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The Winter Thoroughbred meet opened on Friday, December 9 with a win in the featured race by Hialeah Hottie.

Iowa-bred sensation Tyler’s Tribe, who finished third as the heavy favorite in the $150,000 Advent Stakes for 2-year-olds Friday at Oaklawn, will receive a 30-day break after bleeding during the 5 ½-furlong race, Tim Martin, the gelding’s co-owner/trainer, said Saturday morning.

The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2023 Winter Mixed Sale is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com.

The big story of opening day was run down by a long shot.

Five weeks after a noteworthy hiccup in a previously spotless career, Tyler’s Tribe tries to return to the winner’s circle in the Advent

Keeneland has cataloged 1,509 horses – broodmares and broodmare prospects, yearlings and horses of racing age as well as stallions and stallion prospects – for the 66th January Horses of All Ages Sale, which will cover four sessions from Jan. 9-12, 2023.

On Nov. 26, Bolt d’Oro’s son Instant Coffee became the stallion’s fifth stakes victor with a 1 1/4-length success in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Instant Coffee is his sire’s third graded winner, and the sire has nine racers who are stakes-placed.

Fans will have their second of six opportunities to bet on the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) Thursday-Sunday

Topping the Three chimneys roster is sire sensation Gun Runner who ranks number one by percent Grade 1 winners, Grade 1 stakes horses, graded stakes winners, graded stakes horses, black type winners, and black type horses.

Trainer Tim Martin told Horse Racing Nation this week that the bleeding episode suffered by 2-year-old Tyler's Tribe in the Breeders' Cup was the gelding's first instance of EIPH, or exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhage.