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Spendthrift Farm's Mo Donegal, the classic-winning son of Uncle Mo, sired his first reported foal this week when a colt was born at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.

Arqana's first sale of the season, the February Mixed Sale, will take place from Feb. 13-14 in Deauville and the catalog is now online.

During a presentation on equine grass sickness at the International Thoroughbred Breeders' Federation webinar Jan. 18, Dr. Beth Wells of the Moredun Research Institute revealed researchers are currently attempting to create a lab-grown horse gut.

The most recent Indiana Thoroughbred Alliance Charity Auction, held Dec. 18 on EquiRing.com, was the fourth rendition of the auction, and it hit a big milestone.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Jan. 19 that Stuart S. Janney III will be honored with the Eclipse Award of Merit at the 53rd Annual Eclipse Awards dinner and ceremony Jan. 25 at The Breakers Palm Beach in South Florida.

The Longines World Racing Awards ceremony will be held Jan. 23 and live streamed at ifhaonline.org.

The New York Racing Association canceled racing Jan. 20 at Aqueduct Racetrack and morning training at Belmont Park due to arctic temperatures forecast to impact the New York metropolitan area throughout the day.

A battle over Northern California race dates and a proposal to redirect funds to bolster Southern California purses yielded no action from the California Horse Racing Board during its monthly meeting Jan. 18.

The New York-bred filly born Jan. 17 is out of the Outwork daughter Credit Suspended.

Juddmonte announced Jan. 18 that Mandaloun's first reported foal is a filly, delivered over the weekend at Goodwin Farm.

Led by the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Stakes, Monmouth Park is set to offer $8.05 million in stakes races when the track kicks off its 79th season on Saturday, May 11.

After six years of equine fatality decline in California, the total number of equine deaths (racing and training, all breeds) increased to 82 in 2023. Regulators hope return to stricter policy on injections helps in 2024.

After racing was canceled Jan. 19-21 due to severe winter weather, Oaklawn Park moved the Southwest card from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. The Southwest Stakes (G3) is a Kentucky Derby (G1) race, carrying a point scale of 20-10-6-4-2 to the top five finishers.

Scott Miller bred the New York filly out of the Tiznow mare Sea Gazer. Magic On Tap is a grade 2-winning son of three-time leading sire Tapit.

Bred by Franziska Jacobs out of the half sister to Deutsches Derby second Schwarzer Peter, the colt is the first reported foal for Gestut Auenquelle's three-time group 1 winner. 

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will play host to the second annual "Countdown to the Triple Crown" fundraising event on Saturday, Feb. 3.

The bill passed by a 35-1 vote Jan. 8 with the expectation that Murphy would sign the bill into law. But Drazin said that Murphy expressed his reluctance to pass anything that was approved during lame-duck session.

The filly born Jan. 18 is out of the Unbridled's Song daughter Sophie Sophie.

Tom Hammond, whose dynamic career of more than 50 years in broadcasting, television production, and numerous contributions to the Thoroughbred industry, will be honored with the Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence Jan. 25.

Each of 1/ST Racing's venue racetracks will continue to make payments to the Jockeys' Guild to subsidize health and safety benefits, life and accident insurance, as well as short-term and long-term disability benefits for qualifying jockeys.