Sara Elbadwi & Megan Burgess look back at the Gasparilla Stakes & the Wayward Lass at Tampa Bay Downs.

A quartet of Breeders’ Cup winners—Splendora, Nysos, Super Corredora, and Full Serrano—all recorded workouts Jan. 11 at Santa Anita Park.

After a brief retirement, veteran jockey agent Tony Martin is back and representing Jamison Mudd, an apprentice rider at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

First-crop sire Anamoe appears to have everything going for him. Plenty of noted judges expect the colt to deliver on that considerable potential at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Interest in Lane’s End sire More Than Looks initially put the Kentucky farm and Yulong Investments together in the stallion business. Yulong then raced Raging Torrent and Carl Spackler and sent both to start their stud careers at Lane’s End.

Now a perfect 2-for-2 for trainer Mark Glatt, So Happy defeated odds-on favorite Buetane, trained by Bob Baffert, as Acknowledgemeplz ran third in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park Jan. 10.

Runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) last spring, Legion Racing’s Drexel Hill kicked off her 4-year-old campaign with a triumph in the $100,000 Wayward Lass Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Jan. 10.

In a four-horse blanket finish, Khaya Stables’ homebred The Real Prince prevailed by a nose over Questioning Jan. 10 to win the King’s Plate (G1) at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth in South Africa.

Jockey Gregg McCarron, who won more than 2,400 races in a 24-year career and who steered his younger brother, Chris McCarron, to a Hall of Fame career as a rider, died on his 96-acre farm near Mt. Airy, Md., Jan. 8. He was 77.

Her 3-year-old debut may have been delayed a week by rain, but that did not stop Explora from proving a legitimate contender for the Kentucky Oaks (G1) as she played with her rivals Jan. 10 in the $98,000 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita Park.