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Godolphin's Opera Ballo scored a second straight impressive win on the Kempton Park all-weather course Feb. 26 and moved into the lead on the Euro/Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard.

Group 1-winning juvenile Henry Longfellow will shuttle to Rosemont Stud in Victoria this year, where he will stand for an introductory fee of AU$22,000.

Soul of an Angel clinched Eclipse champion female sprinter of 2024 with her impressive victory in Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) last fall at Del Mar. She is being offered as a racing/broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The Florida Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry provides one of the state's most robust agribusinesses, with 33,500 jobs and $3.24 billion in annual economic impact.

Liam in the Dust, a well-respected player in the 2-year-old filly division last year for trainer Rodolphe Brisset, returns to action in the March 1 $200,000 Busher Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trainer Mark Casse will seek to continue his dominance in Gulfstream Park's Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T) March 1 when he saddles a trio of runners led by D. J. Stable and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Vixen.

The Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of its 2025 grant awards cycle. TERF primarily aims to support students in pursuit of education in equine industry careers and to fund equine research efforts.

With Tenma and Vodka With a Twist, two of the top 3-year-old dirt fillies in Southern California, sitting out the March 2 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park, opportunity knocks for six others in the 1 1/16-mile dirt race.

Two different panel discussions at the National HBPA conference—one featuring lawyers and one with research veterinarians—recommended steps trainers can take to diminish the chances of a horse's post-race drug test coming up positive.

A collapsed company that built a digital enterprise called Game of Silks that aimed to bring virtual ownership of race horses and farms to the metaverse is being sued for securities law violations.

Sam Houston Race Park will pay tribute to jockey Stewart Elliott when he turns 60 years-old on Saturday, March 1.

Damon Thayer's theme when he delivered the keynote address Feb. 25 at the National Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association's 2025 conference? "Cooperation is always better than extinction." 

Jockeys Jose Ortiz and Juan Vargas share the Jockeys' Guild's Jockey of the Week honors for Feb. 17-23 after stakes-winning weekends at Oaklawn Park.

Ascot Racecourse, The Jockey Club, and Churchill Downs announced an extension of the 'wild card' entry initiative launched last year that ties together Royal Ascot, the Epsom Derby Festival, and the Kentucky Derby meeting at Churchill Downs.

Barnes, one of three Bob Baffert trainees, would be the fourth son of Into Mischief to win the San Felipe for Baffert.

Letters to the Editor for BH Daily, Feb. 26

A total of 157 horses sold for $4,965,400. The sale averaged $31,626 with a clearance rate of 80%. The catalog offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, 2-year-olds in training, broodmares, and short yearlings.

Godolphin's First Resort, scratched from the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes Feb. 22 at Turfway Park due to hind-end stiffness, has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left hock, trainer Eoin Harty said.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Feb. 25 that Jim Benes, Cheryl McIntyre, and Rich Nilsen have been voted by their peers for induction into the NTRA National Horseplayers Championship Hall of Fame.

Heart to Heart captured two consecutive runnings of the Canadian Turf Stakes (G3T) in 2016-17 at Gulfstream Park for owner Terry Hamilton and trainer Brian Lynch. Now Heart to Heart's top-earning son, Silent Heart, pursues Canadian Turf glory.