Gulfstream Park officials announced Jan. 10 that additional invitations to the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) and Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1T), to be held Saturday, Jan. 23.

Spendthrift Farm’s Maximus Mischief, a grade 2-winning son of Into Mischief, sired his first reported foal early Jan. 9 when a colt was born in Reddick, Fla.

The John Gosden-trained Dubai Warrior, a classy all-weather performer, is to fly out to Dubai in the coming days for an ambitious tilt at the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 (G2) at Meydan Jan. 21. 

Two winners of Breeders’ Cup races for 2-year-olds at Keeneland, Vequist and Fire At Will, resumed breezing Jan. 9 in South Florida, their first steps toward running as 3-year-olds.

Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, out since mid-November following leg surgery, said he expects to resume riding the second week of February at Gulfstream Park.

The auction house remains confident the strength and depth of the 1,273-lot catalog can help compensate for the void.

Trainer Phil D’Amato has transformed another addition to his stable into a graded stakes winner in California. Agave Racing Stables’s Charmaine’s Mia became his latest Jan. 9 in the $99,000 Las Cienegas Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.

Lemon Drop Kid has been pensioned from stallion duties at age 25. He will remain at Lane’s End Farm to enjoy the rest of his retirement, the Kentucky operation announced Jan. 8.

Trainer Brian McMahon has been fined €1,000 and banned from attending race meetings for three months having been found in breach over COVID-19 guidelines.

Zoffany, the sire of last season’s Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (G1) hero Thunder Moon, has been euthanized at age 13 owing to liver failure.