OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There’s been a lot of streaking going on at Aqueduct this winter.

Aside from the seven- and six-race win streaks put together recently by trainers Linda Rice and Rob Atras, respectively, several horses this winter have put together some impressive runs of their own.

The New York-bred stakes ranks, which have thinned out some, looks to have received an influx of talented runners this winter in the form of Today’s Flavor, Dr Ardito, Ouster, and Overstep, who have combined to win 15 of their last 16 starts.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita plans to race on Friday, April 21, as a makeup day for rain-related cancellations earlier this year, track officials said over the weekend.

The track did not have April 21 on its original calendar for the winter-spring meeting.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – Accompanied by his family, Javier Castellano was honored with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in a brief ceremony between races at Santa Anita on Sunday.

A member of racing’s Hall of Fame and a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding rider, from 2013 to 2016, Castellano was recognized with an award first introduced in 1950 to recognize career achievement and personal character. The award is based on a nationwide vote of jockeys.

“It’s truly an honor to be here,” Castellano said. “It’s an amazing award.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Princess Bettina’s stakes win at Santa Anita on Saturday came at a good time for veteran California trainer Peter Eurton.

A 3-year-old filly who races for owner and breeder Don Dizney, Princess Bettina led throughout the China Doll Stakes to give Eurton his first stakes win since last March at Sunland Park and his first stakes win at Santa Anita since Storm the Court won the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

“The stakes have been avoiding us,” Eurton said on Sunday. “We didn’t have the right horses.”

One of the standout horses at the Tampa meet has been Smart as Me, a 4-year-old colt who won again Saturday for co-owner and trainer Craig R. Smith. From six starts, Smart as Me has closed from far back to finish first four times (and was disqualified from one of those wins), with his latest victory coming in a first-level allowance going a mile on the turf.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Life Is Good was the star of Meydan morning training in the days leading to the 2022 World Cup. He finished fourth when it counted in the race itself, while the horse who had turned roughly zero heads during training hours, Country Grammer, was the star of the $12 million World Cup.

Nothing as bright as Life Is Good lit up the Dubai darkness Monday morning, when Country Grammer, probably looking better than he did a year ago, put in his final breeze before trying to win his second World Cup here Saturday.