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Pharoah’s Wine has improved throughout her 4-year-old season, and on Thursday she ran her best race yet in the richest opportunity of her career, the $500,000 One Dreamer Stakes at Kentucky Downs. With a late wide surge under Corey Lanerie, Pharoah’s Wine ran down five horses through the homestretch and scored a 1 1/2-length One Dreamer victory.
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The spotlight will shine on Pennsylvania’s top 3-year-olds this Saturday (Sept. 6) as Hollywood Casino at The Meadows hosts the $1.4 million Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships. The blockbuster card features four $50,000 consolations and four $300,000 championship finals, with first post at 12:45 p.m.
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Sushi Man will be looking for his fourth consecutive win at the Canterbury Park meet on Saturday night when he faces older horses in the $50,000 Blair's Cove.
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St. Benedicts Prep will return to Laurel Park in search of her second stakes victory in the $100,000 Twixt Stakes on Saturday. The 5-year-old mare has had trouble finding the winner's circle elsewhere, but trainer Linda Rice has had better luck shipping her to Maryland.
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Overnight purses at the forthcoming Los Alamitos September meeting will be equal to the track’s summer meeting and higher than the corresponding September meeting in 2024.
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The stallion Smooth Like Strait has been moved from War Horse Place in Kentucky to Eclipse Thoroughbred Farm in Solvang, Calif., for the 2026 breeding season, Eclipse announced in a statement earlier this week.
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Lennilu, a prospect for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, and Finding Strength, who owns a significant Beyer Speed Figure, make for an intriguing matchup in the Desert Vixen division of the Florida Sire Stakes series that begins Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
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Though she is still on the hunt for her first stakes victory, Evershed has the chance to cement herself as one of the best 3-year-old turf fillies in the country in the $250,000 Old Dominion Oaks at Colonial Downs on Saturday.
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For jockey Antonio Fresu, the 2025 Del Mar summer meeting will be remembered for his near misses as much as an abundant number of wins.
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Mark Casse is going back to the playbook he has used successfully in the past with runners like Grade 1-winning turf mare Got Stormy, reasoning that a horse may be able to handle softer going, but that it limits how far they can run. And if that move works once again, Mi Bago looms as a potential overlay in Saturday's Grade 1, $2 million Franklin-Simpson Stakes
