Proceed will be looking to nail down his fourth straight stakes win Saturday, when he returns to the New Mexico-bred ranks for the $60,000 Lineage Classic at the Downs at Albuquerque. He is the star attraction on a program of four stakes that help make up the track’s annual Lineage Weekend.
Five days after his victory in the Kentucky Derby, American Pharoah returned to the track for training on Thursday morning at Churchill Downs as he began the quick turnaround for the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 16.
Some thoughts that popped into my brain while I sat in traffic as 170,000 fans inched along in their cars leaving Churchill Downs after Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Saturday, five 3-year-olds will try to convince their connections they deserve consideration for the 147th Belmont Stakes on June 6 when they compete in the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan at Belmont Park.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, is scheduled to have a workout at Newmarket Racecourse in England on Saturday under jockey Frankie Dettori in preparation for the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, trainer Art Sherman said on Wednesday.
Tattersalls will launch a new bonus scheme exclusively for Book 1 graduates of the auction company’s October yearling sale to eventually replace its Tattersalls Millions series.
The anticipated showdown between the two-time champion Beholder and the rapidly improving Warren’s Veneda in Saturday’s $300,000 Vanity Stakes at Santa Anita was lost Thursday when trainer Richard Mandella said Beholder would miss the race because of an illness.
With defending turf champion Main Sequence unlikely to race again until July, Saturday’s $400,000 Man o’ War at Belmont Park gives Imagining, Twilight Eclipse and five other turf marathoners a golden opportunity at winning a Grade 1 stakes.
Fresh off a win in the Grade 1 Madison Stakes at Keeneland, Princess Violet heads a field of six fillies and mares in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Ruffian Stakes at Belmont Park.
As Kentucky Derbies go, the 141st edition last Saturday was a satisfying one on several counts, whether or not you cashed a ticket.
