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.
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.”
Santa Anita has canceled racing on Saturday and Sunday because of a forecast of extensive rain.
Track officials made the decision Thursday morning after monitoring expected conditions for the weekend. As much as three inches of rain may fall in Southern California.
“It looks like enough rain to mess up the weekend – and no turf racing,” track general manager Nate Newby said.
The track was to have one day of racing this week, on Friday.
The New York Racing Association is anticipating a 20 percent decline in revenue from betting on its product this year due to the temporary closing of Belmont Park while it is being renovated, NYRA officials told a state oversight board Thursday.
Just a Touch, who finished second as the favorite in the Grade 3 Gotham on March 2 at Aqueduct, will make his next start in the Grade 1, $1 million Blue Grass Stakes on April 6 at Keeneland, trainer Brad Cox confirmed Wednesday.
“It’s a Grade 1 and we just think it’s a very good spot for him,” Cox communicated via text.
Just a Touch, a son of 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify, was a 4 1/4-length winner of a six-furlong maiden race in the slop on Jan. 27 at Fair Grounds. He shipped to Aqueduct for the Gotham, where he was sent off the 8-5 favorite in an 11-horse field.
It does not take long to review the race record of T O Password, the Japan-based colt scheduled to start in the Kentucky Derby on May 4 at Churchill Downs.
Unbeaten in two starts, T O Password will be by far the least experienced runner in what is expected to be a field of 20.
T O Password earned a berth in the Kentucky Derby with a narrow win in his stakes debut in the $228,100 Fukuryu Stakes at about 1 1/8 miles at Nakayama Racecourse last Saturday.
Earlier this week, T O Password was confirmed as a probable starter for the Kentucky Derby by Churchill Downs.
