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Coverage by Jessica Martini and Justina Severni Fasig-Tipton's Florida 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale returned to South Florida with its inaugural run at Gulfstream Park Wednesday and sales officials were quick to call the boutique auction's flashy new home a success.  "We couldn't be any more pleased with the results of the inaugural sale at Gulfstream Park," Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. said Wednesday night. "I'd like to thank the management and staff at Gulfstream Park. We had a vision and they had a vision to try to create something special...

Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) squares off against fellow superstar Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) in a most-intriguing renewal of Santa Anita's GII San Antonio Invitational S., which will be part of The Jockey Club Tour broadcast on Fox Sports 1 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first start for Perry Martin and Steve Coburn's California Chrome since being named champion 3-year-old and Horse of the Year at last month's Eclipse Awards. The GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero's three highest Beyer Speed Figures were earned at...

Sheikh Joaan Al Thani's powerful Al Shaqab Racing looks to get its first North American win at the highest level this afternoon with 5-year-old Mshawish (Medaglia d'Oro) in the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. A winner of last February's G2 Zabeel Mile at Meydan for Mikel Delzangles, the dark bay had an awful trip when sixth in his Stateside debut in Monmouth's GIII Oceanport S. July 27, and was disqualified from first to third in a Saratoga optional claimer a month later. Third in Belmont's GIII Knickerbocker S. Oct. 11, he broke...

Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm's Lea (First Samurai) faces nine formidable rivals as he bids to go back-to-back in Gulfstream's GI Donn H., which will be part of a Fox Sports 1 broadcast of The Jockey Club Tour along with the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H., GII San Antonio Invitational S. and GII San Marcos S. from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. EST. Transferred from Al Stall, Jr. to Bill Mott for a 2014 campaign, Lea annexed this venue's one-mile GIII Hal's Hope S. last January before setting a new track record (1:46.86)...

Kaleem Shah's Can the Man (Into Mischief--Smolensk, by Danzig), front-running winner of the 2014 GIII Affirmed S. and third in the GI Del Mar Futurity the previous season, has been retired from racing and will enter stud for the 2015 breeding season at B. Wayne Hughes's Spendthrift Farm in Lexington. Also bred by Hughes's Malibu Farm LLC, Can the Man will stand for $5,000, stands-and-nurses terms, and will participate in the farm's 'Share the Upside' program.  "It is with the success of Into Mischief in mind that we proudly introduce Can the...

In what has become something of an annual rite of passage, officials at Oaklawn Park have announced an increase in overnight purses of $1,000 to $3,000 per race owing to strong business in the month of January.  "To be able to increase purses this early in the season is a testament to the quality racing we've been offering," said Racing Secretary Pat Pope. "We have some of the top horses in the country in our barn area and I'm getting calls every day from horsemen seeking stalls."  The announcement means...

Fox Hill Farms' Normandy Invasion (Tapit) rejoined the Fair Grounds string of trainer Larry Jones Jan. 29 after recovering from surgery on a fractured right sesamoid last October and has his connections thinking big.  "If Normandy Invasion can hold up and [Dr. Larry] Bramlage [who performed the surgery and oversaw the rehabilitation of the 5-year-old horse] thinks he has a good chance, he could have a very good year," said Fox Hill Farm principal Rick Porter. "He is probably as good or better than any horse I've ever had other than [2011...

by T. D. Thornton Additional reporting by Mike Kane Terry Finley has filed a supplemental protest in the NYTHA election dispute charging that NYTHA's staff could have obtained a list of 2013 and 2014 licensees and their addresses from the New York State Gaming Commission if they had simply filed the proper request. Finley said he obtained the list of names and addresses from the commission eight days after filing a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, and enclosed that list with the filing.  The issue of whether NYTHA could or...

By Emma Berry  Freezing conditions in Newmarket were not emulated in the ring at Tattersalls, which saw a lively renewal of its February Sale post record figures for turnover and median and a strong clearance rate of 88%.  The median rose by 3.7% to 7,000gns, while the aggregate of 2,586,100gns for 240 horses sold represented an increase of 19%. The average fell fractionally (by 2.7%) to 12,256gns, from 12,597gns in 2014. Commenting on a buoyant start to the sales year in Newmarket, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, "Since the 2013...

Britain's enhanced zero-tolerance anabolic steroid policy is set to be implemented from Mar. 2, the British Horseracing Authority revealed yesterday. The policy was initially to go into effect Jan. 1, but the process was delayed in order to give the BHA further time to consult with industry stakeholders.  The BHA noted clarification and consensus had been reached with the Racehorse Owners Association, the National Trainers Federation and the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association on certain elements in the revised policy, including the definition of a “responsible person”--the person responsible for ensuring a...

Stay Gold (Jpn) (Sunday Silence--Golden Sash {Jpn}, by Dictus {Fr}), a Group 1 winner and sire of Japanese Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year Orfevre (Jpn), has died at age 21, according to Racing Post.  Stay Gold placed at Group 1 level six times through his five-year career before capping his record with his first Group 1 win in the 2001 Hong Kong Vase in his final start. He also won that year's Dubai Sheema Classic, when it was a Group 2 at Nad Al Sheba, by a nose...

Queensland stewards have deemed, based on veterinary advice, that Regu-Mate is not an anabolic steroid, bringing to a close a saga that put a yearling purchased at last month's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale under the threat of a racing ban after testing positive for the medication.  As part of random testing conducted prior to the sale by Racing Queensland of 20% of the yearlings offered, the unidentified colt was found to have altrenogest, a product found in Regu-Mate, in his system. When anabolic steroid reforms were made in...