HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – His last race was very good. His morning workouts since appear to be extremely strong. If all are signs of what’s to come, Ohana Honor could earn his first graded stakes win in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 William L. McKnight Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Ohana Honor, a 6-year-old ridgling by Honor Code, unleashed a strong late run to win the listed Knickerbocker Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Nov. 14. It was a bounce-back effort from a disappointing fourth-place finish in the Grade 2 Sycamore at Keeneland in his previous start.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A couple of rising stars in the handicap division, stablemates Disco Time and Tappan Street, will square off against classy, older veterans White Abarrio, his barn mate Skippylongstocking, and 2024 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Full Serrano when a full field of 12 goes 1 1/8 miles Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the 10th running of the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational.

La Cara will likely roll out new tactics on Saturday, when the multiple Grade 1 winner launches her 4-year-old season against stakes winners Standoutsensation, Take Charge Milady, Queen Azteca, and Too Much Kiki in the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic at Sam Houston Race Park.

“That’s a good race,” said Mark Casse, who trains La Cara.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Difficult trips in their last races didn’t dampen the enthusiasm trainers Chad Brown and Graham Motion have for their respective runners Program Trading and Test Score.

Both horsemen will be looking for a little better racing luck when Program Trading and Test Score head a competitive field of 12 entered in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. This is the eighth running of this race under this moniker; the race was previously run as the Gulfstream Park Turf.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The wide-open nature of Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park is best demonstrated in the morning line, where the favorite, Whiskey Decision, is 9-2 and eight of the 14 entrants are pegged at either 8-1 or 12-1.

Yaupon dominated the freshman sire list in 2025 by more than a million-dollar margin, becoming the fourth consecutive leading freshman sire for Spendthrift Farm. His task in 2026 will be to keep rolling, as the farm’s other recent young sires have done, with a pair of classmates behind him appearing poised to hit their best stride.

Khozan continued to dominate Florida’s sires by earnings in 2025, but those following him on the earnings list held their own in some other metrics.

Khozan, who stands at Ocala Stud, led Florida’s first-crop and 2-year-old sire lists in 2019 and has led the state’s general sires for six consecutive years since. In 2025, he sired 121 winners from 216 individual runners – a 56 percent strike rate – and his progeny earned $6,291,875.

He’s an Indiana-bred who was a multiple graded stakes winner in Kentucky while racing worldwide. His current runners were conceived while he was standing in Florida. His best performer to date is a New Jersey-bred. And along the way, he’s become the profile of the type of stallion who’s valued in the rising New York market.

A new breeding season and a move to a different state may revive the career of the stallion Straight Fire.

Straight Fire, a 12-year-old by Dominus, will stand at Blue Ribbon Farm in Buckley, Wash., for the first time this year after fading from prominence in California. The sire of four stakes winners, Straight Fire was bred to 61 mares in 2022, according to Jockey Club statistics. The figure fell to 41 in 2023, 12 in 2024, and only three last year. In California, Straight Fire stood at Legacy Ranch in Clements.

Into Mischief and Not This Time were the top two sires in North America for 2025, both recording historic accomplishments. But their story doesn’t just play out over the 12 calendar months of that year. Like many bloodstock stories, their successes, establishing their own branches of a prominent sireline, stretch back over several decades and generations. And, like many stories, their sireline was touched by the late, great D.