Sharp Samurai, a five-time stakes winner who was third behind Knicks Go in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland in November, has been retired from racing. Trainer Mark Glatt said over the weekend that Sharp Samurai will be sent to an equine retirement home.

Owned by Rancho Temescal, Red Baron’s Barn, and Glatt, Sharp Samurai won 8 of 23 starts and earned $1,111,270. The BC Dirt Mile was his final start. Sharp Samurai was scratched from the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita.

In the last six years, owners Pete and Kosta Hronis and trainer John Sadler have teamed to win Grade 1 races with Combatant, Gift Box, Hard Aces, and Higher Power, all purchased as horses of racing age.

Their most recent acquisition is Growth Engine, a 5-year-old Tapit gelding who is scheduled to have his California debut in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita. Flavien Prat is booked to ride Growth Engine, Sadler said in a text message Sunday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Knicks Go wasn’t the only horse to generate plenty of buzz here on Pegasus World Cup Day. Several hours earlier, trainer Brendan Walsh sent out the Godolphin homebred Prevalence to capture his career debut in spectacular fashion, winning off by 8 1/2 lengths. The 3-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro covered seven furlongs in 1:23.00 and earned an 89 Beyer Speed Figure.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Thursday’s card will have back-to-back starter allowances as features. Dale Romans will send out Storm Runner as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in race 8, a $34,000 starter going a one-turn mile, while Payntdembluesaway is the 7-5 program choice for trainer Jane Cibelli in race 9, a $31,000 starter for filly-mare turf sprinters.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Points races for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks are the highlights of the coming weekend at Gulfstream, with the Holy Bull and Forward Gal anchoring a busy Saturday program spotlighting 3-year-olds.

Sittin On Go, winner of the Grade 3 Iroquois on the 2020 Kentucky Derby undercard, will make his seasonal debut in the Grade 3, $200,000 Holy Bull, a 1 1/16-mile race offering Derby points on a 10-4-2-1 basis. The Brody’s Cause colt had his fifth breeze since a short layoff, going five furlongs here Saturday in 1:01.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, May 1, has been pinpointed as a target for Colonel Liam, whose victory as the favorite Saturday in the Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park suddenly finds the colt as a major player in the North American older turf-horse division.

“We don’t have a firm plan just yet,” said Todd Pletcher, who trains Colonel Liam for Robert and Lawana Low. “The question is what we’ll do with him between now and the Derby Day race.”

Antonio Gallardo is nearing the 2,000-win milestone after riding two winners Sunday. Gallardo enters this week with 1,997 wins, with 834 of those having come at Tampa.

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Nominations have been released for Festival Preview Day at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 6, when the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis is foremost among the four stakes to be run that day at the Oldsmar, Fla., track.

Most of the 37 3-year-olds nominated to the $200,000 Sam Davis have done little more than get through their maiden condition. Still, it’s a Kentucky Derby points qualifier (10-4-2-1) that should serve as a breakthrough for the winner.

Fort Erie Racetrack has announced the 86^th running of the Prince of Wales Stakes has been scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 14, with a first race post time of 1 p.m.

A 1 3/16-mile dirt route for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, the $400,000 Prince of Wales is the track’s signature race and the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. It will follow the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine Aug. 22, with the Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine, the anchor leg, in the fall.

The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, closed as a solid favorite over Life Is Good after three days of betting into Pool 2 of the 2021 Kentucky Derby Future Wager. The pool opened Friday at noon Eastern and ran through 6 p.m. Sunday.

The field closed at 9-5, followed by Life Is Good (7-1), Essential Quality (8-1), Caddo River (13-1), Concert Tour (16-1), and Keepmeinmind (19-1). The lowest $2 exacta will-pay is Life Is Good over the field (24-5), worth $36.80.