Comparisons between the racing and stud careers of the late Giant’s Causeway and Declaration of War are inevitable. Both won Group 1’s at a mile and 1 ¼ miles in Europe, and then ended their racing careers with wholly honorable narrow defeats in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Champion Will Take Charge was represented by his first winner in stylish fashion, as Tijori led throughout for a 3 1/4-length debut victory at Santa Anita on Friday.

The filly was given a Beyer Speed Figure of 77, the top number this year for a 2-year-old of either sex.

Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Wuheida has been retired and will enter the broodmare band of owner-breeder Godolphin.

Hall of Fame racemare Zenyatta's run of bad luck as a broodmare continues, as the mare will not have a foal in 2018 after aborting her pregnancy to the cover of successful sire Into Mischief.

Liz Crow was an unknown commodity when she signed the $100,000 ticket as agent on Monomoy Girl at the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale, so much so that the auction company’s bookkeepers had to have a word with her after the fall of the hammer.

Afleet Again, the longshot winner of the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Marathon, died in Korea on April 12 after a bout of colic. He was 11.

The cause of death was originally reported by Alastair Middleton, the Korean Racing Authority’s English-language racecaller, on his website “Horse Racing in Korea.”

Afleet Again, a son of Afleet Alex, was bred in Kentucky by Chuck Zacney’s Roll Z Dice Racing Stable and he raced under Zacney’s nom-de-course Cash is King for his first two and a half seasons. Robert Reid Jr. trained Afleet Again throughout his career.

The stallion career of the late Scat Daddy arguably reached its pinnacle on Kentucky Derby Day, with Derby winner Justify highlighting his four sons entered in the race. His résumé was further bolstered last Friday when his daughters filled out two-thirds of the trifecta in the Grade 3 Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Air France, dam of Grade 2 winners Smooth Air and Overdriven, was euthanized May 2 due to complications from foaling. She was 19.

According to a press release from Crestwood Farm, the mare’s newborn Bernardini colt is in good health and has been transferred to a nurse mare at the Lexington, Ky., farm, where Air France spent the majority of her broodmare career.

The Kentucky Oaks undercard at Churchill Downs featured two milestone graded stakes wins for under-the-radar sires in Country Day and Tizway.

Backyard Heaven’s win in the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes was the first graded winner for his sire, Tizway, who now resides in South Korea.

Spendthrift Farm resident Into Mischief’s stock continued to rise over the Kentucky Derby weekend, with a slate of successful 3-year-old runners at Churchill Downs.