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Big City Lights, after allowance victory, will run in Thor's Echo
Big City Lights returned from a layoff of more than five months to win a seven-furlong allowance race at Santa Anita on Saturday.
Steve AndersenMay 03, 2026
Big City Lights returned from a layoff of more than five months to win a seven-furlong allowance race at Santa Anita on Saturday.
Croix du Nord became the first Japanese Derby winner in nearly 20 years to win the Grade 1 spring running of the Tenno Sho at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan on Sunday.
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Early indications are that Golden Tempo came out of his victory in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby in good order and will be considered, but is not yet definite, to run in the Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park on May 16, trainer Cherie DeVaux said Sunday morning.
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Great White, who flipped behind the Kentucky Derby starting gate and was a late scratch, emerged from the incident without serious injury, as did jockey Alex Achard.
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Driver Dan Noble tied Dave Palone and George Napolitano Jr.'s record for victories on a single pari-mutuel program by winning 11 of the 15 races on Saturday night at Northfield Park. Noble's total was also a track record, and he broke Stephane Bouchard's record for consecutive victories by racking up 10 straight during the card.
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Magic Punk, with trainer-driver Ake Svanstedt in the sulky, made a bold rally in the stretch on Saturday night to capture the Grade 3 $157,125 Dexter Cup at the Meadowlands in a 1:53 1/5 clocking that became a stakes record with the race formerly held only on half-mile tracks. Magic Punk, the slight 7-5 favorite, tracked down second choice Southwind Alamo in the late stages for an easy score.
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The 2026 New Jersey Sire Stakes season began with $25,000 races for 3-year-old pacers of both sexes on Saturday night, and Dexter Dunn won both of them with filly Be Perfect BG and gelding Bookie J.
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Total commingled wagering on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville fell 3.0 percent compared to record betting on the race last year, according to charts of the races.
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The entire landscape of the 3-year-old trotting world will change starting May 4 when 46 diagonally-gaited combatants will square off in the elimination round for the Grade 1 $500,000 Oak Grove Trotting Derby and Grade 1 $300,000 Oak Grove Trotting Oaks at the similarly-named southern Kentucky five-eighths Standardbred oval.
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Jockey Jose Ortiz and his brother Irad were both looking for their first Kentucky Derby victory when they came charging down the center of the track under the Twin Spires on Saturday. They drove their respective mounts, Golden Tempo and Renegade, toward the wire in the final stages of the race, but ultimately only one could achieve that goal - at the expense of the other.