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IN THIS ISSUE: Sustaining excellence— Claude ʻʻShugʼʼ McGaughey III Bill Heller takes us into the world of Shug, who made it into the Hall of Fame and continues to succeed. His horses have earned more than $2 million for 37 straight years. A safer Santa Anita Ken Snyder investigates how the on-track vets and trainers made a positive difference in 2020 with zero fatalities. From the ground up Annie Lambert profiles trainer Michael McCarthy who has quietly worked his way up the training ranks. The winning trainer of the Pegasus World Cup now has sights on success in the Preakness Stakes with Rombauer. Recruiting runners Bill Heller examines how racing secretaries are working diligently to recruit horses, a task made significantly more difficult by the ongoing pandemic. Can we use biomarkers to predict catastrophic racing injuries? Holly Wiemers presents The University of Kentucky study, which gives the answers about the association between mRNA biomarkers and catastrophic injuries in Thoroughbred racehorses - a positive step forward in the development of a pre-race screening tool. Triple Crown trail winning owners Bill Heller profiles Jonathan & Leonard Green (Helium), Roadrunner Racing, Boat Racing and Bill Strauss (Hot Rod Charlie), Mark, Stacy and Bob Krembil (Weyburn). Small but mighty Catherine Rudenko examines the role of antioxidants for horses in training. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act Peter J. Sacopulos reviews, analyzes and shares the concerns about putting into place national legislation that governs Thoroughbred racing. Saddle and half pads Russell MacKechnie-Guire explains the effect that pads, when used beneath the saddle, have on race saddle pressures and gallop kinematics. Roarers Safia Barakzai is looking into the impacts and outcomes of Roarers—surgery for recurrent laryngeal neuropathy.