Michael Stidham discusses Mystic Guide’s prospects for the Dubai World Cup. Courtesy Dubai Racing Club

Ken Ramsey said trainers Mike Maker and Wesley Ward, who filed lawsuits to recover more than $1.8 million in outstanding debt, will be paid in full.

Jockey Dylan Davis is expected to be sidelined for 6-to-8 weeks with a broken left clavicle as a result of a March 20 spill in the ninth race at Aqueduct Racetrack in which one of the three horses involved in the incident died.

Five days out from the Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1), contenders from the United States continued preparations for the $12 million event at Meydan Racecourse.

Hot Rod Charlie’s frontrunning victory in the Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) March 20 was enough to elevate the son of Oxbow in this week’s National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top 3-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll.

Bastiman, the daughter of Robin, who trained the remarkable Borderlescott to two Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) victories, saddled more than 100 winners after taking over the reins from her father in 2015, and also rode three winners as an amateur jockey.

Haqeeqy will be the highest profile of the first runners to operate under the new joint John and Thady Gosden training arrangement when he lines up in the March 27 Unibet Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster.

Two owners per horse are set to be allowed back on racecourses in England and Scotland from March 29 as the sport takes a step back towards pre-pandemic conditions.

Greatest Honour tuned up for the March 27 Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park with a half-mile breeze at Payson Park Training Center March 21, pleasing Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.

Fierce Impact, Australia’s joint champion miler in 2019-20 and three-time group 1 winner, has retired to stud, trainer Matthew Smith announced.