The Group 1 Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury in England did not draw American Horse of the Year California Chrome, who when he first arrived in England after the Dubai World Cup, was announced as a probable runner, but he may be one of the few high-quality older horses in England not entered in the race.
Two horses tied for the session’s fastest furlong and three for the fastest quarter as the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale’s under-tack preview show concluded with its second session Thursday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at The Meadowlands.
Fourteen are in the main body of the Dixie Stakes, the turf lead-in to the Preakness on Saturday at Pimlico; only a handful can be comfortably dismissed.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at Balmoral Park.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Prominent owner-breeder Eugene Melnyk, who announced last summer he would disperse his Thoroughbred stock, has been hospitalized due to liver complications and is in need of an organ transplant. Melnyk, 55, also is the owner of the NHL team the Ottawa Senators.
DRF sales editor Joe Nevills analyzes the Preakness Stakes field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku, a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Saturday’s ungraded, $65,000 Keertana Stakes at Churchill Downs proved so popular when entries were taken Wednesday that the track split the race into two divisions, with the first, the eighth race, having 10 entrants, and the second division in the 11th race having 11.
