Fighting Mad, one of the West Coast’s top older distaffers of 2020, has been retired from racing following a fifth-place finish in the La Canada Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Jan. 9. She will be bred this year to Curlin, according to co-owner Gary West.

Clearview Stable’s Diamond Ore, a $750,000 purchase at the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, makes her stakes debut for trainer Barbara Minshall.

Phipps Stable homebred Vigilantes Way will try to make it two in a row over the Gulfstream Park turf course Jan. 23 when she faces nine other older fillies and mares at a mile in the $125,000 Marshua’s River Stakes (G3T).

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Pegasus World Cup (G1) and Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1T).

The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board says it remains committed to combatting the use of unauthorized drones at racecourses and will continue to work alongside the gardai following an incident at Punchestown on Jan. 18.

Florent Geroux’s current stint as a riding regular at Oaklawn Park figures to go better than his first. Much better.

Pennsylvania-bred Bronx Beauty will return to Gulfstream Park Jan. 23 to do two things: redeem herself from last year’s off-the-board finish in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes (G2) and to finally bring home her first graded victory.  

On Tuesday, BBC South News was one of several media outlets to report that Newbury Racecourse had temporarily shut as a COVID-19 vaccination hub “to allow horseracing to go ahead,” prompting hundreds of social media users to criticize the track.

A collection of 24 of the best dirt and turf horses lined up Jan. 20 for grade 1 laurels and a combined $4 million in purse money as fields were drawn for the Jan. 23 Pegasus World Cup (G1) and the Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1T) at Gulfstream Park.

On the Meydan dirt, Military Law came from a pace-stalking trip, found a gaping opening at the top of the stretch and went on to win the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 Stakes (G2) by 1 1/4 lengths from Thegreatcollection.