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To beat a top European miler, trainer Will Walden figured he'd seek advice from a top European trainer. Shortly after his high-class Rhetorical finished fourth in the Breeders' Cup Mile, Walden messaged the great Aidan O'Brien. Walden wanted details: How did O'Brien winter horses who had major early-spring goals?
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Publisher will likely make his next start in the Grade 2, $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap, trainer Steve Asmussen said Tuesday.
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Barbadian Runner is back in training and preparing for his highly anticipated 4-year-old debut at Laurel Park.
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Wonder Mist won the first race of 2026 on this circuit for trainer Wesley Ward, but the 3-year-old gelding spent the remainder of the winter in Kentucky where he made just one start, a second-place finish over Turfway Park's synthetic surface.
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Turf racing will return to Laurel Park on Friday with two races scheduled for fillies and mares on the grass.
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She worked as a tattoo artist in Puerto Rico, but now Dalila Rivera is attempting to make her imprint in a totally different profession. Rivera is a jockey, and after a rough start to her stint in New York, things are beginning to turn around for the 27-year-old apprentice.
The 9-year-old gelding Grey Dawning has won Grade 1 races in famous events at Cheltenham Racecourse and Haydock Park in Britain in the last two years.
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With the stakes high on the final weekend of major preps for the Kentucky Derby, Albus catapulted into the picture by winning the Grade 2 Wood Memorial. A May foal, he is by a sprinter but from a deep female family with stamina.
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Cy Fair defeated males in the 2025 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint and was an Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding 2-year-old filly, garnering several dozen first-place votes. But she has scared no one away as she makes her 3-year-old debut in Friday's Grade 3, $350,000 Limestone Stakes.
The way Autumn Glow is collecting wins in Australia, the filly is drawing comparisons to some of the country's greatest recent runners. Autumn Glow has won all 11 of her starts and was 2-5 on Wednesday to win Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at 1 1/4 miles against males at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.
