Tonalist retired; Green Mask questionable for HK Sprint

Top older horse Tonalist, winner of the recent Cigar Mile H. (G1) in his career
finale, has been retired. The four-year-old son of Tapit will stand the 2016
season at Lane’s End Farm for a $40,000 stud fee.

A foot bruise has put Green Mask’s participation in Sunday’s Hong Kong Sprint
(HK-G1) at Sha Tin in doubt. The Wesley Ward trainee worked about a
half-mile in :47.3 on Monday but exited the move with the injury.

Gulfstream Park will offer a quartet of stakes races this Saturday. The
Rampart (G3) is the first graded event of the Championship meet, and a pair of
quality fields has been assembled for the Harlan’s Holiday and El Prado.

Los Alamitos hosts the final 2015 Road to the Kentucky Oaks contest on Saturday
when nine fillies line up in the $300,000 Starlet S. (G1).

TwinSpires.com has put together its list of the

Top 10 U.S. racing performances of 2015.

Triple Crown champion American Pharoah has been selected to receive the 2015
Secretariat Vox Populi Award.

TwinSpires.com has partnered with Fair Grounds to sponsor the Louisiana
Derby (G2) and Fair Grounds Oaks (G2).

John Mucciolo discusses the opening week in his Los Alamitos Notebook and

tabs a Todd Pletcher trainee as one of his Horses to Watch in the Aqueduct
Notebook.