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Future Is Now, a four-time graded stakes winner who earned nearly $1 million on turf, is maintaining her regal status in retirement. Co-owner Tracy Mulroy said the Maryland-bred mare is living the good life at Legacy Farm in Beaumont, Va., and will be bred to Constitution this year.
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Trainer Brittany Russell formally introduced two young guns in her 3-year-old crop last Saturday, as Taj Mahal and Peach Tie delivered sharp efforts to sweep a pair of $100,000 stakes at Laurel Park. Both runners could stay close to home while adding distance in the coming months.
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Jockey Juan Hernandez, who through Sunday had a narrow one-win lead in the jockey standings at Santa Anita, is in the midst of a seven-day suspension for causing interference in the $250,000 Sunland Park Oaks in New Mexico on Feb. 15.
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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for Feb. 25, 2026
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Trainer Kenny McPeek is still perplexed over what happened regarding Blackout Time on the last Friday of October. It hasn't deterred him from trying to get the now 3-year-old colt to the grandest stage on the first Saturday in May.
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The 2025 Grade 1 winner Lovesick Blues has been moved to Dubai for the Group 1 Golden Shaheen Sprint on March 28 following a fifth-place finish in the Group 2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 14.
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Owner John Oxley has Silent Tactic and Strategic Risk on deck for the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel on Sunday at Oaklawn Park. The Mark Casse trainees have won the first two Kentucky Derby points races at the meet, with homebred Strategic Risk taking the $250,000 Smarty Jones in January and Silent Tactic winning the Grade 3, $1 million Southwest in February.
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The lightly raced but extremely promising Domino Vitali figures to go postward as a heavy favorite to defeat five rivals in Friday's $86,000 headliner, a one-mile test for older fillies and mares on the main track.
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Although his speed figures might be a little light and he’s yet to test stakes company, Jackson Hole has one item on his résumé that puts him in the conversation when talking about leading contenders for Saturday’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth: He’s the only member of the field to have won a race around two turns.
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A pick six carryover and a seven-figure pool are reasons enough for bettors to cope with a dreadful race that starts an otherwise appealing $2 pick six Friday at Santa Anita. The $198,741 carryover is expected to attract $1 million in new money on races 4 through 9.
