INDIANTOWN, Fla. - Hours before he won his second straight Florida Derby, trainer Brad Cox won his first Gulfstream Park Oaks. Now, he not only seems well armed to try and win a second Kentucky Derby, Cox has plenty of ammunition to try and win a fourth Kentucky Oaks.
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Trainer John Ennis two years ago saddled Epic Ride, who won the Leonatus Stakes and finished second in the John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park. Rather than continuing on that track’s prep series for the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby, Ennis ventured to Keeneland for a dirt try with Epic Ride, who finished a creditable third in the Grade 1 Blue Grass behind Sierra Leone. He drew in to the Kentucky Derby off the also-eligible list, and finished 14th.
Oaklawn Park will have a pick six carryover of $52,482 awaiting horseplayers when racing resumes on Thursday.
The Hot Springs, Ark., track will be dark on Sunday following the running of the Arkansas Derby on Saturday, when Oaklawn drew a record crowd of 73,000.
The $1 pick six will run on races 4-9 on Thursday. The card has been drawn.
The sequence opens with a first-level allowance route for fillies and mares that drew Floating Beauty, a stakes-placed closer who might get the right setup with three speed horses drawn to her immediate inside Thursday.
The undefeated Paladin, ranked first in Daily Racing Form’s Derby Watch, is off the Triple Crown trail after suffering an injury Saturday morning while completing a workout at Payson Park, trainer Chad Brown said Saturday.
Paladin, winner of the Grade 2 Remsen at age 2 and the Risen Star at 3, was pointing to next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. He was timed in a workout Saturday morning in 48.80 seconds.
An untimely, brief, and minor illness kept the 4-year-old colt Magnitude from shipping to Saudi Arabia for the $20 million Saudi Cup in February. A timely, sustained, and major display of speed, professionalism, and stamina won Magnitude the $12 million Dubai World Cup on Saturday at Meydan Racecourse.
Book’em Danno, the champion sprinter of 2025, will make his return to the races in the Grade 2, $300,000 Carter Stakes at Aqueduct on April 4. His regular rider, Paco Lopez, will be in the saddle, trainer Derek Ryan said Friday.
Book’em Danno was scheduled to leave Tampa Bay Downs by van for Belmont Park on Saturday, Ryan said. On Friday at Tampa Bay Downs, Book’em Danno blew out three furlongs in 37 seconds from the gate with Lopez aboard.
“I took him to the gate because he hadn’t been there since he ran,” Ryan said.
Roger Attfield, the Canada-based trainer who is a member of both the U.S. and Canadian Racing Hall of Fames, has retired from training at the age of 86, according to an announcement distributed by Woodbine Racecourse in Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday.
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Michael Ball was 22 years old in 1980 when he trained a 3-year-old named Summer Advocate who he thought had potential to be a Kentucky Derby horse. Through April of his 3-year-old year, Summer Advocate was a multiple winner though his one stakes performance to that point was a third in the Spiral Stakes.
“He could have beat half of them,” Ball said of the colt he trained for his parents, Don and Mira Ball. “I was 22 years old and I thought I would have one next year that could run better than this one, we don’t need to run him.”
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Emerging Market (Louisiana Derby) gave Chad Brown a third winner of a Kentucky Derby points-scoring race this year, joining Paladin (Risen Star) and Iron Honor (Gotham). Emerging Market was courageous in wearing down Pavlovian, who herded him late. He debuts at 15-1 on David Aragona’s Derby Watch morning line.
Grade 1 winners Careless Jewel, Hard Not to Like, Joshua Tree, and Rahy’s Attorney, along with former Daily Racing Form writer/editor Bill Tallon, are among the 2026 finalists for induction into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
The high-strung Careless Jewel captured the 2009 Alabama at Saratoga by an emphatic 11 lengths, a race that sandwiched her Grade 2 scores in the Delaware Oaks and Cotillion. She was ridden throughout her career by Hall of Famer Robert Landry while based at Woodbine with Hall of Fame trainer Josie Carroll.