Amr Zedan, the owner of Arkansas Derby winner Muth, has filed a lawsuit against Churchill Downs Inc. seeking a temporary injunction that would allow his horse to run in this year’s Kentucky Derby despite a ban on the horse’s trainer, Bob Baffert, according to a press release issued by Zedan’s public-relations firm and a copy of the lawsuit.

Endlessly is scheduled for his first workout over the Churchill Downs dirt track Friday or Saturday, although his Kentucky Derby status is uncertain. Endlessly has won five of six on turf and synthetic, including four stakes and a four-length victory March 23 in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park. Endlessly earned 100 Derby qualifying points.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Timberlake will not advance to the Kentucky Derby following his fourth-place finish in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Arkansas Derby, trainer Brad Cox said Tuesday.

Timberlake was the favorite for last Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park and set the pace to about the quarter pole before being overtaken by winner Muth. Timberlake was beaten 6 3/4 lengths and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 88. The start came one race after Timberlake won the Grade 2 Rebel at 1 1/16 miles in February at Oaklawn.

Le Dom Bro, runner-up in the Fountain of Youth Stakes on March 2, and Tapalo, runner-up in the El Camino Real Derby on Feb. 10, head a group of nine 3-year-olds who were made late nominees to the Triple Crown, it was announced Tuesday by Churchill Downs.

Eclipse Award champion Just F Y I headlines a field of eight fillies as she makes her delayed 3-year-old debut in the Grade 1, $600,000 Ashland Stakes on Friday at Keeneland, opening day of the Lexington, Ky., track's spring meeting. 

The first of 16 cards for Keeneland's spring meet was drawn on Monday. The Ashland is one of three stakes on the 10-race card, with a first post of 1 p.m. Eastern. 

Elfriede “Frieda” Stronach, the wife of prominent owner/breeder Frank Stronach, died March 25 at age 80 at her home in Aurora, Ontario, after battling illness.

Laurel River was a good horse when he campaigned in America for trainer Bob Baffert between 2020 and 2022. Saturday at Meydan Racecourse, now based in the United Arab Emirates with trainer Bhupat Seemar, Laurel River was the best dirt horse in the world, and it wasn’t even close. 

A Schenectady County Supreme Court judge in New York has denied a motion from the New York State Gaming Commission seeking to have an appeal made by trainer Todd Pletcher moved to appellate court, in a ruling that will allow the judge to examine several legal issues raised by Pletcher’s legal defense.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – R Calli Kim, who was entered to run in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Orchid Stakes at Gulfstream Park, has been retired from racing after injuring a tendon, trainer Brendan Walsh said Thursday.

“It needed time we just don’t have with her,” Walsh said. “It’s a shame. I thought we were going to have a big year with her.”