lower court order denying his plea to block a 90-day suspension of his racing license in Kentucky.