She's a Big Winner won the Sweet Life Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita in February, racing near the lead throughout, and returns to that course for Friday’s $75,000 Ultrafleet Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.
All 20 of this year’s prospective Kentucky Derby starters – 22 of them if you count the also eligibles Frammento and Tale of Verve – are on the grounds, making for a very active Derby/Oaks training session following the renovation break at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Twenty-two horses were entered Wednesday morning for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, with just one surprise, the entry of recent maiden winner Tale of Verve.
The consistent Sunset Glow and rising star Quality Rocks loom as the standouts in the Grade 3, $150,000 Edgewood Stakes on the Kentucky Oaks undercard Friday at Churchill Downs.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
A year after winning the Grade 3, $200,000 Eight Belles with favored Fiftyshadesofgold, trainer Bret Calhoun is back with another filly in the same race at Churchill Downs, starting the unbeaten Promise Me Silver. But against a quality field in Friday’s Eight Belles renewal, the race immediately before the Kentucky Oaks, there is no guarantee of favoritism, let alone of winning.
Carla Gaines has a chance to achieve racing history. An upset win by Bolo would make Gaines the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.
There are sweeping changes to the Louisiana Downs meet that opens on Friday. From a new date for the Super Derby and a new announcer, to a restructured race week and later post times, there is a fresh feel to the 84-day season in Bossier City, La.
Former Daily Racing Form Kentucky Bureau chief Logan Bailey, an award-winning journalist, died on Tuesday in Lexington, Ky., after a very brief illness. He was 75.
Absent from Ohio since 2012, turf racing will resume during the first two weeks of the 2015 season at Belterra Park in Cincinnati.
