Ride On Curlin recovered from a slow break, shot to the lead under Calvin Borel, and jetted to a 7 3/4-length victory in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight on Saturday at Ellis Park, setting a track record of 1:03 for the distance.

In a weekend dominated by turf graded stakes events, perhaps the most impressive performance came late Sunday, when Marketing Mix rolled to victory in the Grade 3 Sunset Handicap – her first race against males – during the closing-day card of Hollywood Park’s meet.

Mary Emily Marshall Taylor, the wife of the late central Kentucky horseman Joe Taylor and the mother of Taylor Made’s owners and operators, Duncan, Ben, Frank, and Mark Taylor, died Saturday. She was 85.

A native of Frankfort, Ky., Mary Emily Marshall married Joe Taylor in 1948. Joe Taylor began working at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., in 1952 and oversaw that farm’s growth into a prominent Thoroughbred breeding operation over the next four decades.

Chicks Dig It bested a maiden special weight field at Presque Isle Downs on July 14 to become the first winner sired by Grade 2 winner Old Fashioned.

The 2-year-old gelding won the 5 1/2 furlong race by a half-length, covering the distance in 1:05.84 over Presque Isle’s synthetic Tapeta Footings surface. He finished fourth in his debut at Presque Isle on June 26 for owner and trainer Ron Potts.

Sunday’s closing-day card at Belmont will include appearances by the 8-year-old Be Bullish and 10-year-old Gimme Credit, a pair of consistent New York-bred stakes winners who are well past their prime. One hopes they eventually find a suitable home when their racing days are over as did another New York-bred stakes-winning veteran, Wishful Tomcat.

Unlike Be Bullish and Gimme Credit, who are geldings, Wishful Tomcat is a horse and standing at stud at Homer Thoroughbreds in Burbank, Wash.

Grade 2-winning racemare Schiaparelli has been retired and will ship from her California base to become a broodmare in Kentucky, according to a release from owner RanJan Racing.

Multiple Grade 1 winner and pensioned stallion Sewickley died July 10 in Maryland due to complications of colic, the Blood-Horse reports. The son of Star de Naskra was 28.

Sewickley won 11 of 32 career starts, earning $1,017,517. He won back-to-back editions of the Grade 1 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont in 1989 and 1990. His 1989 campaign also included victories in the Grade 2 Fall Highweight Handicap and Grade 2 Tom Fool Handicap in New York, as well as the listed Commonwealth Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland.

Grade 1 winner The Deputy will relocate to Cedar Brook Farm in West Union, Ohio for the 2014 breeding season, standing for an advertised fee of $2,000.

The 16-year-old son of Petardia previously stood at Hubel Farms in Clare, Mich., where he had resided since the 2006 season. The Deputy will remain in Michigan until at least January 1 to adhere to the state’s stallion bonus award program, at which point ownership will be transferred to new owner Duane Howard, and the horse will move to Ohio.

Awesome Patriot, a stakes-winning full-brother to Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow, will begin stud duty in 2014 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.

Kentucky Derby winner and champion Animal Kingdom is preparing to travel to his new home in Australia, where local breeders will have their first opportunity to inspect him next month.