Trainer Dave Donk had never seen anything like the scene at Aqueduct Racetrack on a Friday the 13th like no other for New York racing.

Fair Grounds Race Course, Sunland Park Racetrack, and Tampa Bay Downs are among tracks that have joined the growing list of Thoroughbred tracks that will run spectator-free due to an abundance of caution over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dubai Golden Shaheen sponsored by Gulf News (G1) favorite Imperial Hint had his last serious work at Meydan toward the 2020 edition of the $2.5 million dirt sprint, breezing 800 meters (about four furlongs) March 12 in :47 flat.

Tattersalls Ascot is pressing ahead with preparations for its forthcoming sales despite overseas fixtures having been cancelled or postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic.

Next to Turfway Park, Laurel Park will have the next busiest slate of stakes action across the country on March 14 with four stakes: the Nellie Morse, the Beyond The Wire, the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial, and the Private Terms.

Before the graded action amps up March 14 at Oaklawn Park with the Azeri Stakes (G2) and Rebel Stakes (G2), $350,000 Essex Handicap gets the stakes underway at the Arkansas oval.

Texas first-crop sire Live in Joy was represented by his first reported foal when a filly out of the winning High Yield mare Way too High was born March 10 at Broughton Farm.

Fasig-Tipton and The Stronach Group have cancelled The Gulfstream Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select sale of 2-year-olds in training at Gulfstream Park, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The winning son of Distorted Humor is out of a female family tracing back to 1983 Broodmare of the Year Courtly Dee.

Coming off a year in which he was an Eclipse Award finalist, owner Gary Barber aims to continue his momentum into 2020 with Laura’s Light in the $150,000 Maxim Crane Bourbonette Oaks March 14 on the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) undercard at Turfway Park.

Queen Bee to You, whose rose up the stakes ranks to become a dual graded stakes winner this winter in Southern California, has been retired due to a minor right ankle injury, trainer Andrew Lerner said.

While much of the attention focused on the high-profile trainers indicted earlier this week for charges related to alleged illegal doping of horses, there were others charged who played key roles in the scheme.

Dave Litfin analyzes stakes from across the country.

A guide to this week’s radio and television coverage of racing.

Appropriately on the undercard of Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) March 14 at Turfway Park, two prior winners of the Jeff Ruby, Blended Citizen and Somelikeithotbrown, provide a compelling warm-up act in the $150,000 Twinspires Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes.

All claims were dismissed March 11 against MyRacehorse.com by the New York investment firm that has an ongoing lawsuit with Zayat Stables.

The Food and Drug Administration might not be the first law enforcement organization one thinks of in a horse racing investigation but it played a critical role in findings leading to the indictments of more than two dozen people in racing.