HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – While the current crisis in the Middle East is a concern for everyone, a couple of locally based trainers, Jose D’Angelo and David Fawkes, are paying closer attention to the situation than most. Both are currently planning to run horses on the Dubai World Cup program on March 28 at Meydan Racecourse.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mike Pegram and the “car boys” arguably have the early favorite for the Kentucky Oaks after Explora won the Grade 3, $750,000 Honeybee last week at Oaklawn Park.
She went over $1 million in earnings with the victory, and now leads all fillies in points for the Kentucky Oaks with 95.
Bella Ballerina remains right on target for the Fair Grounds Oaks on March 21, and her trainer, Brendan Walsh, will be in other 3-year-old stakes action that day, too.
Walsh said there’s a good chance that Black Hornet, a closing 1 3/4-length winner of the Black Gold on Feb. 28, will switch from turf to synthetic and make his next start in the Jeff Ruby Steaks on March 21 at Turfway Park. The Calumet Farm homebred lost his first four races before landing a Fair Grounds turf maiden race and winning the Black Gold with an 85 Beyer Speed Figure.
Magnitude exited his facile Feb. 28 victory in the Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park in good order and is scheduled to breeze this weekend at Fair Grounds. He remains on course for the Dubai World Cup on March 28 at Meydan Racecourse, trainer Steve Asmussen said Thursday.
There Goes Harvard, winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup in 2022, was recently retired, trainer Michael McCarthy said earlier this week.
There Goes Harvard won his final start in the Grade 3 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita in February 2025. He was in training last summer and fall before the decision was made to end his career.
An 8-year-old horse by Will Take Charge, There Goes Harvard won five of 21 starts and earned $764,590 in a career that began in early 2021.
The revamped Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on turf will be run as a listed stakes at Del Mar in July.
The race was previously restricted to non-winners of a first-place purse of $50,000 or more to the winner at a mile or more in the calendar year in which it was run. The eligibility restriction often prevented two-turn stakes winners in the first six months of the year from starting in the Oceanside.
Last month, Del Mar announced that the Oceanside would be run without restricted eligibility and would be worth $150,000, an increase of $50,000 from past year.
Santa Anita has added Thursday, April 2 as a racing day to its current winter-spring meeting, the track announced recently.
The April 2 races will be part of a four-day racing week that includes the Santa Anita Derby program on April 4, one of the most highly anticipated days of the season. The April 4 program includes four other stakes, including the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks for 3-year-old fillies.
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Canaletto had the outside post when he won his maiden going a one-turn mile in an eight-horse field at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25. Saturday, he will again break from the outside post in a nine-horse field drawn Wednesday afternoon for the Grade 3, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
The Tampa Bay Derby, the 11th of 12 races Saturday at Tampa, offers its top five finishers qualifying points (50-25-15-10-5) to the May 2 Kentucky Derby.
Woodbine has announced the stakes schedule for its 2026 Thoroughbred meet, highlighted by the $1 million King’s Plate and the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile. There are 91 stakes in total, 39 of which are graded.
“We’re very proud of our stakes program at Woodbine and eagerly anticipate a season filled with outstanding competition,” said Woodbine Entertainment CEO Michael Copeland. “We look forward to welcoming our racing community and fans back to the track on April 18 for the start of another exciting racing season.”
Lovesick Blues was named 2025 California-Bred Horse of the Year in a ceremony on Monday night, but the equine guest of honor was more than 8,300 miles away in Dubai.
Lovesick Blues finished fifth in the Group 2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 14 and was transferred to Meydan Racecourse in Dubai shortly after that race in preparation for the Group 1 Golden Shaheen Sprint on March 28.