Major announcements during the final week of February 2021 figure to have monumental implications for Thoroughbred breeding and racing…but we don’t expect the ramifications will be felt for awhile. Last May, The Jockey Club announced a new rule to limit the number of mares a future stallion could cover in a calendar year to 140. We figured it wouldn’t take long for a lawsuit to be filed to challenge it. It took eight months. On Feb. 23 three Kentucky farms filed a complaint in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, Central Division. On the same day, Churchill Downs Inc. announced it had launched a process to sell the Arlington International Racecourse property outside of Chicago.