LEXINGTON, Ky. - Victory in the $6 million Dubai World Cup has made Electrocutionist among the highest-profile horses in the world, and he wasn't unknown before his success on Saturday. A winner in eight of his 10 starts, Electrocutionist is the latest star for former leading freshman sire Red Ransom.

With a City, a Kentucky Derby candidate who lit up the tote board with his come-from-behind victory in the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes at Turfway last week, is, according to his breeder, a "mistake in judgment" who made good.

"He was always a promising colt," said Carl Bowling, owner of Straightaway Farm in Ocala, Fla., who bred With a City and sold him at last year's Ocala Breeders' Sales March sale of 2-year-olds in training for $27,000. "The mistake I made was sending him along with my other sales horses to Texas for sales prep and training."

ARCADIA, Calif. - The moments surrounding Proud Tower Too's win in the $2 million Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai on March 25 remain a bit fuzzy for trainer Sal Gonzalez.

"I don't remember the race, but I remember him hitting the wire," he said. "I couldn't see very well where we were sitting, on the fourth floor."

The ebullient Gonzalez, who is originally from Mexico, wore an ear-to-ear grin after the race. He stood at the colt's side in the track's tiny winner's circle, shouting, "All right Dubai. Viva Mexico!"

Lawrence Goichman favors turf horses, and he has bred a very good one in J'ray, a 3-year-old New York-bred filly who is unbeaten in four starts on the surface.

A daughter of Distant View out of the mare Bubbling Heights, by Darshaan, J'Ray has won the Jessamine Stakes, Selima Stakes, and Tropical Park Oaks in succession, and is being readied for the Appalachian Stakes at Keeneland on April 23 by trainer Todd Pletcher.

Woodbine will celebrate its 50th anniversary this season, but there is another important group in Canadian racing that is also in a milestone year.

One hundred years ago, on May 29, 1906, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society was incorporated under the Animal Pedigree Act.

The mandate read that the society was formed to "keep a record of pedigrees of Thoroughbred horses and to collect, publish, and preserve reliable and valuable data concerning the breed."

Don Dean is a spiritual man who has interwoven a passion for horse racing with a cause for helping others. So it wasn't surprising that Dean, the former president of the Race Track Chaplaincy of America, was attending the Race Track Chaplaincy's annual meeting in Houston, Tex., on the day of his biggest score as a breeder.

LAS VEGAS - The Flamingo Stakes and Florida Derby were two of the most important prep races for the Triple Crown for the last 50 years, but the demise of the once-exquisite Hialeah Park made the Flamingo a footnote in racing's history.

With Gulfstream Park emerging as Florida's premier racing facility, the Florida Derby was the track's centerpiece and its date on the calendar, around mid-March - seven or eight weeks from the Derby - made it the first major prep race at 1 1/8 miles.

Four juveniles by New York sire Prime Timber averaged $103,750 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s select 2-year-old sale last Tuesday and Wednesday.

The figure is nearly 30 times the stud fee of $3,500 for Prime Timber, a son of Sultry Song who stands at Sez Who Thoroughbreds North in Stillwater, N.Y.

In 2005, Prime Timber's 42 juveniles sold at auction averaged $43,702.

It was a vintage week for Florida's Thoroughbred community. The Ocala 2-year-old sales market produced records at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. sale, while the Adena Springs auction was "satisfying," according to the farm's owner, Frank Stronach.

The Florida Thoroughbred Charities gala and auction hosted by Charlotte Weber at her Live Oak Stud raised more than $110,000. At the Adena Springs sale, a $20-per-head buffet and cash bar raised an additional $20,000-plus for charity.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - With his victory in the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita, A. P. Warrior took a significant step in justifying his seven-figure auction price and the great expectations associated with his past performances, which included a second to Brother Derek in the Norfolk Stakes last fall.