:quality(75))
White Abarrio, vanquisher of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Sovereignty in the Oaklawn Handicap, shipped earlier this week from his base at Gulfstream Park to Churchill Downs for Saturday's $2 million Stephen Foster Stakes.
:quality(75))
Commandment has the Jim Dandy Stakes on Aug. 1 as his next target, a prep for the $1.25 million Travers four weeks later.
:quality(75))
If you were to judge a creature strictly by the company he keeps, you would expect American Promise to win the featured 10th race Friday at Churchill Downs.
:quality(75))
Mr. A. P., unraced since finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last fall at Del Mar, did not work last weekend as usual, but no worries. Trainer Vladimir Cerin said Mr. A. P. was coming around too quickly, and Cerin did not want the colt ready too soon, hence the skipped work.
:quality(75))
Gold Phoenix will carry the Little Red Feather banner this summer at Del Mar, where he will seek his fifth consecutive win in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap. However, a pair of stakes winners co-owned by Little Red Feather and trained by Phil D'Amato will miss the summer season, according to Little Red Feather managing partner Billy Koch.
:quality(75))
The $100,000 Bertrando Stakes for older California-breds last Saturday at Los Alamitos came and went without multiple stakes winner Vodka Vodka, but the weekend was not a total wash for the 5-year-old gelding.
:quality(75))
Is another track record in store for comebacker Sweet Azteca? It depends on if she starts in the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes on July 4 at Los Alamitos, a 6 1/2-furlong race she won in track-record time the last two years – 1:14.33 in 2024 and 1:14.32 in 2025.
:quality(75))
Galley Head is descending to an appealing spot while changing surfaces to the inner turf in Friday's fifth race going 7 1/2 furlongs for open $25,000 claimers.
:quality(75))
Fresh Face Yankee, driven and trained by Jay Cross, did not miss a beat in her dominant return, winning the $96,000 third leg of the Indiana Sire Stakes 3-year-old filly trot at Harrah's Hoosier Park on Tuesday (June 23).
:quality(75))
Driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Marcus Melander flourished on the 16-race card of racing at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Tuesday (June 23) with five wins each on the card stacked with all trotting events and 15 divisions of Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS).
