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General Jim To Miss Fountain of Youth

General Jim (Into Mischief), third choice at 6-1 on the morning line for Saturday's GII Fountain of Youth S. at Gulfstream, will be scratched, reports trainer Shug McGaughey. The horse missed a day of training after developing a cough.

“He ran a little temperature,” McGaughey said. “It went right down and he is doing fine but I didn't feel right running in this race.”

McGaughey said that the colt will remain on the Kentucky Derby trail and should be ready to go in another prep within a few weeks.

“I will watch him and after the weekend will try to figure out what we want to do,” McGaughey said. “I don't know where he'll run next. I haven't gotten that far. The obvious choices are the [GI Curlin] Florida Derby, the [GII] Wood Memorial, the [GI Toyota] Blue Grass.”

General Jim is coming off a one-length win in the GIII Swale S. at seven furlongs.

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TIP Live Enrollment Ends Mar. 31

The enrollment deadline for the Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP)'s Live Foal Program in the province of Ontario is Mar. 31, 2023.

The program offers an incentive of $325 to the breeder of a registered Ontario-bred foal for the 2022 foaling year. To qualify for the incentive, a foal must be approved as a registered Ontario-bred by Mar. 31, 2023.

To qualify for Ontario-bred status, the dam must have been declared as an Ontario resident mare for the 2022 foaling year by completing the Ontario Resident Mare Declaration Form and meet all eligibility requirements with Ontario Racing. The foal must also be registered with The Jockey Club.

Click here to enroll a mare in the ORMP or here to register a foal with The Jockey Club.

For further questions, email tbprogram@ontarioracing.com.

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Uncle Mo Colt Gets Rising Star Nod at Fair Grounds

In a field including six first-time starters, Squire Creek (Uncle Mo) proved much the best, scampering home a six-length winner over the well-related 4-5 choice Wicked Again (Gun Runner) in the six-furlong contest at Fair Grounds Thursday. Off the blocks alertly, the 5-2 second choice vied for the early lead with the well-related Wicked Again through opening fractions of :21.65 and :44.92. Head-to-head with that rival turning for home, the $525,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga graduate edged ahead in early stretch and blasted clear late en route to an easy victory.

A half-sister to MGSW & GISP Commissioner (A.P. Indy) and GSW & GISP Laugh Track (Distorted Humor), Covenant is also a half to Mythical Bride (Street Cry {Ire}), the dam of champion older horse and GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso (Curlin). The 9-year-old mare was barren in 2021 but foaled a Constitution colt the following season and was bred back to Curlin.

8th-Fair Grounds, $50,000, Msw, 3-2, 3yo, 6f, 1:10.05, ft, 6 1/4 lengths.
SQUIRE CREEK, c, 3, Uncle Mo
1st Dam: Covenant, by Speightstown
2nd Dam: Flaming Heart, by Touch Gold
3rd Dam: Hot Lear, by Lear Fan
Sales history: $525,000 Ylg '21 FTSAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $30,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-WinStar Farm LLC, Twin Creeks Racing Stables, LLC, 4 G Racing, LLC and Ronald Ortyl; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

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Veteran Trainer Bill Spawr Retires

Bill Spawr, 83, announced his retirement and disbanded his stable after a 46-year career as a public trainer. According to the Santa Anita media team, Spawr was a star running back at Downey High School who got hooked on racing while working as a part time clerk in a local liquor store that served up Daily Racing Form and gravitated to the racetrack full-time at age 23. He spent 14 years as a veterinarian assistant before opening a public stable in 1977.

With 1,709 career wins, Spawr captured two Winter/Spring training titles at Santa Anita, in 1991 and 1996, two titles at the track's Oak Tree Meeting, in 2000 and 2001, as well as a pair of summer titles at Del Mar, in 1990 and 1994.

Among his many successful claims was Sensational Star, who Spawr claimed for $32,000 on Aug. 7, 1988. Ridden primarily by Rafael Meza, Sensational Star would go on to win three stakes and bank more than $440,000. Exchange, a $50,000 claim in 1991, went on to win the GI Santa Ana and Santa Barbara H. in 1993, as well as the GI Matriarch S. in 1994 and earned more than $1.2 million.

The highlight of Spawr's career came with Amazombie, with whom Spawr and co-owner Tom Sanford won the 2011 Breeders' Cup Sprint.

“Right now, I'm going to take a deep breath,” Spawr said of immediate plans. “I'm gonna be very active. I own small pieces of a couple of horses…I'll be out there in the morning. I need something to do, I've had a couple of my owners ask me to keep an eye out for horses to claim, so I'll keep my leg markings going…I don't want any money for it, I just want something to do.”

Asked how he would like to be remembered, Spawr said, “As a good horseman. As a guy that really cared about the horses, first.”

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