Fibonaccis Ride was two weeks away from a potential stakes appearance at Del Mar last fall when she was sidelined with an apparent abscess that kept her out of training for months.

With the issue long behind her, Fibonaccis Ride has her second start in an allowance race for California-bred 3-year-old fillies at 5 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Considering Fibonaccis Ride won her debut in a maiden race by six lengths at Los Alamitos last September, she is capable of another win on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – So far, only two colts have finished in front of Journalism, the favorite for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

One of them, Smooth Cruisein, won an allowance race at Santa Anita last Saturday in a career-best effort that has left trainer Karen Headley and co-owner Marsha Naify hopeful he can become a stakes winner in coming months.

Journalism has started five times, starting with a third behind Smooth Cruisein and Mellencamp in a maiden race at Santa Anita last October. Journalism has not lost since.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Five G, the Gulfstream Park Oaks winner, was scratched out of Friday’s $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks, trainer George Weaver said Thursday morning. 

“She’s been off her feed the last couple of days. She didn’t train with great energy this morning. I wasn’t happy the last couple of days. We don’t feel good about it,” Weaver said. “This is the type of race where you’ve got be 110 percent, and we don’t feel like she is.” 

Longtime Mid-Atlantic trainer Butch Reid won his 1,000th race on Monday when 4-year-old filly Jeanne Marie fired fresh off a layoff to win a $42,000 allowance at Parx Racing. Reid celebrated the milestone achievement with friends and family in a packed winner's circle after the race.

"You're never sure, but we were fortunate enough to have a big crowd show up that day and she got the job done," Reid said.

Trainer Brad Cox said that Dubai World Cup winner Hit Show and the 3-year-old Flood Zone, seventh in the U.A.E. Derby, could get back onto the work tab soon as they prepare for the remainder of their 2025 campaigns.

Cox said he was initially planning to give both horses a bit of a break, but from what he’s seen in their training neither one wants one.

“They’re not back on the work tab, but they certainly act like they’re ready to return to it,” said Cox, who has not yet given serious thought to where either would run next.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tappan Street, the Grade 1 Florida Derby winner who suffered a condylar fracture in his right foreleg during a workout Saturday at Churchill Downs, underwent successful surgery on Sunday and the prognosis is good for a return to the races later this year, his connections said.

“He should make a full recovery, Dr. [Larry] Bramlage was very optimistic about his chances to return to the races,” said Elliott Walden, president of WinStar Farm, which co-owns the colt.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Jareth Loveberry got his first chance to ride the Kentucky Derby in 2023 and put up a terrific ride aboard Two Phil’s who finished second to Mage.

When it came to the Derby, Loveberry, 37, thought he would be one and done.

“Going into that race I was very confident, I thought ‘Okay, I really like this horse, I like how it could play out.' He showed up and ran a really, really good second,” Loveberry said.  “I was pretty emotional after that race. It took 18 years to get there and I didn’t think I’d be back.”

Peter Stern, an executive with a San Francisco-based mobile workforce company, was appointed to the California Horse Racing Board by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

Stern’s appointment fills a vacant role on the seven-person racing board following the resignation of John Carvelli who was appointed in August and relinquished his position in February.