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It's still winter. All the good racing is in warmer climes, and even there we're nearly a month away from climactic weekends including the GI Florida Derby, GI Santa Anita Derby, and the G1 Dubai World Cup; in fact, big preps for those weekends are on tap with the GII San Felipe S. this weekend at Santa Anita (though they have a great card including the GI Santa Anita H.), and 'Super Saturday' at Meydan in Dubai. Nonetheless, a few sires are having noticeably good winters. Last year's record-breaking champion...

The scratching of the highly promising Scissor Kick (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}) from the G1 Randwick Guineas due to a virus yesterday altered the complexion of the Sydney Classic, but the race is still high on quality, boasting three Group 1 winners. Last year's G1 Golden Rose S. winner Hallowed Crown (Aus) (Street Sense) is deadlocked at 2-1 in the betting with G1 Caulfield Guineas scorer Shooting To Win (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}), and the pair finished first and fourth, respectively, to kick off their seasons in the G2 Hobartville S. over a furlong...

Jockey Ryan Moore, who rode Adelaide (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) to victory in the G1 Cox Plate in October, will return Down Under to partner the 4-year-old in his Australian assignments over the coming months. James Bester, spokesman for the partnership--including Coolmore--that owns Adelaide, told Sky Sports Radio, “Ryan will ride him--that is set in stone and fortunately his European commitments are such that he is able to get away so we look forward to seeing him on the horse again.”  Moore has ridden Adelaide in his three most recent outings while trained...

A total of 102 sophomores remained engaged in the G1 Epsom Derby following Tuesday's scratching stage, headed by current 6-1 favorite and 'TDN Rising Star' John F Kennedy (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). The Magnier/Tabor/Smith and Flaxman Stables charge won the G3 Juvenile Turf S. at Leopardstown in September, the race that produced last year's Derby winner Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who also hailed from the Ballydoyle yard of trainer Aidan O'Brien. O'Brien has sent out the last three winners of the Derby, and five in total, and has 21 entries remaining, including G2...

The European breeze-up season gets underway with the Tattersalls Craven sale Apr. 14 to 16, and the catalogue for that three-day stand is now online. A total of 145 juveniles are slated to sell, including the siblings to 43 stakes winners. Those include a full-brother to last year's G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Prix du Jockey Club winner The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) (lot 85). Mocklershill will offer a colt from the first crop of champion Cape Blanco (Ire) who is a half to G2 UAE Derby winner...

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...