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Hawthorne Racecourse, the Chicago-area Thoroughbred track currently undergoing bankruptcy reorganization, opens its live meet on Sunday after a roughly three-week delay due to the track's recent bankruptcy filing.
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Henro might have to run down Red State to win the featured eighth race Sunday at Oaklawn Park. At least that's one take on the allowance sprint for 4-year-olds and up that carries a claiming option of $62,500. The six-furlong race has a purse of $127,000.
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It was a busy morning, starting before dawn, for trainer Brad Cox’s team at Churchill Downs, with three Kentucky Derby candidates, all of whom won major races in the final stage of the prep season, and a potential Kentucky Oaks entrant all breezing beneath the twin spires.
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Mad House ran arguably the best race of his young career in the Grade 3, $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap last weekend at Oaklawn Park and now he could take his sharp form to either Churchill Downs or Laurel Park.
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The Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks, and a myriad of undercard stakes featuring top-level runners at Churchill Downs will dominate much of the attention in the coming weeks. But down the highway in Lexington, more Thoroughbreds will also be contesting the pinnacle of the sport in which they've found a home.
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Among all the comebackers in Sunday's featured fifth race, War Strategy has been off the longest. But he may have the best chance in the five-furlong dash because he wintered in Florida, unlike the others.
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, April 19, 2026, at Sha Tin.
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Modo gave Kinnon LaRose his first stakes win as a trainer on Thursday night, when she led throughout to capture the $75,000 Bluebonnet Stakes on the opening night card at Lone Star Park near Dallas.
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When Braylon Mullins sank a 35-foot shot to propel Connecticut to the Final Four on March 29 over Duke, somehow I got the feeling we'd seen this ending before. No matter the exquisite drama, basketball over time has evolved and with it the aspect of freshmen in college hitting big shots has become more commonplace than I would have ever imagined. Even the distance the shot was taken from, while deep, has been attempted and converted many times in games with less meaning.
The post position draws for Wednesday's (April 22) $100,000 final and $50,000 consolation of this year's John Brennan Trotting Series at MGM Yonkers Raceway have taken place.
