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Grand Job has an excellent chance for her second career graded stakes win in Friday's Grade 2 Bed o' Roses Stakes at seven furlongs for fillies and mares at Saratoga.
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Nathan Klein began his first week as the track announcer at Penn National on Tuesday, calling seven races on the evening card. It was a historic moment for the 21-year-old.
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There are two competitive allowance races Friday at Santa Anita, a turf mile for fillies and mares and a dirt mile open to both genders.
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Slowly but surely, trainer Cherie DeVaux and her team allowed Golden Tempo to become a classic winner in his own time.
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Turf racing kicks off at the Woodbine meet in Friday's nightcap with a $25,000 maiden claimer going a mile on the inner course. Post time for the first of eight races is 1 p.m.
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Among the handful of Hastings refugees who now have stables on the Emerald Downs backstretch, Ian Jewell holds seniority, having gotten 19 starts at the Auburn, Wash., track under his belt last year. Seas of Normandy was perhaps the most prominent of Jewell's entrants. On Friday, he is a contender in race 4, a $20,000 claiming mile.
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Gezora, who won the Prix de Diane – France's Oaks – and the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf during a highly productive, two-continent 2025 campaign, long has been aimed at the New York Stakes on Friday at Saratoga. It's just that Chad Brown figured he'd be saddling the filly, not trying to beat her.
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Not too many racetracks hosting their first session of 2-year-old races in a year, as is the case at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Wednesday morning, would send out an advance release leading with something other than the babies as they start their careers.
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A pair of eliminations are set for this Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park to determine the field for the 43rd Pepsi North America Cup (Grade 1).
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It’s been 22 years since Trond Smedshammer captured the Hambletonian with Windsong’s Legacy and the veteran trainer-driver is still more motivated than ever to return to the sport’s biggest event. Now with a limited stable, Smedshammer has managed to carefully bring along his horses to the point that they are potentially good enough to compete on the biggest stage.
