With strong rains predicted to hit Southern California over the next several days, Santa Anita Park has announced the cancellation of racing Jan. 29. The track had delayed entries for Friday while it monitored weather reports.

One year after prevailing in a three-horse stretch battle, Lady Apple will try to win the Houston Ladies Classic Stakes (G3) a second straight year in the 1 1/16-mile test Jan. 31 at Sam Houston Race Park.

Team Hanley and Parkland Thoroughbreds’ Joy’s Rocket, already a three-time stakes winner sprinting, will stretch back out to a mile for the second time in her career in the $200,000 Martha Washington Stakes Jan. 30 at Oaklawn Park.

Internationally renowned presenter Francesca Cumani hosts the online show from the National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket, England.

New Zealand Bloodstock owner Sir Peter Vela’s decision to offer his entire blue-chip yearling crop for sale at Karaka has been vindicated after his breeding operation, Pencarrow Stud, sold the two highest-priced lots Monday.

Rathasker Stud’s Gregorian sealed a first American stakes winner late on Sunday when the similarly-named Gregorian Chant made a rapid move from last to first in the Clocker’s Corner Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

Majesticperfection, a grade 1 winner and sire of 2015 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) victress Lovely Maria who was standing at Haras Rapetti in Uruguay, has died from laminitis, according to Turf Diario. The son of Harlan’s Holiday was 15.

Trainer Tim Hamm said Dayoutoftheoffice will likely make her first sophomore start in either the Feb. 27 Davona Dale Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park or the March 6 Honeybee Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park.

Zofelle produced a timely tribute to her late sire Zoffany by presenting him with a first notable success in 2021 by landing the Marshua’s River Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park’s lucrative Saturday fixture.

Keeneland and Red Mile announced Jan. 24 that they will temporarily close their historical horse racing operations. The action comes three days after a court decision reaffirmed the need for legislative action on HHR in Kentucky.