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Dance to Bristol lived up to her 3-5 odds with a powerful 4 3/4-length victory in Friday’s $100,000 Skipat Stakes at Pimlico. It was the fourth consecutive win for Dance to Bristol, who was coming off a nine-length score in the $200,000 Sugar Maple ...

Craig Dado, an executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, was elected to the board of directors of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association at a board meeting Friday in Baltimore, the NTRA announced.

Centre Court, arguably the top filly-mare turf runner in North America, has thrived since posting her third straight victory last month at Keeneland and is “very much on target” for her next start in the Grade 1 Just A Game on the June 8 Belmont Stakes ...

It’s been a long process, but the 65-day River Downs-at-Beulah Park meet opens Sunday.

Funfair, who won both of her juvenile turf sprints impressively, makes her seasonal debut against seven rival 3-year-old fillies in Sunday’s $85,000 Miss Otis overnight stakes, a six-furlong race scheduled for the inner turf.

Sunday’s Group 2 Italian Derby at Capannelle Racecourse may go to top Italian trainer Stefano Botti by default. He trains five of the 12 runners in the race.

Jaime Gomez trains She Forgives and Docs First Fire for the Dutch Masters III partnership. Together, Gomez and Dutch Masters have combined to win the Kindergarten Futurity at Los Alamitos four times.

Trainer Cindy Krasner has treated Wando Woman like a 2-year-old while preparing her for her first start as 6-year-old mare. The reason for the all-inclusive training regimen is that following Wando Woman’s third-place finish in the Delta Coleen last ...

Mary Russ-Tortora won one for her sister Friday at Pimlico Race Course as she guided Haywired to a half-length victory in the fourth race, the Lady Legends for the Cure IV.

Dance the Wind has found a nice spot to follow up her smart win in a first-level allowance race April 28. There is a plethora of speed to set up her strong late kick in a $35,000 optional claimer for fillies and mares that will serve as Sunday’s ...

Rather than run in the Kentucky Oaks, Iotapa stayed home to prepare for the $70,000 Railbird Stakes on Sunday at Betfair Hollywood Park. Iotapa, whose recent works over the track have been sharp, is the horse to beat.

Dale Romans does not dispute that if someone had cut him a deal a long time ago – that if in one glorious year his horses were to win 20 graded stakes and nearly $12 million and he would be voted the Eclipse Award for top trainer – then, yes, he would ...

Coffee Clique and Overheard, both coming off solid efforts in turf stakes in the United States, deserve serious attention in a solid field for Sunday’s Selene Stakes at Woodbine.

Harley Hoppe, a Washington-based Thoroughbred owner, businessman and politician, died May 13 in his home on Mercer Island, Wash., according to an obituary in the Seattle Times. He was 82 years old.

Some of the first-level allowance races held so far at the Churchill Downs spring meet have been thin, both in numbers and talent. Happily for horseplayers, the exact opposite is the case with a $52,000 sprint that goes as the ninth of 10 Sunday races.

Pyramid Peak, a multiple graded stakes winner and sire, was humanely euthanized on May 17 at Nuckols Farm in Midway, Ky., due to the infirmities of old age. The Mt. Livermore horse was 21.

Spring Venture will try to build her case for this year’s champion 3-year-old filly in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Selene Stakes.

Grade 1 winner and freshman sire Square Eddie was represented by his first winner Thursday at Hollywood Park, as the 2-year-old filly Sprouts romped to a 5 1/2-length win in a maiden special weight event.

In this latest edition of Jeremy Plonk's Countdown to the Crown, he analyzes the field for the 138th Preakness.