BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Spa City, winner of a highly rated maiden race on Feb. 8 at Gulfstream Park, is heading to stakes competition next, with the Tampa Bay Derby on March 7 his target. He had his final work for that race Friday morning here at the Palm Meadows training center, when he went five furlongs in 1:00.85 under exercise rider Rob Massey.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Kazushi Kimura, the 2019 Eclipse Award winner for outstanding apprentice, had his first winner in the United States when guiding Pink Lemonade to an 11-1 victory in the last race Thursday at Gulfstream.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sharing, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last fall, could make her 3-year-old debut in May while prepping for a possible start at Royal Ascot, trainer Graham Motion said this week.

Motion said Sharing could return to action either in the Edgewood on the May 1 Kentucky Oaks undercard at Churchill Downs or the Hilltop Stakes on May 15 during Preakness week at Pimlico.

“I might be able to bring her back at Keeneland, but more likely one of those later races,” he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita is launching a cash bonus for the final four months of its current winter-spring meeting designed to keep horses that have raced at the track since late December from leaving for other circuits.

This is the second cash incentive program announced within a week designed to improve field size.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland and Churchill Downs will require veterinarians to sign off on the racing soundness of horses prior to workouts and races beginning with the meets the two tracks will stage this year, the tracks announced on Thursday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – United, second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita in November, and Tizamagician, fourth in the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes on Feb. 1, are on schedule for stakes on the Dubai World Cup program in the United Arab Emirates on March 28, trainer Richard Mandella said on Thursday.

United worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 at Santa Anita on Thursday, his second workout since his first career stakes win in the Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf on Feb. 1.

“He seems better than ever,” Mandella said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The new Golden Hour Double that links the final races at Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields in a $5 daily double starts on Saturday with two competitive fields.

The bet, which will be held each racing day, has a reduced takeout of 15 percent, down from 20 percent for a typical daily double, and a pool guaranteed to reach $50,000 by The Stronach Group, the parent company of both tracks.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – When trainer Todd Pletcher elected not to ship American Tattoo up from Florida it made for a wide-open second renewal of the $100,000 Bernardini Stakes, to be run Saturday at Aqueduct.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Tiz the Law, the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, missed a couple of works this month after he sprung a shoe, but should be back on the work tab no later than Monday, trainer Barclay Tagg said Thursday at the Palm Meadows training center, where he is based this winter.

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The spring meet at Churchill Downs, which is, of course, highlighted by the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May, will feature a new placement for the Stephen Foster Stakes and the creation of several new stakes, the Louisville track announced on Thursday.

In total, the 38-day spring meet will include 41 stakes worth a record $14 million. The meet runs from April 25 through June 27.