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Santa Anita has extensive Derby week schedule
Santa Anita will conduct races for four days – from April 30 to May 3 – and run a twilight program on May 1 in conjunction with Kentucky Derby week at Churchill Downs.
Steve AndersenApr 22, 2026
Santa Anita will conduct races for four days – from April 30 to May 3 – and run a twilight program on May 1 in conjunction with Kentucky Derby week at Churchill Downs.
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Almendares and King of Gosford, first and fourth in the Grade 3 American Stakes at Santa Anita last Saturday, will represent trainer Phil D’Amato in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf on May 25.
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Have Faith will attempt to keep trainer Dallas Stewart's strong Oaklawn Park meet rolling Friday when she faces Grade 1 Frizette runner-up Rileytole in the $135,000 Southern Hospitality for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs.
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Pundits may debate how realistic a chance Pavlovian has in the Kentucky Derby. But it would be amazing if trainer Doug O'Neill and owner Paul Reddam were to team up and win the race a third time. Only three owners and six trainers have ever won more than two Derbies.
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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for April 22, 2026
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J. Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O'Neill have teamed to win the Kentucky Derby twice, in 2012 with I'll Have Another and 2016 with Nyquist. Their hopeful this year is California-bred homebred Pavlovian, whose sire and dam were both trained by O'Neill for Reddam.
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Run With Liberty, an ordinary-looking filly who delivered an extraordinary debut, returns Friday at Santa Anita. She paid $30 first out, but there are no secrets Friday.
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There's no chance Just Basking runs as well Friday in the Bewitch Stakes as Burnham Square did last Saturday winning the Elkhorn, but even, say 85 percent of that performance level would give trainer Ian Wilkes a sweep of the two 1 1/2-mile turf stakes at the Keeneland spring meeting.
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Tuesday night's (April 21) program at MGM Yonkers Raceway saw favorites go just one-for-nine, leading to both the late Pick 4 and the Pick 5 not being hit. As a result, there will be a $15,873.36 carryover and a $50,000 guaranteed pool in the early Pick 4 and a $12,495.08 carryover and a $40,000 guaranteed pool in the Pick 5 on Wednesday (April 22).
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The two horses who last year swept their four Pennsylvania Sire Stakes preliminaries and then were triumphant in their Championships, pacing colt Frantic Hanover and trotting filly Ginger Tree Lex, both added a second qualifying win to their preparation for their coming sophomore campaign at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Tuesday.