On the morning of Jan. 29, Dr. Dean W. Richardson, head of surgery at New Bolton Medical Center, made the somber announcement most everyone had been prepared to hear more than eight months earlier. Barbaro had been euthanized. The wave of grief that was anticipated back then now came swiftly and unexpectedly.

The New York Racing Association will offer two twilight Friday racing cards at Saratoga Race Course during the Spa’s 36-day, 2007 season that begins on Wednesday, July 25. Last year, in an effort to add more excitement to closing weekend at Saratoga, NYRA moved the Woodward from Belmont Park to Saratoga for the final weekend.

Champion juvenile male Street Sense added to his accolades on Thursday when he received highweight honors on the 2006 Experimental Free Handicap released by the Jockey Club. Street Sense scored a ten-length victory in the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) on November 4 at Churchill Downs. With no other juvenile male scoring more than one Grade 1 victory in 2006, that effort helped the Street Cry (Ire) colt secure a high weight assignment of 127 pounds.