Mon, 03/02/2026 - 13:44

Luv Your Neighbor headed to Ashland or Virginia Oaks

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Luv Your Neighbor (left) finished second last out to Bella Ballerina (right) in the Rachel Alexandra at Fair Grounds.

The 3-year-old filly Luv Your Neighbor has, remarkably, finished second four times during this Fair Grounds meet. She’s unlikely to do so again because Luv Your Neighbor probably won’t contest the Fair Grounds Oaks on March 21, trainer Michael Stidham said Monday.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 13:40

DeVaux extends She Feels Pretty's break with plans to be determined

Barbara D. Livingston
She Feels Pretty, the 2025 champion older turf female, will get an extended break of 60 to 90 days.

Champion mare She Feels Pretty’s 2026 season has gone into a holding pattern.

Had her winter schedule proceeded as planned, She Feels Pretty would be in steady training by now with one of trainer Cherie DeVaux’s strings. Instead, the 5-year-old mare remains at the Ocala, Fla., farm where she has been stabled since shortly after a second-place finish Nov. 1 in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Despite that defeat, She Feels Pretty won an Eclipse award as champion female turf horse of 2025 for the Lael Stable of Roy and Gretchen Jackson.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 13:33

Brown pointing Rated by Merit, Praetor toward Carter

Barbara D. Livingston
Trainer Chad Brown is pointing Rated by Merit, and stablemate Praetor, toward the Grade 2 Carter at Aqueduct.

Rated by Merit, undefeated in five career starts, will be pointed to the Grade 2, $300,000 Carter Stakes on April 4 at Aqueduct, trainer Chad Brown said. Brown said he also plans to run recent allowance runner-up Praetor in that seven-furlong race.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:56

Casse duo primed for allowance sprint

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Midnight Martini was a very impressive debut winner over the turf on Jan. 30.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Racing resumes Thursday with a 10-race program highlighted by a $54,000 allowance dash carded at five furlongs on the Tapeta for Florida-bred 3-year-olds. The race drew a field of just six, topped by the Mark Casse-trained duo of Midnight Martini and Augustinian, along with the stakes-placed Skipping Stars.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:51

Joseph anxious to start Code Review; White Abarrio turns in work

Barbara D. Livingston
Code Review launched his career Jan. 25, running to his 3-5 backing with a workmanlike 1 1/2-length victory going six furlongs.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Code Review is currently not the most accomplished 3-year-old in the barn of Gulfstream Park’s leading trainer, Saffie Joseph Jr. With only a single start on his résumé, he’s flying under the radar behind stablemates Solitude Dude and Bravaro.

But the well-bred son of Uncle Mo gives the impression he could ultimately end up the best of the group as he progresses through his sophomore season.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:30

Super Corredora to Santa Ysabel; Journalism works

Barbara D. Livingston
Super Corredora won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31 at Del Mar.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Super Corredora, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2025, will have her second start of 2026 in Sunday’s Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles, trainer John Sadler confirmed over the weekend.

Super Corredora, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31 at Del Mar, finished last of four in the Las Virgenes Sakes at a mile on Feb. 8 at Santa Anita. She has since worked twice, most recently going five furlongs in 59.60 seconds on Sunday. The time was one of the quickest at the distance on a busy morning.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:28

D'Amato eyeing Grade 1s for Thought Process

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Thought Process has won 6 of 8 starts on turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Thought Process, winner of the Grade 2 Buena Vista Stakes on turf last Saturday at Santa Anita, is scheduled to have a 2026 season focused on making the 4-year-old filly a Grade 1 winner. The question of how many races will be tried at that level will be determined soon.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said Sunday that the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes, a $300,000 race for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf on May 25 at Santa Anita, is the main goal of the spring.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:27

Cox well stocked for Tampa Bay Derby Day

Barbara D. Livingston
Trainer Brad Cox will likely run Disco Time in the Grade 3, $125,000 Challenger Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on dirt.

Trainer Brad Cox will likely have the favorite in the Tampa Bay Derby in Further Ado, but he is also likely to have big chances in several of the other stakes on Saturday’s card.

Cox said Sunday that he will probably run Disco Time in the Grade 3, $125,000 Challenger Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on dirt. Disco Time, who won his first five starts, including three stakes, suffered his first career defeat in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup when he got involved in a speed duel and faded to eighth.

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:24

El Potente to run in Frank Kilroe Mile instead of Dubai

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El Potente won the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf by a commanding 3 3/4 lengths on Feb. 7 at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – After being considered for a trip to Dubai later this month, El Potente will remain in California for Saturday’s Grade 2 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita.

Military action in Iran, which led to drone strikes in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday and Sunday, was part of the decision, according to trainer Dan Blacker.

“As it turned out, that was a factor,” Blacker said Sunday. “It’s too much of a risk. We left the door open until yesterday.”

Mon, 03/02/2026 - 12:24

Pletcher seeks seventh Tampa Bay Derby win

Tom Keyser
Powershift (3) was narrowly beaten by Emerging Market (inside) on debut in a swiftly rated mile-and-40-yard maiden race at Tampa on Feb. 7.

Last month, trainer Todd Pletcher won a record-extending eighth Sam F. Davis Stakes with the maiden Renegade. Saturday, Pletcher will try to win a record-extending seventh Tampa Bay Derby with the maiden Powershift.