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Coolmore Australia have announced that Derby winner City of Troy will shuttle to their Jerrys Plains-based farm for the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, where he will stand for an opening fee of AU$49,500 (£24,300/€30,000).

Mauritzfontein, who own the Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein bred Gimme A Nother, will be offering buyers a chance to find the next Gimme A Nother when they bring a classy draft to the 2025 National Yearling Sale, April 10-11.

Fast-improving sophomores Cornucopian, Disruptor, Tappan Street try top Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races, the Arkansas Derby (G1) and the Florida Derby (G1).

It was Thornton's first grade 2 win and first graded stakes win since 2011 when he won the Stars and Stripes (G3) at Arlington Park. The win was over a field that included Sierra Leone making his first start since the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1).

A class drop and an opportunity to race a shorter distance suggest FMQ Stables' Saudi Crown will be a force in the $500,000 Oaklawn Mile Stakes (G3) March 29 at Oaklawn Park.

Bryce Miller, a San Diego Union-Tribune writer who earned a media Eclipse Award in 2019, died March 22. He was 56.

This week's schedule of racing on radio and television, compiled by America's Best Racing.

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and Godolphin have secured the riding services of Manny Franco for Sovereignty's highly anticipated start in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) March 29 at Gulfstream Park.

White Abarrio returns after winning the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park in the Ghostzapper Stakes (G3) there March 29.

Dual group 1-winning mare Emily Upjohn has been sold to Northern Farm and will relocate to Japan later this year.

On the second and final day of the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale March 25, a colt from the first Southern Hemisphere crop of former champion European juvenile Pinatubo topped the sale when selling for AU$290,000 (US$182,700).

Trainer Bill Mott was not surprised Sovereignty was made the 8-5 favorite for the March 29 Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park. "I guess it's a good thing we've shown we can run over the (Gulfstream) track," he said.

With the March 24 rule change by the BHA, any horse in the future remaining as a race's lone starter will now be declared the winner without having to set foot on the racecourse. 

Honeybee Stakes (G3) winner Quietside is set to defend her home dirt at Oaklawn Park March 29 against the undefeated Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots invader Simply Joking in the $750,000 Fantasy Stakes (G2).

The connections of Coal Battle hope his Oaklawn Park story comes to a satisfying conclusion March 29 as he faces eight rivals in the $1.5 million Arkansas Derby (G1).

With the organization's acting chief executive stressing the need to be proactive. the British Horseracing Authority is to introduce testing for gene doping as part of its anti-doping regime with immediate effect.

Byron King's Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.

With the March 24 rule change by the BHA, any horse in the future remaining as a race's lone starter will now be declared the winner without having to set foot on the racecourse. 

A grade 1 winner who banked more than $3.4 million, Seeking the Soul had an illustrious racing career. The Charles Fipke homebred won the 2017 Clark Handicap (G1), 2018 Ack Ack Stakes (G3), and 2019 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2).

Louisiana Derby (G2) winner Tiztastic arrived at Churchill Downs early March 25 from Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen's Barn 38, where he'll begin his preparations for the Run for the Roses.