Trainer Jamie Ness and jockey Jaime Rodriguez ended Laurel Park’s winter meet with a flourish when 6-year-old mare Lady Zeta got the bob to win the final race on Sunday, giving Ness the trainer title and Rodriguez the rider crown.

It was the seventh time each has earned their respective title at Laurel.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Quietside emerged from her Saturday win in the Grade 2, $750,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park in excellent condition and will be based at Keeneland in the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Oaks, trainer John Ortiz said Sunday. 

Quietside will start as one of the chief contenders in the Kentucky Oaks after winning both the Fantasy – which produced last year’s Oaks winner in Thorpedo Anna – and the Honeybee, in which she defeated Gulfstream Oaks winner Five G.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Though Five G will be labeled one of the speed horses going into the Kentucky Oaks on May 2 at Churchill Downs, trainer George Weaver said he doesn’t view his filly as strictly a need-the-lead type.

Yes, she won Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks by 2 1/4 lengths in front-running fashion, but Weaver said that was just how the race came up.

Sunday’s eight-race Aqueduct card was canceled due to loud music blaring from a car and bike show held in the parking lot of the Resorts World Casino, next door to the track.

The noise from the event - held just on the other side of where the quarter pole stands - created potentially unsafe racing conditions for the horses and jockeys, according to a statement from Andrew Offerman, senior Vice President of Racing and Operations for the New York Racing Association.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The Florida Derby has produced more winners, 25, than any other Kentucky Derby prep. Trainers Brad Cox and Bill Mott hope that trend continues when their leading Derby candidates Tappan Street and Sovereignty meet again at Churchill Downs on May 3.

Louis C. Peck, a jockey and trainer of distinction at Fairmount Park and on the Midwestern racing circuit for several decades, died at the age of 82 in Fairfield, Ill., on March 28. The day of his death also marked the 62nd anniversary of his wedding to his wife, LaDonna.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Sandman developed into a serious racehorse over the winter at Oaklawn Park and, after exiting his Saturday win in the Arkansas Derby in good order, will leave Monday for Churchill Downs to begin preparations for the Kentucky Derby, according to trainer Mark Casse. 

Sierra Leone, the reigning 3-year-old champion male, came out of his third-place finish in the Grade 2 New Orleans Classic on March 22 in good order, said trainer Chad Brown, who added that he does not have a definitive next spot picked out.

In his first start since winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar last November, Sierra Leone was beaten 4 1/2 lengths by Touchuponastar in the New Orleans Classic.

Moira, the champion turf female of 2024, has been nominated to three Group 1 races in Australia in early April.

Moira won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar last November for trainer Kevin Attard. Two days later, Moira was listed as sold for $4.3 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in Kentucky.

Sent to Australia following the sale, Moira is owned by Yu Long Investments and based with Chris Waller, annually one of Australia’s leading trainers.