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Michael Trombetta plans on putting Lonesome Road and Maclean's Rook in races at Colonial Downs next week, but doing so might require some careful thought. The 4-year-olds have risen through the ranks in remarkably similar fashion, but the trainer doesn't want to see them face off any time soon.
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Pay Billy, a two-time stakes winner who ran seventh in the Preakness last year, got back to his winning ways last Friday at Laurel Park.
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Trainer Randy Morse's strong meet at Oaklawn Park has been highlighted by the performances of some of the barn's sprinters. One of its very best, multiple stakes winner Asternia, will see action on Friday.
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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 4, 2026
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After some disappointing results in points-scoring races, trainer Brad Cox started to get concerned about his prospects of participating in Kentucky Derby 152. Then, last Saturday at Gulfstream Park, Commandment won the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth. On Saturday, Further Ado kicks off his campaign for Cox in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby.
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Sassy Princess may have been no match for Lost Horizon when she tried two turns on dirt for the first time three weeks ago. But there does not appear to be anyone the quality of Lost Horizon when Sassy Princess takes another crack at two turns in Friday's first-level allowance feature going 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct.
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Gun Runner is the sire of three horses in this week's Derby Watch Top 20 – Paladin, Further Ado, and Brant. While Paladin awaits the Grade 1 Blue Grass, Further Ado begins his 3-year-old campaign in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby on Saturday. On the opposite coast, Brant launches his season in the Grade 2 San Felipe.
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The pick six Friday at Santa Anita is not that difficult, and the $45,603 carryover is not that big. But it's big enough. By the time CAWs flood the pool the final minutes before the first leg, $250,000 in new money is expected.
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The last time trainer Mark Glatt and his children saw his wife, their mother, was the evening of Feb. 11. Dena Glatt, a patient at USC Arcadia Hospital, was blowing kisses from her hospital bed.
The Jockey Club of Canada’s Graded Stakes Committee recently held its annual review of graded and listed stakes races in Canada without making many changes. The number of graded stakes in Canada will remain at 41. One graded stakes was downgraded and one listed race was upgraded.
