Florida Thoroughbred Charities and the Marion Cultural Alliance are the beneficiaries of the proceeds of the auction of a one-of-a-kind equine artwork, Clockwork Fury, at Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Sale to be held March 16-17.

The plans to allow owners back from March 29, which means this year’s Cheltenham Festival will be run entirely behind closed doors as will the opening day of the flat turf season at Doncaster Racecourse March 27.

The Belmont Child Care Association announced Feb. 26 that its new childcare center serving families and children of the backstretch community at Saratoga Race Course is scheduled to open in summer 2021.

Gulfstream Park announced Feb. 26 that it will increase all overnight purses 10%, effective March 3.

Dr. A. Gary Lavin, a distinguished equine veterinarian, Thoroughbred breeder, and exemplar of leadership in his profession, passed away at his home in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 27. He was 83.

Jockey Michael Dee surely summed up the feelings of everyone in the recently-readmitted crowd at Flemington as he struggled to find the words after partnering 300-1 shot Lunar Fox to success in the Feb. 27 Australian Guineas (G1). 

We Got This Stables’ I Get It will go for her first stakes victory in the Feb. 27 $100,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park. The daughter of Get Stormy will seek her fifth victory in eight starts.

Hush of a Storm bested 10 other 3-year-olds in the Feb. 26 $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park, earning 10 points toward the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1).

Led by the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes (G1) and a purse increase to the $500,000 United Nations Stakes (G1T), Monmouth Park is set to offer $6.15 million in stakes races when the track kicks off its 76th season May 28.

Graded stakes winner Tax and Hooper runner-up Eye of a Jedi are also entered in the Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes (G2).