Every thousandth of a second is crucial through the first three days of the Ruidoso Downs meeting that begins in southern New Mexico on Friday.

The Friday and Saturday programs consist of 32 time trials for the Ruidoso Futurity at 350 yards on June 8. The five runners with the fastest time from each day advance to the final. The Ruidoso Futurity is the first of three seven-figure futurities at the spring-summer meeting, culminating with the $3 million All American Futurity on Sept. 2.

On Sunday, there are 10 time trials for the Ruidoso Derby at 400 yards on June 7.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Forbidden Kingdom, the winner of three Grade 2 stakes, was sold for $310,000 during the Fasig-Tipton digital sale last week as a stallion prospect for 2025.

But the 5-year-old’s racing career may not be finished, trainer Richard Mandella said on Sunday. Forbidden Kingdom may have additional starts later this year after a short-term vacation at Pete Parrella’s Legacy Ranch, where the horse will be based as a stallion.

“We’ll give him a little rest and we might try him again before breeding season and see how it goes,” Mandella said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Frankie Dettori, who was based in Southern California earlier this year, will be back at Santa Anita for the first time since late April to ride the stakes-packed May 27 Memorial Day program.

It may be one of Dettori’s few appearances in Southern California in coming months. In the second half of the summer, Dettori will be based at Saratoga, according to his agent, Ron Anderson.

Dettori is booked on three mounts at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

The globe-trotting Kabirkhan has been transferred to trainer Brad Cox and is currently stabled at Churchill Downs, with plans calling for a campaign in the U.S. this summer and fall.

Cox said the 4-year-old, most recently a well-beaten eighth in the Dubai World Cup in March after winning 10 of his first 11 starts, arrived at Churchill early last week and has had daily gallops. Cox has yet to circle an initial start for the colt.

Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty has returned to trainer Cherie DeVaux’s barn at Keeneland, following her dominant season-opening victory in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes on Friday at Pimlico. After a summer stint in New York, her major late-season goal will be right back here at Keeneland.

“The big one would be the Queen Elizabeth in the fall,” DeVaux said. “A filly like this, it’s hard not to use that as the target instead of a Breeders’ Cup, so right now, that’s probably our long-term goal for this year.”

Messier, winner of the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes on May 3 at Aqueduct, recently underwent surgery to remove a knee chip, according to his connections, who hope to get him back later this year.

“We hope to get him back the same away,” trainer Rick Dutrow said. “It’s his second knee operation. He’s had two throat operations and he’s had a colic operation. I don’t know how many horses have five operations and keep going.

Corporate Power and Gould’s Gold, separated by a nose at the wire of Saturday’s Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico, will likely be graded stakes-bound at some point this summer, but neither are targeting the Belmont Stakes on June 8.

Shug McGaughey, trainer of Corporate Power, said his horse “still has a lot to learn,” but he was naturally pleased with the outcome Saturday.

“He’s coming along, he showed he’s got some ability,” McGaughey said. “He needs to race and learn. He’s spotty in his races. I think he wants to go a little farther than that on his best race, too.”