Emerald Downs has announced a 50-day live racing season in 2021 beginning May 19.

Bluegrass basketball fans might recall the 2009-10 University of Kentucky men’s basketball season when coach John Calipari had five players on that squad who were taken in the first round of the NBA Draft. Chad Brown can relate to that experience.

The 6-year-old son of Speightstown is a grade 1-placed, grade 3 winner. He’ll stand at the Louisiana farm for $3,500.

Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) winner Charlatan will likely make his next start in the $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh Feb. 20, trainer Bob Baffert told Santa Anita Park media Jan. 10.

Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton may have required extra time to dispose of Rotherham United in the FA Cup third round Jan. 9, but the Goodison Park manager suffered no such anxiety as his colors were carried to success by Honor And Pleasure at Deauville. 

Senior jockey and president of the PJA for flat riders P.J. McDonald has backed his weighing room colleagues to continue to “do the right thing” in redoubling efforts to keep race meetings going during the coronavirus pandemic.

Considering that in his only other race at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Wells Bayou registered a clear victory in the Louisiana Derby (G2), choosing the New Orleans track for his racing return Jan. 16 off an extended layoff makes sense.

Japan’s 2015 Horse of the Year Maurice clinched his first black-type winner as a stallion in style as his son Pixie Knight led home a one-two in the Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen (G3) at Chukyo Racecourse.

A little more than 28 months had passed since the last time Ride a Comet had appeared in a turf race and that absence surely made his heart grow fonder for a start on sod. He won the $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park.

Shadwell Stable’s Lamutanaatty made a successful debut Jan. 9, when he was ridden to victory by Tyler Gaffalione at Gulfstream Park for trainer Chad Brown.