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.

Jet Dark and Queen Supreme earned respective automatic berths into the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) and Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) after victories Jan. 9 at Kenilworth Racecourse.

Two winners of Breeders’ Cup races for 2-year-olds at Keeneland, Vequist and Fire At Will, resumed breezing Jan. 9 in South Florida, their first steps toward running as 3-year-olds.

Overnight purses have been reduced in advance of the start of the Oaklawn Park meet, a 57-day run which will begin Jan. 22.

Trainer and restaurateur Carlo Vaccarezza, who has run mostly in Kentucky and Florida in recent years, has sent a string to the West Coast. He currently has six horses at Santa Anita Park and plans to add another six more next week.

Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, out since mid-November following leg surgery, said he expects to resume riding the second week of February at Gulfstream Park.