There’s a lot of sorting out yet to be done among the top Japanese 2-year-olds and the Dec. 20 Asahi Hai Futurity (G1) at Hanshin looks like it will be a good start to that process.

During a contentious meeting of the CHRB Dec. 17, regulators granted a license to Los Alamitos Race Course through the end of June rather than a standard full year. A mid-year evaluation of Los Alamitos for a continuation of racing is planned.

Canterbury Park’s request for a 65-day 2021 thoroughbred and quarter horse racing season, May 18 through Sept. 16, was unanimously approved Dec.17 by the Minnesota Racing Commission.

The Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation (TERF) is pleased to award the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) $10,000 to be used for educational purposes.

The parent company of TVG, Flutter Entertainment, could face a loss approaching $1 billion following a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that found its online poker operation, PokerStars, liable for hundreds of millions of dollars to the state.

Court Return faces grade 2 winner Always Shopping and graded stakes-placed Traipsing in the 1 3/16-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.

Luis Alejandro Garcia, who was one of the most popular and well-liked jockeys on the old Rockingham Park-Suffolk Downs circuit, died in Palm Bay, Fl Dec. 16. He was 51.

Dates for the 2021 Thoroughbred racing season at Colonial Downs were approved Dec. 17 by the Virginia Racing Commission at its quarterly meeting, which was held virtually. 

Kempton’s Boxing Day highlight, the King George VI Chase, is set be run without spectators after Surrey was placed under tighter coronavirus restrictions from midnight on Saturday morning due to the rise in cases across the south-east.

An intriguing four days of trade at the Goffs November Foal and Breeding Stock Sale begin Dec. 18 at 10 a.m. local time.

Jamie Begg, a former assistant to trainer Mark Casse who Casse praised for his on-track preparation of Sir Winston before a 2019 victory in the Belmont Stakes (G1), has the first starter of his newly-launched training career Dec. 18 at Turfway Park.

Contact information submitted through Thoroughbred Connect by those interested in providing aftercare or assistance is now available when a horse’s digital certificate of foal registration is accessed by the certificate manager.

Harsh winter weather has forced the cancellation of racing in New York and Maryland.

Harsh winter weather has forced the cancellation of racing in New York and Maryland.

Harsh winter weather forced the cancellation of the day’s eight races. Live racing is scheduled to resume Friday, Dec. 18.

When you think back on the Thoroughbreds who were among the foal crop of 2015, there was one grand superstar in Triple Crown champ Justify and a host of other talented runners.

The Stronach Group is endorsing a call from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to ban the sale of North American Thoroughbreds to South Korean racing interests, it was announced Dec. 16.

The six horses entered in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) Dec. 19 are all competing for the first time since Del Mar, as is one jockey: Mike Smith. He rides Petruchio in the 1 1/16-mile race, where his mount faces Red Flag and four others.

It was all about the girls at the one-day Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal and Breeding Sale Dec. 16 with fillies from the newly added yearling section leading the way.

The 4-year-old son of Bodemeister will stand at Mountain View Equine Hospital near Steeles Tavern, Va.