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Live racing returns to New England’s premier harness track on Monday (April 13) at 4 p.m. when Plainridge Park opens its 2026 season. The 110 day meet will run through Tuesday, November 24.
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Corniche, Ashford stablemate Golden Pal, and multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good already are off the mark with winners as the Keeneland spring meet kicks off 2-year-old racing in North America. The wins could boost the stock for the sires at this week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s spring sale of 2-year-olds in training.
Star Anise, the 2025 champion 2-year-old filly in Japan, starts for the first time this year in Sunday’s Grade 1 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin.
Shenandoah Downs will open its 11th season of pari-mutuel harness racing this Saturday, April 11 with an 11-race program beginning at 1:05 P.M. (EDT). The opener will celebrate driver/trainer Roger Hammer's distinguished career, his impact in Virginia racing over two-plus decades and his 80th birthday as well with a commemorative t-shirt giveaway and celebratory birthday cake. The Bedford, Pennsylvania, native will compete in races one, four and ten on Saturday.
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Trainer Peter Tritton has enjoyed plenty of success at Yonkers over the years racing imported horses from Australia and New Zealand. Most notably, Bit Of A Legend N was a former Borgata Series champion that has gone on to stallion duty. Last year, Tritton's stars rose again with Mossdale Ben N's victory in the Borgata final and the mare Silk Cloud A capturing a pair of legs of the former Blue Chip Matchmaker Series on her way to reaching the final. Those two are back and looking as good as ever as both the MGM Borgata and Ursula McIntyre Series move into round-three action this weekend.
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The Meadowlands will play host to 2025 Dan Patch winners Yo Tillie and Lexus Kody - along with a number of other top Standardbred stars from last year - during an 11-race qualifying session on Saturday morning (April 11) in New Jersey.
TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Friday, April 10, 2026 at Aqueduct.
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Roll On Big Joe has arguably emerged as the dominant sprinter this meet at Oaklawn Park. As such, the Grade 3, $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap would seem to go through him Saturday.
Officials involved in racing investigations for all three major horse racing breeds stressed on Thursday morning during panels at the Association of Racing Commissioners International conference that the most important benefit of successful prosecutions is driving “cultural change” in the sport.
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A Breeders' Cup Distaff berth is up for grabs Saturday, when champion Nitrogen leads a competitive cast of fillies and mares in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park.
