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With one eye on a big prize and the other on the future, trainer Bill Mott returns Emollient to dirt in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.

Friday evening’s opening of the Canterbury Park meet begins the first full year of a cooperative marketing agreement between the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and the track. The impact of the $75 million, 10-year agreement is being felt from the ...

Trainer Bob Tiller should be holding a strong hand in Friday’s Woodbine feature, when he runs Born to Be Queen and Tequilamockingbird in the six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.

As Michelle Beadle's presence on NBC's Triple Crown telecast showed, traditionalists in racing often react harshly to outsiders.

If football legend Hornung can get lucky Saturday, he might find himself being asked to autograph quite a few racing programs after the Preakness. Hornung is a co-owner of Titletown Five, the cleverly named colt who will be ridden by Julien Leparoux ...

Popular jockey Rosie Napravnik has agreed to join the board of directors for the Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement group. The organization is based in Georgetown, Ky., with a satellite near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Pat Parente and Danny Vella both saddled their first stakes winners of the season here last weekend. Parente struck Saturday with Black Hornet in the Queenston, and Vella’s success came with Alpha Bettor in Sunday’s $200,000 Eclipse.

Summer of Fun, third in last fall's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, returned from a four-month layoff to win at Gulfstream Park on March 23, and takes an intermediate step on Friday at Pimlico in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Sensible Lady is back to defend her The Very One title Friday at Pimlico, and one thing seems sure: She will be a fraction of the 24-1 she was in this race last year.

Close It Out, who upset Bahamian Squall to capture the Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap here last fall, will top a field of 10 older sprinters in Saturday’s six-furlong Champali overnight stakes.

Tread, who is a nose from bringing a perfect record into the $100,000 Miss Preakness on Friday at Pimlico, has won two of her last three starts and will be making her stakes debut in the six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies

Though based in Maryland, Dance to Bristol makes her first appearance at Pimlico on Friday when she heads a field of seven fillies entered in the $100,000 Skipat Stakes at six furlongs.

Ben’s Cat has earned more than $1.4 million, and has won 20 of 30 starts, with turf sprints his specialty. Ben’s Cat will try to add to those totals on Friday at Pimlico, when he heads the field in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint over five furlongs.

How they leave the starting gate in Saturday’s feature race at Northlands Park will go a long way in determining the outcome of the six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares. Claresmiezie and Plethora have excellent speed, and if they hook up early in ...

Trainer David Fawkes used Calder’s Ponche Handicap and Grade 2 Smile Sprint to launch Big Drama’s championship campaign in 2010. Three years later, Fawkes is considering taking a similar path with his current sprint sensation Bahamian Squall.

There were no surprises at entry time at Pimlico on Wednesday, when nine were entered in Saturday's 138th Preakness Stakes, in which Kentucky Derby winner Orb will try to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive.

The Friday twilight program at Churchill Downs features three allowances, each with no huge favorite.

Derick Giwner's analysis of the Thursday 5/16 card at Yonkers Raceway.

Greg Gangle's analysis of the Thursday 5/16 card at Woodbine Harness.