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WinStar Farm has announced the hiring of Ben Hanley as the newest member of its Stallion Season Sales team.

Include, a venerable part of the Airdrie Stud stallion roster for nearly two decades, was euthanized July 18 due to complications from a long-running heart condition, Thoroughbred Daily News reports.

Kentucky-based stallions Creative Cause and Heart To Heart will shuttle to Haras Phillipson in Uruguay for the 2022 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.

The Real Rider Cup, a charity show jumping event created by Anita Motion to benefit Thoroughbred aftercare, is bringing the racing and equestrian worlds together in Lexington, Ky., just ahead of Fasig-Tipton’s July Sale.

Ultiple graded stakes winner You and I  has died at the age of 31 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, Ky, where he had been pensioned since

A pensioner at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, KY., since 2011, You and I was 31 and was suffering infirmities of old age.

In North America, the spoken and unspoken goal of practically every mating is to create a horse that will someday enter and win the Kentucky Derby. Short of that, making a bunch of noise on the Derby trail is a fine consolation prize.

This season’s Kentucky Derby preps have come and gone. Barring defections, the top 20 spots on the Derby leaderboard are locked up, and we know which horses are likely to enter the starting gate on the first Saturday in May.Up until this point, this list had been a hybrid of one handicapper’s opinion and runners likely to make the field. Now, though, we can exclusively focus on the top 20 horses on the leaderboard.

The 100-point Kentucky Derby preps have come and gone. All that’s left on the road to the Run for the Roses is Saturday’s Grade 3 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, which serves as a last resort for connections with horses on the outside looking in.

Zandon ran down favored Smile Happy to win the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes in Lexington, Ky., a key prep for the Kentucky Derby.