Trained and co-owned by Brittany Russell with Dark Horse Racing, Hello Hot Rod gamely held off Return the Ring by a head in the Jan. 31 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes for sophomores at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Medina Spirit stared defeat in the eye down the homestretch and refused to blink, holding off two pursuers through the last quarter-mile to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.

Veteran trainer Milton Bradley, who made a career out of turning moderately-priced racehorses into serial winners, has decided to call time on a training career spanning more than 50 years with immediate effect.

The Irish National Stud was inducted into the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Hall of Fame Jan. 30, topping the 2020 ITBA National Breeding and Racing Awards that were presented in a virtual ceremony. 

Paul Haigh, the long-standing Racing Post writer and former racing journalist of the year, has died aged 76.

A field of at least six, topped by runaway Jerome Stakes winner Capo Kane, is falling into place for the Feb. 6 $250,000 Withers Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct Racetrack.

C R K Stable’s Express Train punched his ticket to the March 6 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) Jan. 30 with a 3 1/4-length score in the $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park.

Willis Horton Racing’s homebred Will’s Secret is a secret no longer after making the successful jump from maiden winner to stakes winner in the $200,000 Martha Washington Stakes Jan. 30 at Oaklawn Park.

Favored Medina Spirit repelled Roman Centurian and Hot Rod Charlie to win a three-way photo in the $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) Jan. 30 at Santa Anita Park.

Favored Medina Spirit repelled Roman Centurian and Hot Rod Charlie to win a three-way photo in the $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) Jan. 30 at Santa Anita Park.

Willis Horton Racing’s homebred Will’s Secret is a secret no longer after making the successful jump from maiden winner to stakes winner in the $200,000 Martha Washington Stakes Jan. 30 at Oaklawn Park.

Proven class and exciting potential are the orders of the day at Whitsbury Manor Stud, whose director Ed Harper has plenty of reasons for optimism ahead of the forthcoming breeding season. 

A gutsy sustained run carried Shadwell Stable’s homebred Zaajel to victory in the $100,000 Forward Gal Stakes (G3) Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park, where the Street Sense filly went 2-for-2 while stepping onto the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.

Courtlandt Farms’ Greatest Honour launched a strong, four-wide move on the final turn and took a big step forward on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Jan. 30 by winning the $200,000 Holy Bull Stakes (G3).

Courtlandt Farms’ Greatest Honour launched a strong, four-wide move on the final turn and took a big step forward on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Jan. 30 by winning the $200,000 Holy Bull Stakes (G3).

American Power made his first stakes appearance in 16 months a winning one, dueling in the stretch before taking command in the final sixteenth of a mile to win the $145,500 Toboggan Stakes (G3) by a half-length Jan. 30 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

St. James’s Square, who has carried with him the millstone of being the seven-figure sales-topper at Keeneland in 2018, is set to pay a second visit to Naas Jan. 31 under circumstances very different to his first.

Time ran out on the five 3-year-olds trying to catch Drain the Clock in the $100,000 Claiborne Farm Swale Stakes (G3) Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park.

Owners Alex and JoAnn Lieblong recorded their first career Oaklawn triple Jan. 24, when Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen saddled three winning favorites for the couple.

Sandin Syndicate Stable’s Pico d’Oro notched a stakes win as a juvenile and will look to capitalize on that experience in his 3-year-old debut in the $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes going seven furlongs Jan. 31 at Aqueduct Racetrack.