Equibase has begun adding the full gate-to-wire times of races to its official charts, the company announced on Thursday. The gate-to-wire times include the run-up, which is an often widely varying distance that horses must reach after breaking from the gate before the official time of the race starts.
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Sister Troienne rose to prominence in Florida over the winter, but she got her career started in Kentucky. She returns to Keeneland on Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Appalachian Stakes where she'll face a one-two punch from another barn in Lion Lake, who edged her last out, and Imaginationthelady, already a Grade 2 winner on this course.
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The Madison Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland is a Grade 1 race in search of Grade 1 winners. But six of ther eight fillies and mares hit varying levels of very good. They might lack Grade 1 credentials, but the Madison – in this division, this year – feels like a real Grade 1.
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Dreams that began early for Potente and Robusta will endure or expire on Saturday when the top 3-year-olds in California race 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby.
Three-year-olds looking to take major steps up the classification ladder will be meeting at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania throughout the month on April in the Bobby Weiss Series, with the first preliminary action set for this Saturday, April 4.
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The 2026 edition of the John Brennan Trotting Series commenced on Wednesday night (April 1) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with a pair of $30,000 divisions, and the victories went to Top Gun Hanover and Always A Story.
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Now undefeated in two career starts, Shane’s Wonder has trainer Alfredo Velazquez in an excitable mood at Parx Racing. A potential stakes start could be on the horizon if the 3-year-old colt keeps making magic on the lead.
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Full Serrano, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in 2024, is unlikely to race again until the Del Mar summer meeting after finishing a troubled fourth in the Grade 3 Oaklawn Mile in Arkansas on Saturday.
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Queen Maxima, a five-time stakes winner in the last 14 months, will face a reduced field in Saturday’s Grade 3 Monrovia Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.
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Derick Giwner's analysis of the Friday 4/3 card at The Meadowlands.
