Luis Yamil Marcano, who won 52 races as an apprentice jockey in 2023, died on Sunday night after being involved in a two-vehicle collision in his native Puerto Rico, according to multiple reports. Marcano was 19.

Marcano, who finished eighth in the standings at Belterra Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2023, was riding a motorcycle in San Juan on Sunday night when he was hit by a pickup truck, according to Puerto Rico newspapers. The driver of the truck fled the scene. Marcano died of his injuries.

John Moynihan, bloodstock adviser to Stonestreet Farm, trainer Philip Bauer, who is coming off a career year, and Thoroughbred owner Richard Rigney were among those who escaped serious injury in a plane crash in Australia on Monday.

The sprinter Big City Lights won for the first time in 17 months in an allowance race at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita on Saturday that was likely a prep for the 5-year-old’s graded stakes debut next month.

Trainer Richard Mandella said on Sunday that Big City Lights may return in the Grade 3 Palos Verdes Stakes, a $100,000 race at six furlongs on Feb. 10.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Of the 30 flat horses that are finalists for the 2023 Eclipse Awards in age or surface categories, only the 3-year-old colt Muth is based in California.

Muth was the star 2-year-old of 2023 on the West Coast, winning the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita in October, and finishing second by 6 1/4 lengths to Fierceness in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November.

Fierceness, based on the East Coast, is widely expected to be named champion 2-year-old male of 2023.

The Grade 1-winning 8-year-old gelding Two Emmys was euthanized after breaking his leg during a workout Sunday morning at Fair Grounds. 

Trainer and principal owner Hugh Robertson confirmed that Two Emmys had been put down after falling near the finish line at the end of his first timed workout since the gelding won the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes on Dec. 23, his first start since February. 

Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., canceled Sunday's program after the first race to allow more time for maintenance on the racing surface, the track announced.

Oaklawn had “suspended” morning training after the break Sunday for “track maintenance purposes” and had pushed back first post about an hour. The first race went off without incident. The horses were waiting to be saddled for the second race when officials sent them back to the stable area.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Ladies Stakes winner Comparative, like her Brad Cox-trained stablemate Drum Roll Please, will remain in New York and point to the $150,000 Heavenly Prize Invitational on Feb. 10, Cox said.

The Heavenly Prize represents a turnback to a one-turn mile from 1 1/8 miles, but Comparative did win a second-level allowance going a mile on Nov. 25, her first start off a six-month layoff. Since Comparative has had only two races since the spring, Cox wants to keep her going until he finds a suitable graded stakes opportunity down the road.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Joey Freshwater, winner of last year’s Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes, made a smart-looking return to the races on Saturday, winning a second-level allowance by 1 3/4 lengths at Aqueduct.

It was Joey Freshwater’s first win since the Bay Shore and his first start since he finished last in a sprint stakes at Parx Racing on Aug. 22, the 10th start of his 3-year-old campaign.

“After we ran him at Parx I called up [owner] Steve Sigler and said ‘I’m not bringing him home, I’m dropping him off at the clinic,’ ” trainer Linda Rice said. “He’s getting a vacation."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Last year, trainer Brad Cox used the New York series of 3-year-old races to get Hit Show to the Triple Crown, where he finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby and dead-heated for fourth in the Belmont Stakes.

Along the way, at Aqueduct, Hit Show won the Grade 3 Withers and was beaten a nose by longshot Lord Miles in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial.