Fort Erie kicks off its 2021 meet Tuesday with a massive 12-race card that has 105 entries and a special post time of 3 p.m. The 42-day meet goes until Oct. 26, racing on a Monday-Tuesday schedule at the Ontario track.

Post time for Monday racing is 1 p.m., and Tuesday twilight cards begin at 4 p.m. For the second year in a row, the meet will begin without spectators due to continuing COVID-19 restrictions.

The terrific opening-day program includes two lucrative “Cup” races, a pair of $30,000 maiden stakes: the Sprint into Summer, and the Summer Solstice Cup.

Karl Broberg won five races Friday in a feat that helped him reach a milestone of 4,000 training wins – and then surpassed it to end the day at 4,001 career victories.

Broberg, a 50-year-old native of Chicago, has trained for about 12 years. He saddled his first winner on Nov. 7, 2009 at Retama Park.

“I think it goes without saying that it’s the fastest anybody [has] ever done it,” Broberg said of the 4,000 wins, “especially factoring in how much smaller foal crops are now than they were years ago.

Matt Vance has been promoted to executive vice president of both Remington Park in Oklahoma City and Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, according to a Friday press release from Global Gaming Solutions, the parent company of both tracks.

Vance will oversee racing operations, mutuels, simulcasting and track maintenance at the facilities. He has been the vice president of racing operations at Remington since 2015. Vance launched his more than 35-year tenure in the racing industry in 1986 at Louisiana Downs.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Kentucky circuit court judge at a hearing on Friday morning urged attorneys for the connections of Medina Spirit and for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to come to an agreement on how to divide up a split sample of the colt’s Kentucky Derby urine sample by Wednesday, when he said he would issue a ruling in the matter if they had not reached a settlement.

A court in Schenectady, N.Y., has granted a request by the trainer Linda Rice for a temporary injunction that will allow her to continue to train as she appeals the license revocation that was made official by New York regulators earlier this week, according to her attorney.

Andrew Turro, the attorney, said that the County of Schenectady Supreme Court approved the request early Wednesday afternoon, two days after the New York Gaming Commission issued the order to revoke Rice’s license and deny her access to racetracks in the state.

The trainer Bob Baffert and the owner Amr Zedan have filed a lawsuit asking a court to compel Kentucky regulators to allow testing of a urine sample collected from Medina Spirit after the Kentucky Derby, according to court records.

Linda Rice, the New York-based trainer whose license was officially revoked by state regulators on Monday, filed a request for a stay of the penalty in Schenectady Supreme Court on Monday night, according to her attorney.

Andrew Turro, the attorney, said on Tuesday morning that he hopes to have a hearing on the request for an emergency stay and preliminary injunction on Wednesday. Under the order of the license revocation, Rice is barred from participating “directly or indirectly” in any racing-related activity, and she is not allowed on the grounds of any New York racetracks.

Sarah Izhaki, one of the 27 defendants indicted in March of last year after a wide-ranging investigation into the use of illegal pharmaceuticals in horse racing, will avoid prison time in a sentence handed down on Monday after entering a guilty plea on charges related to unlawfully distributing adulterated and mis-branded drugs.

Rick Porter, who campaigned three Eclipse Award-winning horses, including 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, has died, according to Fox Hill Farm, his racing operation. Porter, who was diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago, was 80.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Essential Quality was the champion 2-year-old of 2020 based on a perfect 3-for-3 campaign that ended with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. After his triumph in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, Essential Quality will head into the second half of 2021 as the leader of the 3-year-old division, with several important races yet to be run.

“That would be huge,” Brad Cox, the trainer of Essential Quality said Sunday morning about a divisional championship. “I’d say that list is pretty short in recent years that were champions at 2 and 3. Obviously, that’s the goal.”