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    • The latest element of that I heard was raising the export levy, so that should help discourage a few more breeders and owners and keep the foal crop heading to a level where it matches demand.
    • Trainer Bob Baffert will leave some horses at Churchill Downs this spring rather than bringing all of his stable back to California, said the trainer when reached by phone Thursday afternoon. The story was first reported by Ron Flatter at Horse Racing Nation. Baffert stressed that he is not abandoning the West Coast. “I've always had a barn there before and I'm just splitting it up,” he said. “It's not like I'm deserting California. I have a lot of horses that have same conditions. I have more opportunities to run there than we do in California because the horse colony is a little low right now. So I need to run those horses.” Churchill's flagship spring-summer meet, featuring the Kentucky Derby, runs from Saturday, April 25 through Sunday, June 28. “I'm going to stay through,” Baffert said. “We used to stay through the meet years ago, but now I'm going to do it now because we need places to run. So I need horses here. I have so many horses in the same category. I can't run them. We just train, train. And so we'll split them up and then we'll mix it up, and so now I can run them. I can have them there and we can find more opportunities.” Baffert said that he is in the midst of getting the Churchill barn ready and putting together a team to run the Churchill stable. He declined to say exactly which horses would be going to Churchill, but noted, “I'm bringing all those good horses for Derby weekend, so there will be some nice horses there because if you go to Kentucky, you better bring the A team. You're not going to win there with the B team. It's tough.” Baffert also said that the timing of the meets played a factor. “California this time of year, there's a lull in our racing. And so there's just nothing really until Del Mar.” The post Baffert to Leave Horses at Churchill For The Summer After Derby Meet appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • The New York Racing Association and Chester Racecourse March 19 announced a new partnership connecting the Boodles May Festival at Chester Racecourse with the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.View the full article
    • Robert and Jeanann McCoy's Epic Horses announced March 19 the appointment of Austin Winfrey as stable manager, effective March 3. View the full article
    • In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Chukyo, Hanshin and Nakayama Racecourses: Saturday, March 21, 2026 11th-CKO, Falcon S.-G3, ¥77,300,000 ($488k), 3yo, 1400mT PRINCESS MOKO (f, 3, Charlatan–Tiger Ride, by Candy Ride {Arg}) validated 7-10 favoritism in graduating first time out on the dirt at Kyoto last November and has since finished second in a pair of starts on the grass, including a runner-up effort after setting the early fractions in the Listed Kobai Stakes Jan. 17 (video, #1). A $170,000 Keeneland September yearling turned $300,000 OBS April breezer, the bay is one of three winners from three to race out of a half-sister to MSW & GSP Ol Donyo (Curlin). O-Mishima B.; B-Dixiana Farms LLC (KY); T-Hideaki Fujiwara     Sunday, March 22, 2026 2nd-HSN, ¥11,280,000 ($71k), Maiden, 3yo, 1800m OUI CHEF (c, 3, Justify–Every Single Day, by Strong Mandate), a $110,000 purchase out of the 2024 Fasig-Tipton October Sale, breezed his furlong in :10 1/5 at last year's OBS April Sale and changed hands for $250,000. Every Single Day, a half-sister to MGSP Shooters Shoot (Competitive Edge), was purchased by Brandywine Farm for $90,000 in foal to Hit It a Bomb at the Fasig-Tipton February Sale in 2021. The Grade III-winning third dam Letgomyecho (Menifee) produced nine winners, including champion and four-time GISW 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Echo Zulu (Gun Runner); her GISW half-brother Echo Town (Speightstown), a fellow 'Rising Star'; and GSW J Boys Echo (Mineshaft). O-Kazuhiro Masuda; B-Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) (KY); T-Shogo Yasuda 3rd-NKY, ¥15,620,000 ($99k), Allowance, 3yo, 1200m TAKASUTAKASUTAKASU (c, 3, Mor Spirit–Mopsicle, by Liam's Map) carried Ryusei Sakai to a narrow victory when favored on Hanshin debut last Sept. 20 (video, #4) and he most recently returned to action with a runner-up effort over 1400 meters at Toyko on Feb. 21, his actual third birthday. The bay is the lone listed produce for his dam, a $10,000 acquisition out of the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Digital December Sale, and was himself offered three times at public auction. Sold as a yearling for $3,000 at Keeneland January and for $62,000 at OBS October, he was knocked down to Narvick International for $450,000 at the 2025 OBS March Sale. O-Katsuya Takasu; B-Twin Oaks Bloodstock (KY); T-Hideaki Fujiwara     6th-HSN, ¥15,200,000 ($99k), Allowance, 3yo, 1800m AMERICAN CALL (JPN) (c, 3, American Pharoah–Evening Call, by Tapit) is another to have opened his account at first asking, overcoming a slow break to score in the Sunday Racing colors over course and distance back on Dec. 27 (video, #5). A half-sister to GI La Brea Stakes heroine Constellation (Bellamy Road), the unraced Evening Call was hammered down to Katsumi Yoshida for $385,000 in foal to Catholic Boy at Keeneland November in 2020. O-Sunday Racing Co Ltd; B-Northern Racing; T-Koshiro Take   The post Expensive Mor Spirit Colt Figures Tough In Nakayama Allowance appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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