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Thermal turned up the heat Monday at Lone Star Park, earning a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 106 for her win in the $100,000 Memorial Day Sprint. The Beyer is tied for the third-highest by a filly or mare on dirt this year in North America.
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With the season nearing its climax, Sha Tin hosts two Group 3 contests on Sunday (31 May), which will feature two improving young gallopers reaching their peaks this term.
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It's smaller, yes, but it's not small. It's a work in progress – and will be for several more months – but ultimately it will be a progressive facility. The new Belmont Park, ready or not, will open Sept. 18, 38 months after the last race was held at Belmont Park. The smaller, sleeker building – at 275,000 square feet, it's one-third the size of the old building – will be open on a limited basis to start. Only the first two floors will be open to the public and the fifth floor for operations/officials.
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A metric used by the New York Racing Association to measure price volatility in its exacta pools has dropped by more than half since the association put in restrictions on the amount of bets that can be sent into the pools by computer-assisted wagering groups earlier this year.
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Trainer Doug O’Neill has tentative plans for two prominent 3-year-olds in his barn – Pavlovian and Decisive Win.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has dropped possession charges against a trainer based at Parx racetrack, citing inconsistencies in witness testimony from investigators who conducted a search of the trainer’s barn in 2025, according to a statement released from the organization.
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Shifty goes for two sprint scores in a row on Sunday at Woodbine in the featured conditioned allowance with an $80,000 claiming option.
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A hometown Grade 1 winner meets a Chilean Group 1 winner on Sunday at Santa Anita in a seven-furlong sprint stakes that will set up both horses for a summer campaign. Stronghold stands out in the Grade 3 Triple Bend as he seeks his first stakes victory since the 2024 Santa Anita Derby.
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Fort Erie's 129th season, a 34-day meet that is significantly shorter than the border track's traditional 40-day stand, kicks off on Sunday.
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Two of the horses trainer Jorge Rosales has entered in Sunday's co-features at Emerald, Great Runner and Bobby's Genie, have already won coming back eight days after their previous races at the current Emerald meet. Six-year-old Bobby's Genie is set to make her third start of the meet, which only began May 2, in race 1 Sunday, while 7-year-old Great Runner is set to make his fourth start of the meet in the one-mile race 8
