Head of Plains Partners’ homebred filly Fluffy Socks looks to get her year started in style in the April 18 $100,000 Memories of Silver Stakes over the inner turf at Aqueduct Racetrack.

A head separated the winner and second-place finisher Royal Flag, who was a head in front of Graceful Princess in third. Speech, the 3-2 favorite, faded to last and was later found to have a “less than satisfactory endoscopic examination.”

Claire Crosby checks in on the Josie Carroll-trained son of Dramedy, who is entered to run April 17 in Race 8 at Keeneland.

In a tremendous boost to the profile of Widden Stud’s expansion into Victoria, the famed Thompson family-owned Thoroughbred nursery will stand Russian Camelot and Doubtland at its new Kerrie base, formerly Sun Stud, this spring.

Topping the fourth day of workouts at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale under tack show April 15 was a speedy of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms’ Violence who breezed an eighth-mile in :09 4/5. 

Five fillies shared the fastest one-furlong time of :09 4/5 during the fifth under-tack session April 16 that precedes the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Two males were co-fastest over a quarter-mile timed in :20 3/5.

Nineteen horses under quarantine have been cleared to resume training.

Although trainer Charlie Appleby already has top Guineas contender in One Ruler, Master of The Seas made sure he is not to be forgotten about and stamped his own ticket for the Guineas with a three-quarter-length success over La Barrosa.

Phoenix Thoroughbreds had action taken against them for the first time in Australia April 16, as Racing New South Wales and Racing Victoria moved to freeze all prize-money won by the group after an investigation into allegations of money laundering.

Two days after winning Canada’s top horse racing prize April 15—the 2020 Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year—Mighty Heart showcases his skills in America.