Trainer Shelbe Ruis indicated Feb. 2 that she felt track management at Santa Anita Park put undue pressure on her to run 3-year-old colt and scheduled first-time starter, C Falls, on a wet track she felt was unsafe.

Consignors live for major updates to the catalog pages of horses they are offering for sale, and the results from two major stakes races on Feb. 2 were impactful to two consignors at the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale, but with different outcomes.

J.B. McKathan, a member of an iconic Florida horse racing family who developed many top-level runners, died Feb. 2.

The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale being held Feb. 4-5 in Lexington provides the last opportunity for breeders to acquire mares or broodmare prospects prior to the start of the Northern Hemisphere breeding season.

Claimed by trainer Danny Gargan for owner Hugh Lynch a little more than three months ago, Tax is on a possible path to the Kentucky Derby (G1) after his score in the Withers Stakes (G3).

With 10 points toward the Road to the Kentucky Oaks on the line, Gary Barber’s Power Gal proved to be the best of the seven-horse field and claimed the $125,000 Martha Washington Stakes Feb. 2 at Oaklawn Park.

Battle of Midway followed his rival all the way around the racetrack and finished a half-length in front at the wire.

The apparent clear pacesetter on paper in field of four, Michael Lund Petersen’s Mucho Macho Man colt got out of the gate best, but when Kid Cantina and Magnificent McCool sped up on the inside, Mucho Gusto relaxed into third.

There was the way everyone expected the $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Holy Bull Stakes (G2) to go down, and then there was one Harvey Wallbanger.

Claimed by trainer Danny Gargan for owner Hugh Lynch a little more than three months ago, Tax is on a possible path to the Kentucky Derby (G1) after his score in the Withers Stakes (G3).

Klaravich Stables’ Feedback stamped herself an exciting prospect for the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) when she came off a 5 1/2-month layoff Feb. 2 to capture the $150,000 Forward Gal (G3) at Gulfstream Park.

As Runaway Ghost crossed the wire first in the $75,000 Ft. Bliss Stakes Feb. 2 at Sunland Park, trainer Todd Fincher was hit with a variety of emotions.

Jockey Colby Hernandez rode the 2,000th winner of his career Feb. 1 aboard Tigertail Ranch’s Crocodile Jacques in the third race at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots for trainer Victor Arceneaux.

The catalog for the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sale March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com.

The catalog for the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sale March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com.

Veteran jockey Paco Lopez has received a 30-day suspension from the stewards at Gulfstream Park for his role in a two-horse spill during the first race Jan. 31 at the Florida racetrack in which jockeys Romero Maragh and Carlos Montalvo were injured.