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Nu What's New turns on the speed to take Hanshin Stakes
The asset that won the Hanshin Stakes for Nu What’s New on Sunday at Churchill Downs is as old as American dirt racing – speed.
Marcus HershJun 28, 2026
The asset that won the Hanshin Stakes for Nu What’s New on Sunday at Churchill Downs is as old as American dirt racing – speed.
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Highway Harmony left her forever mark on Aqueduct in winning Sunday’s $150,000 John Hettinger Stakes for New York-bred females, running the six furlongs in a course-record 1:06.44 in the final stakes race to be run here.
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In a flying finish, Blessed Flyer was up by a head at the wire for a $65.82 upset in the 125th running of the $225,000 Bashford Manor, one of two stakes for 2-year-olds on Sunday's closing day of the spring-summer meet at Churchill Downs.
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Meilani gutted it out in the final furlong to land Sunday’s $101,000 Alywow Stakes while giving trainer Kevin Attard his fourth winner on the Woodbine card.
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Deep Flame proved more than ready for a jump from maiden racing to graded-stakes competition, breezing to a 5 3/4-length victory Sunday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $250,000 Maxfield Stakes.
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Three people still active in the practice of training Thoroughbred racehorses have housed a Horse of the Year in their barn four times, but if the 2026 season ended today, Steve Asmussen would become the only one with five.
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El Potente, the winner of two Grade 3 races at a mile on turf since the beginning of 2025, is on schedule to start for the first time since early March in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar on July 26.
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A fast workout by Sweet Azteca at Santa Anita on Sunday is likely to result in a start in Saturday's Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos, a race she has won the last two years.
There was no controversy surrounding Benvenuto Cellini’s win in Sunday’s Group 1 Irish Derby at the Curragh, only an attractive win by 1 3/4 lengths to lead a sweep of the trifecta by runners trained by Aidan O’Brien.
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Knick’s Honor became a stakes winner Saturday night, when he charged to a three-quarter-length victory over pacesetter Jackie Paper in the $50,000 Canterbury Park Derby.