The 2020-21 Aqueduct winter meet generated all-sources handle of $349,962,356, an increase of 17.2 percent over the 2019-20 winter meet, according to figures released Tuesday by the New York Racing Association.

Longtime Ontario owner-breeder Joan Agro passed away last Friday at 89.

Agro campaigned stakes-winning homebreds Sophia’s Prince and Michael’s Bad Boy at Woodbine.

Sophia’s Prince shattered the 6 1/2-furlong track record when taking the 2005 Shepperton Stakes, one of his 10 victories under the guidance of trainer John LeBlanc Jr. Michael’s Bad Boy won 14 races, most notably the 2009 Steady Growth Stakes for trainer Nick Gonzalez.

Agro was married for 68 years to Louis Agro, who shared her passion for horse racing.

Del Mar, which will play host to the Breeders’ Cup for the second time this November, received outstanding marks as one of the safest tracks in the country, according to the data released Monday by The Jockey Club’s Equine Injury Database.

Charles Fipke, Fatal Bullet, and Formal Gold are among the 2021 Thoroughbred nominees to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

A total of 18 people and horses, comprised of nine Thoroughbred and nine Standardbred candidates, have been selected to appear on the voting ballot. A 20-person election committee for each breed will determine the one individual to be inducted in each category, with the results to be announced April 13.

The three categories selected by the nominating committee for the 2021 Thoroughbred ballot are Builder, Male Horse, and Veteran Horse.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Keepmeinmind ran some of the best races of his career last year at Keeneland, and he will be returning to the track for the Grade 2, $800,000 Blue Grass, trainer Robertino Diodoro said Monday. The Kentucky Derby points race is Saturday.

Keepmeinmind is based at Oaklawn, where he also had been under consideration for the Arkansas Derby on April 10. Keepmeinmind worked here Saturday, going five-eighths in 1:00. Diodoro said shortly after the work that a decision had not yet been made on the horse’s next start, but he expected to have plans by Monday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mojo Man is being considered for a start in the Grade 3, $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn, trainer Jimmy DiVito said. The stakes is part of the Racing Festival of the South and runs April 10.

Mojo Man won a local allowance sprint in his last start Feb. 28, equaling his best Beyer Speed Figure of 95. He races for Arkansas resident Dash Goff.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Capo Kane will make his fourth consecutive trip to Aqueduct when he runs in the Wood Memorial. Capo Kane won the Jerome on New Year’s Day, finished third in the Grade 3 Withers, and was sixth in the Grade 3 Gotham.

Trainer Harold Wyner said he wants Capo Kane to be forwardly placed and to help achieve that objective he will add blinkers to the son of Street Sense for the Wood.

“He’s a forwardly placed horse, he needs to be out there and set his own pace and run his race,” Wyner said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – It will be 119 days between starts for Brooklyn Strong when he makes his 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, but his trainer, Danny Velazquez, couldn’t be more confident in his gelding’s chances for success.

“In my head, I’m going in for the kill, I’m not even thinking of losing,” Velazquez said by phone from Parx Racing where he is based. “I’m very confident, extremely confident in my horse. I see him doing everything I want him to do.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Parnelli will have new rider and new equipment as he tries to reverse his recent form when he starts as a longshot in the Grade 1, $750,000 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby on Saturday.

Parnelli worked five furlongs on Monday morning at Santa Anita in a sharp 59.40 seconds under Edwin Maldonado, who will ride Parnelli for the first time in the Santa Anita Derby. Parnelli has been working in blinkers in his recent drills and will race in them for the first time Saturday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Honor Way ended her 6-year-old season in career-best form with stakes wins in the Pumpkin Pie and Garland of Roses.

After suffering a bruised foot while training toward the Interborough in January, trainer Charlton Baker opted to give her the winter off.

Friday, Honor Way will make her 7-year-old debut in the Grade 3, $150,000 Distaff Handicap. Honor Way drew the rail in a field of five that includes Paris Lights, who is making her first start since winning the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks last July at Saratoga.