Although L and N Racing didn’t start its first horse until June 2015, the partnership has already hit a home run in Lookin At Lee, who was purchased for $70,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale.

Mark “Snake” Thompson, a fixture at North American racetracks and sales for several decades, continues to improve from the effects of a stroke as his friends and colleagues continue to help raise funds for his care.

The son of Mecke had broken his pelvis and developed colic. He was standing at stud at Oakmont Stables in Arizona.

Results released April 10 of National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top 3-Year-Old poll.

Alex and JoAnn Lieblong’s Rockshaw looks to remain undefeated in 2017 when he lines up against seven 3-year-old males for the six-furlong $150,000 Bachelor Stakes at Oaklawn Park April 13.

Tattersalls has cataloged 213 2-year-olds and 91 horses in training for its Guineas breeze-up and horses in training sale May 4-5.

WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, and SF Racing’s undefeated One Liner is out indefinitely and will miss his planned start in the April 15 Arkansas Derby (G1) and is off the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) trail.

Industry veterans Fletcher Mauk (Small Batch Thoroughbreds) and Josh Stevens (J. Stevens Bloodstock) have partnered with Advantage Agri-Marketing Services (Tyler Clarke and Jimmy Hall) to create Small Batch Sales.

New York horsemen and tracks will pay the full costs of equine drug testing in the state, an amount that totals more than $4 million annually, under a state budget deal that was given final adoption by lawmakers late Sunday night.

What may have looked like a prep race on paper for Ruis Racing’s Union Strike turned into an easy victory for the Union Rags filly April 9 in the $75,000 Santa Paula Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) winner New Money Honey is scheduled to make her sophomore debut April 13 in Keeneland’s Appalachian Stakes Presented by Japan Racing Association (G3T), a one-mile turf race loaded with talent.

Swear, the stakes-winning son of Redoute’s Choice, and Hit It a Bomb, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner by War Front, are new additions to the roster of five at Spendthrift Australia.

Chester and Mary Broman’s homebred Highway Star got back to her winning ways April 9 at Aqueduct Racetrack with a half-length victory over Indulgent in the $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3).

Horace William “Salty” Roberts, founder of Race Track Chaplaincy of America, died April 7 in Hollywood, Fla., after a sustained illness. He was 85.

St. Elias Stable’s grade 1 winner Sweet Loretta got back to winning form when she took the $150,000 Adena Springs Beaumont Stakes (G3) by three lengths at Keeneland April 9. 

Isabelle de Tomaso’s Irish War Cry has settled back into his Fair Hill base in good condition following his victory in the $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Dortmund, who won the Santa Anita Derby with a relentless effort two years ago, has been retired, owner Kaleem Shah said April 9.