They only won maiden races in their debuts at Tampa Bay Downs, but expect to hear plenty more from 3-year-olds Emerging Market and Always a Runner throughout the year.
Trainer Chad Brown said he had both horses rated highly among his 2-year-olds during the summer of 2025, but both were delayed getting to the races due to pneumonia.
The Big Game 2026 is the most anticipated event on the football calendar — and it’s also the most competitive time of year for sportsbook promotions. Legal betting apps across the U.S. roll out their strongest offers leading up to kickoff, giving bettors multiple ways to stretch their bankroll and add extra value to their wagers.
With Big Game 2026 on the horizon, analysts have turned their attention to the championship matchup between Seattle and New England. As betting markets mature and data becomes clearer, expert predictions and projected scores are beginning to take shape.
Rather than pointing toward an extreme outcome, most forecasts suggest a competitive contest defined by efficiency, situational execution, and late-game decisions.
Cornishman returns to New Mexico on Monday to be part of a competitive field of 10 older horses in the $65,000 Winsham Lad at Sunland Park.
The one-mile race for 4-year-olds and up is one of two stakes on the card. The program also includes the $80,000 Jamison Memorial.
The Winsham Lad is a stepping-stone to the $200,000 Sunland Park Stakes on April 5. The race is the meet’s most significant offering for older horses and will be run at 1 1/8 miles.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In less than two weeks, jockey Dylan Davis will find out if he’s greenlighted to begin his return to the saddle. It’s a comeback that he almost thought about not attempting.
Davis suffered a litany of injuries – nine broken ribs, a fractured right collarbone, a partially fractured right arm, a collapsed lung, and he lost a kidney – as a result of a spill at Aqueduct last Nov. 14, the day before his 31st birthday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Handicappers could find themselves having a difficult time separating the top four contenders – Shape Note, Boat’s a Rockin, Cyclonite, and Itza Boss – in Sunday’s $86,000 allowance and optional-claiming feature at Gulfstream Park. The sprint lured 11 potential starters to go five furlongs on the turf.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – At first glance, there does not appear to be an abundance of pace in the $150,000 King Cotton on Sunday at Oaklawn Park, which could give the quick Roll On Big Joe a tactical advantage as he seeks to win his third consecutive stakes race.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Preparations for the North American breeding season are coming down to the wire, but there’s still time to pick up a broodmare or prospect.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale marks the last chance to do so at a public auction, just under the wire. The single-session sale is set for Monday, Feb. 9, at the company’s Newtown Paddocks headquarters in Lexington, less than 24 hours before many breeding sheds open. For example, Spendthrift Farm, which stands seven-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief, opens for business on Feb. 10.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Bad trips come in different forms, as illustrated by a pair of contenders in the $100,000 Clocker’s Corner Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita.
Seven older horses entered the six-furlong turf sprint, restricted to non-winners of a graded stakes in 2025-26. Sumter could start favored based on his last-out runner-up finish in the Grade 2 Joe Hernandez Stakes on the hill, but two who finished behind Sumter might slip through the cracks.
ARCADIA, Calif. – It is rare for a nongraded stakes with just four runners to offer both national significance and wagering value. An exception is the $100,000 Las Virgenes Stakes for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Santa Anita.
The one-mile Las Virgenes landed three of the top four finishers in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies – winner Super Corredora, runner-up Explora, and fourth-place finisher Meaning. The outsider in the field is recent maiden winner Bank Shot.
