Shadwell Stable’s 2006 Horse of the Year Invasor shoulders top weight of 123 pounds as the 6-to-5 morning line favorite in his long-awaited return in Saturday’s $500,000 Donn Handicap (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park. The Donn highlights an outstanding program that includes five other graded stakes events.

John A. Bell III, the prominent Thoroughbred owner-breeder who founded Jonabell Farm and was involved in the American Horse Council, has died at 88.

Bell died Wednesday evening at St. Joseph Hospital Hospice in Lexington after battling pulmonary fibrosis.

He sold Jonabell Farm, best known as the final home and resting place of Triple Crown winner Affirmed, in 2001 to Sheikh Mohammed.

Raised on a farm near Pittsburgh, Bell used the proceeds from the sale of a litter of pigs to buy his first mare. He founded Jonabell Farm in Fayette County in 1954.

Gulfstream Park has established the Barbaro Foundation, which will oversee an annual scholarship program for future veterinarians.Details of the foundation and its scholarship program will be released at a later date, Gulfstream Park General Manager Bill Murphy said.

Trainer Jeff Mullins sent out his 1,000th career winner on Sunday at Santa Anita Park when Gregory Unruh’s A Shore Thing scored a three-length victory in the first race. Mullins began his training career at age 17 when he took a string of horses to Les Bois Park in Idaho and conditioned them under his father’s name for several years. His success as a trainer began at Turf Paradise in Arizona prior to a move to California.

Barbaro's final resting place could be just a few hundred yards from the scene of his greatest triumph in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).

Officials at the Kentucky Derby Museum, located on the grounds of Churchill Downs, said Tuesday they'd be "honored" if Barbaro were buried in a garden along with four other Derby winners.

"We've expressed to them how honored we'd be to have Barbaro here," Lynn Ashton, executive director of the museum, said. "We feel like we're bringing horses back to be honored."

Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his breakdown at the Preakness last May.
  
"We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain," co-owner Roy Jackson said. "It was the right decision, it was the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him then it would be time."