Tom Law

Lexington is flying high these days, in large part with its beloved and unbeaten University of Kentucky men’s basketball team riding a 31-game win streak into the upcoming SEC and NCAA tournaments. The city was abuzz again for a different reason this week. It had nothing to do with the Wildcats, as a majority of the allotted tickets available to the general public for the first Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland were sold out and many between lunchtime and the evening commute that first day.

Wicked winter weather continued to wreak havoc in North America last weekend, wiping out black-type events from Hot Springs, Ark., to South Florida. But neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night could keep Tiznow from enjoying a fine weekend.

Gulfstream was washed out and Oaklawn was frozen out, turning an even lighter day of racing around the country into an even slower day. Thankfully the show went on overseas and away from most of the East Coast as February came to a close during the never-ending winter of 2015.

Some of North America’s stalwart stallions and other up-and coming second-crop sires were in the headlines again last weekend.

Mike Penna and the team at Horse Racing Radio caught up with trainer Graham Motion last weekend before Main Sequence opened defense of his champion turf male crown with a victory in the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

A little more than a month removed from receiving the Eclipse Award for writing, ST Publishing’s Joe Clancy will receive the Touch of Class Award from the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Maryland Horse Industry Board.

Somewhat lost in the hullabaloo of last weekend’s Kentucky Derby prep races and the return of champion Main Sequence in Florida was a victory on the other side of the globe in a  rich race in the burgeoning racing nation of Singapore by an American expatriate