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Dry Powder to wheel back in Ruffian
Dry Power, who finished ninth of 10 in the Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs on May 1, will wheel back in eight days in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Ruffian Stakes at Aqueduct.
David GreningMay 06, 2026
Dry Power, who finished ninth of 10 in the Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs on May 1, will wheel back in eight days in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Ruffian Stakes at Aqueduct.
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Munnings Express will try seven furlongs for the first time as she is likely auditioning for a stakes opportunity somewhere when she heads a field of five entered in a multi-conditioned allowance/optional-claiming race Friday at Aqueduct.
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The Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes understandably proved to be well beyond the scope for Moonstrocity, whose half-court heave into Kentucky Derby contention came up well short. Nevertheless, the Tiz the Law colt could get his first victory in the sixth race on Friday at Gulfstream Park, a $68,000 maiden special weight at a mile on dirt.
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Seal Team was withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita after trainer Richard Mandella said he was unsatisfied with a blood test taken from the 6-year-old horse in days before the race. Mandella mentioned the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf on May 25 as a goal. Seal Team was third by 1 1/4 lengths in the Grade 3 American Stakes at a mile on turf on April 18.
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Off the heels of a four-win day at Santa Anita, jockey Kazushi Kimura heads to Aqueduct Saturday, where he has three mounts, including a pair of stakes. Most notably, Kimura rides Trendsetter, upset winner of the Grade 3 Lexington at Keeneland, in the Peter Pan Stakes.
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Needing a better start going a shorter trip, Lady Ilze looks to breakthrough against eight older fillies and mares in the featured sixth race Friday at Churchill Downs. This contest, like her last-out fifth at Keeneland, is a second-level allowance, but has an $80,000 claiming option and is carded at one mile, a half-furlong shorter than the Keeneland race.
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The highly anticipated 3-year-old season debut of the undefeated Beau Jangles highlights this Saturday’s racing action at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Skeptical bettors are back in business Friday at Santa Anita. The $2 pick six begins with a $42,057 carryover, and cynics will consider a trio of short-price favorites to be vulnerable at the end of the card.
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Turfway shippers Talent Show and Purrfect Girl should be all the rage when they both debut for a new trainer in the nominal feature on the first Friday card of the Woodbine meet, a seven-furlong starter allowance on the synthetic with a purse of $40,700.
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Amanda Bailey wears many hats – horsewoman, trainer, wife and mother – but none of them exist separately. At the barn she runs alongside her husband, Leon Bailey, her days are an elaborate balancing act of daily barn chores, focusing on the horses, racing and traveling to race, and raising two children, all woven together in a lifestyle that rarely slows down.