Kentucky Oaks (G1) hopeful Bella Ballerina is looking to begin her 3-year-old season with a win in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes (G2) Feb. 14 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Returning to a track he has had much success over, the Phil D'Amato trainee enters the race off a game fifth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) at Del Mar, after being compromised at the break.
Illinois veterinarian and Thoroughbred breeder Dr. Donald McCrosky has been fined $300,000 and suspended for 24 years in rulings on the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit website.
A highlight of the Southern Hemisphere session is the 3-in-1 package of the well-bred mare Moraless, out of a half sister to High Chaparral. She is offered in foal to Starman alongside her Southern Hemisphere-time weanling colt by Too Darn Hot.
Bob and Bonnie Roth's Majestic View Farms in Gardiner, N.Y., has seen a number of talented horses foaled and raised on the property, but has reached a new milestone as the breeder of Withers Stakes winner Talk to Me Jimmy.
Darby Dan Farm's Blazing Sevens has sired his first reported foals, which include a filly out of the Adios Charlie mare Rye Lane born Feb. 9 and a colt born Feb. 11 out of the Ribchester mare Championofmyheart.