George Krikorian’s grade 1-winning Mucho Unusual has been retired from racing, trainer Tim Yakteen tweeted March 24.

“Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby” boils down to a one-race challenge with the leader opting for Dubai and none of the runners currently holding points in the series.

The New York Claiming Championship series returns for the seventh year March 26 at Aqueduct Racetrack with 10 starter stakes. This is open to horses which have started for a prescribed claiming price in 2021-22.

With a 90-day suspension issued to him by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission scheduled to take effect next month, trainer Bob Baffert announced March 24 that four of his leading 3-year-olds would move to other trainers.

The California Horse Racing Board has been in contact with personnel and executives at Los Alamitos Race Course concerning four recent equine fatalities there, the regulator said in a release.

Chad Brown enters 7-year-old Sacred Life and 8-year-old Devamani, the top choices in the morning line for the March 26 Muniz Memorial Classic Stakes (G2T) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

Nominations are now open for the April Digital Selected Sale, which will be held April 21-26.

The Texas Thoroughbred Association’s Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale April 6 at Lone Star Park comes at a time of great optimism in the Texas horse racing and breeding industry. Trainers trying to buy horses just wish there was more of a good thing. 

With a 90-day suspension issued to him by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission scheduled to take effect next month, trainer Bob Baffert announced March 24 that four of his leading 3-year-olds would move to other trainers, .

Cypress Creek Equine filed a lawsuit March 21 in Kentucky against four insurance companies that denied to pay on mortality insurance policies covering the late stallion Laoban, who died unexpectedly last May.