There was no dream start for Kingman half brother Ferran Star in the Racing TV Maiden at Gowran June 7, but the Juddmonte operation was more than compensated by the impressive victory of another Frankel newcomer.

Adayar is to attempt to be the first Epsom Derby (G1) hero since Galileo 20 years ago to follow up in next month’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) at Ascot.

American Patriot was represented by his first winner June 6 at Chukyo Racecourse in Japan when his first-crop daughter Breathlessly won a 1,400-meter (about seven-furlong) newcomers race by 1 1/4 lengths in front-running fashion. 

Woodbine’s 2021 Thoroughbred Meet will open June 12, with Ontario entering Step One of the ‘Roadmap to Reopen’ plan earlier than originally expected, Woodbine Entertainment announced June 7.

In response to the New York State Gaming Commission’s June 7 implementation of a suspension against trainer Linda Rice, her attorney said he will file a stay of the order “as fast as humanly possible.”

First-crop sires Astern, Practical Joke, Gun Runner, and Mohaymen have winners with family ties to grade/group winners this week.

Rick Porter, whose Fox Hill Farms campaigned multiple champions including 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, has died. He was 80. Porter is remembered for his unwavering commitment to his horses’ care when racing and afterward.

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 348 selected yearlings for The July Sale, to be held on Tuesday, July 13, at the company’s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky. The sale will begin at 10 am.

Sal Sinatra has been named president of Equibase Company LLC by the Equibase Management Committee, effective June 21, 2021. He succeeds Jason G. Wilson, who left Equibase in April to join The Stronach Group. 

The Hot Springs, Ark., track will run a 66-day meet from Dec. 3 through May 8, 2022.