WinStar Farm’s Yoshida sired his first reported foal when a colt was born at WinStar Jan. 9. Bred by Anastasie Astrid Christiansen-Croy, the bay colt, who arrived at 10:58 p.m., is out of the Monsun mare Gravata.

The Thoroughbred industry turned over the last pages on their 2020 calendars with a sigh of relief. With the promise of a forthcoming vaccine and a recovering global economy, many are hoping that 2021 will bring with it a return to normality.

Trainer Todd Pletcher sent out a trio of contenders in the Jan. 10 Rego Park Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds, with Perfect Munnings besting Storm Shooter by two lengths to complete the exacta.

Thousand Words retires with four wins and a second from nine starts, with earnings of $327,500. He will stand for a “Share the Upside” fee of $10,000, or $7,500 on a standard stands and nurses contract.

Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Shedaresthedevil returned to Oaklawn Park around 4 a.m. CT Jan. 9, according to co-owner Staton Flurry of Hot Springs, Ark.

Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) winner Charlatan will likely make his next start in the $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh Feb. 20, trainer Bob Baffert told Santa Anita Park media Jan. 10.

The John Gosden-trained Dubai Warrior, a classy all-weather performer, is to fly out to Dubai in the coming days for an ambitious tilt at the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 (G2) at Meydan Jan. 21. 

Bluegrass basketball fans might recall the 2009-10 University of Kentucky men’s basketball season when coach John Calipari had five players on that squad who were taken in the first round of the NBA Draft. Chad Brown can relate to that experience.

Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton may have required extra time to dispose of Rotherham United in the FA Cup third round Jan. 9, but the Goodison Park manager suffered no such anxiety as his colors were carried to success by Honor And Pleasure at Deauville. 

Japan’s 2015 Horse of the Year Maurice clinched his first black-type winner as a stallion in style as his son Pixie Knight led home a one-two in the Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen (G3) at Chukyo Racecourse.

Bedecked in hats and scarves and winter coats, patrons of the Keeneland January Sale braced themselves against plummeting temperatures the morning of Jan. 9 to attend a special kind of show known only to horsemen: the broodmare parade.  

The New York Racing Association has barred trainer Eric Guillot from entering horses or having stalls at any of its three tracks in response to Guillot’s use of a racially insensitive name given to one of his horses.

Trainer Phil D’Amato has transformed another addition to his stable into a graded stakes winner in California. Agave Racing Stables’s Charmaine’s Mia became his latest Jan. 9 in the $99,000 Las Cienegas Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.

A top-level winner in her native land, Chilean-bred Sanenus broke through at the graded level in North America Jan. 9 in the $201,000 La Canada Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.

Trainer Brian McMahon has been fined €1,000 and banned from attending race meetings for three months having been found in breach over COVID-19 guidelines.

A little more than 28 months had passed since the last time Ride a Comet had appeared in a turf race and that absence surely made his heart grow fonder for a start on sod. He won the $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park.

A little more than 28 months had passed since the last time Ride a Comet had appeared in a turf race and that absence surely made his heart grow fonder for a start on sod. He won the $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park.

Mandaloun, a son of Into Mischief who went 2-for-2 in a pair of races for trainer Brad Cox last fall, embarks on the Road to the Kentucky Derby when he heads a field of 11 in the $200,000 Lecomte (G3) Jan. 16 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

Spendthrift Farm’s Maximus Mischief, a grade 2-winning son of Into Mischief, sired his first reported foal early Jan. 9 when a colt was born in Reddick, Fla.

The New York Racing Association has barred trainer Eric Guillot from entering horses or having stalls at any of its three tracks in response to Guillot’s use of a racially insensitive name given to one of his horses.