The Thoroughbred Horse Show Association will host its fourth annual show on Sunday, May 3 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., benefiting Our Mims Retirement Haven for broodmares.
If you liked the major Kentucky Derby preps at Fair Grounds and Gulfstream in February, you got an encore performance last Saturday. International Star won again at Fair Grounds, this time in the Louisiana Derby, while at Gulfstream, a Todd Pletcher trainee defeated Upstart in a controversial running of the Florida Derby, similar to the Fountain of Youth.
Brad Free's horses to watch at Santa Anita for the week of March 30.
Handicapper Mary Rampellini ranks the top 3-year-old males and fillies pointing to races at Oaklawn.
El Kabeir, winner of the Jerome and Gotham this winter in New York, is expected to face only five horses in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.
Social Inclusion, sidelined since last summer due to a tendon injury, is getting closer to a return to the races.
Stephanie’s Kitten, the three-time Grade 1-winning mare, will take on males in her next start when she runs in the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodford Reserve at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day.
Rajiv Maragh arrived back in south Florida following the long flight home from Dubai just in time to guide Celestine to victory for trainer Bill Kaplan in Sunday’s $75,000 Sanibel Island Stakes.
Tonalist continues to progress toward his much-anticipated 2015 debut. Tonalist worked four furlongs in 49.80 and galloped out in five-eighths in 1:03 Monday morning at Payson Park, according to trainer Christophe Clement.
Twenty-four hours after watching Birdatthewire overcome adversity to win the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks, trainer Dale Romans was still shaking his head.
