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Past The Wire Search February 18, 2021 There was some chatter on Twitter last week about Orb, the ten-year-old son of established sire Malibu Moon, heading to Uruguay, South America, to stand for the 2021 Summer season. While this has not been confirmed and a call to Claiborne Farm received a response of “we have no comment or information at this time,” there was one compelling Tweet. Hector Garcia, Communicator #MundoTurf on La Tele, Sport 890 and Ovación Tweeted: “The agreement was signed on the date for the arrival of the stallion Orb to Uruguay in a joint effort of ...

If races are supposed to grow more important as the Kentucky Derby gets closer, why is Saturday such a glaring exception? Simple, really. Neither the Withers in New York nor the Sam F. Davis in Florida has ever produced a Derby winner.

Baffert Duo Spielberg, Medina Spirit Take On Competitive Field In Bob Lewis Sponsored by: Spielberg and jockey Flavien Prat, outside, overpower The Great One in the Los Alamitos Futurity Although Bob Baffert will be packing a heavy one-two punch with Spielberg and Medina Spirit, Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes has attracted a very competitive field of eight sophomores, with no clear-cut standout. To be contested at a mile and one sixteenth over Santa Anita's main track, the Lewis is a key prep to the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 3. Originally titled the San...

Grade 1 Winner Fighting Mad Retired, To Be Bred To Curlin In 2021 Sponsored by: Fighting Mad went to the front at the start and was never headed in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Fighting Mad, a California-based Grade 1 winner, has been retired from racing and will be bred to Hall of Famer Curlin during the 2021 breeding season, Daily Racing Form and BloodHorse report. The 6-year-old daughter of New Year's Day won five of 10 starts during her on-track career, earning $472,008 as a homebred for Gary and Mary West and trained by Bob Baffert. Her biggest win came last year when she led ...

Triple Crown Weekend Prep Report Card: Midnight Bourbon Aging Well Sponsored by: One Kentucky Derby qualifying points race was held over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, but there were a couple of other races worth looking at. The points race was the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes from Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., a 1 1/16-mile contest offering 17 Derby points to the top four finishers (10-4-2-1). While no winners of the Lecomte have gone on to capture the G1 Kentucky Derby, there are some notable successes in the not-too-distant past, including G1 Preakness winners War of W...