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Presque Isle opened its meet on May 18, and runs through Oct. 22. The first stakes race of this season is the $100,000 Tom Ridge Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters on Monday night, and the entry box shows the popularity of the track. The Tom Ridge has drawn an overflow field of 13, with 12 permitted to start, and the favorites come from a variety of backgrounds.
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Churchill Downs's Sunday card doesn't have a stakes in name only, and the seventh race, a $141,000 allowance for older horses scheduled as a turf sprint, should wind up with at least one multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire going postward.
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Mark Newnham will aim to maintain his trainers’ title challenge when he sends a lean squad of six runners to Sha Tin’s ‘Summer Series’ fixture on Saturday (13 June).
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Before he ships south this summer to aim for a fifth consecutive victory in the Del Mar Handicap, Gold Phoenix will run in the San Juan Capistrano on Sunday, the originally scheduled closing day at Santa Anita. Because of Thursday's mid-card cancellation, a Monday makeup card will extend the meet. There will be mandatory payouts in all pools both Sunday and Monday.
Trips to France are defining the career of the 3-year-old filly Diamond Necklace, who is part of trainer Aidan O'Brien's powerful stable in Ireland. Diamond Necklace is back in France for Sunday's Group 1 French Oaks at Chantilly Racecourse where she will be an odds-on favorite to extend her unbeaten streak to five races.
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The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s June sale of 2-year-olds and horses in training marks the last chance to acquire an unraced juvenile prior to the division heating up, with major summer meets ahead. And this 2-year-old sales season has already been plenty hot.
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Lupa has worked strongly for her return from a seven-month layoff, and her ability to fire fresh makes her a player in Sunday's eighth race at Woodbine, a conditioned allowance with a $50,000 claiming option on the inner turf.
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No Ordinary Tiger has to be one of the most durable, seasoned horses in North America. He has not had a proper freshening since joining Robbie Baze's barn in February 2025, racing 14 times that year and 10 times so far this year. A last-out winner, No Ordinary Tiger wheels back two weeks later in a starter allowance Sunday at Emerald Downs.
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Following Oaks glory at Epsom, the Owning Hill ace has assembled a strong battalion in search of more big-race success at Royal Ascot.
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The 13-time top trainer at Royal Ascot, who has saddled a record 96 winners at the big meeting, reveals his galaxy of starts out to shine in 2026.
