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Churchill Downs won't host a longer race this week than the $200,000 Isaac Murphy Marathon Stakes on Wednesday. In Parchment Party's ideal world, the Murphy, a 1 1/2-mile dirt contest, would be even longer.
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A four-day racing week at Santa Anita begins Thursday with a carryover of $44,113 in the $2 pick six.
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Trainer Librado Barocio, who won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar last summer with Lovesick Blues, faces possible sanctions after syringes, hypodermic needles, and vials of the joint medication polyglycan were found in a car registered to him at Santa Anita.
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Led by race winner Take A Breath, three of the first four finishers from Saturday’s Grade 3 Royal Heroine Stakes at Santa Anita are expected to start in the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares on turf on May 25.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Spring Dancer won her third consecutive race at the Oaklawn Park meet on Sunday, coming out on top after a stretch-long battle with Anakarina in the $135,000 Majestic.
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Fitz Right unleashed a furious late kick to win the $150,000 Memories of Silver Stakes on Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Kentucky shipper Arbiter blew away his three rivals with the addition of Lasix in Sunday’s $130,000 Woodstock Stakes for 3-year-olds at Woodbine.
Daryz was brilliant winning the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris last October in his final start of 2025. For his first start of 2026, Daryz was equally as impressive in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp.
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This is the first Kentucky Derby week in the memory of most at Churchill Downs in which the legendary D. Wayne Lukas is not on his stable pony pre-dawn, with an eagle eye on his own horses and the competition.
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Bob Baffert is no longer coming to Kentucky Derby 152 under the radar. Potente, a 20-1 shot on the morning line, may have raised his profile while lowering his odds with a scorching five-furlong workout in 57.77 seconds Sunday morning over the Churchill Downs main track. It’s not so much that he worked fast – the main track produced many fast times Sunday morning – as it is how he did it and how he seemingly came out of it.
