Total handle and average handle per race both declined slightly during Woodbine Racetrack’s recently concluded Thoroughbred meet despite a small uptick in purses, according to an analysis by Daily Racing Form.

Total wagering on Thoroughbred races during the 128-day meet dropped 3.9 percent, while average wagering per race declined 1.6 percent, according to the analysis. Woodbine raced 127 days this year, the same as 2024, but the track lost a number of races to weather cancellations, including five on Sunday, Woodbine’s closing day.

The Virginia Racing Commission has approved 48 days of live racing at Colonial Downs in 2026, the most expansive season in the track’s history. After a special three-day meet in March, Colonial will operate four days per week from Thursday, June 25, to Monday, Sept. 7.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Saturday’s stakes action gets off to a compelling start in race 5, the Janus, with Coppola and Reef Runner facing each other for the third time in the past year. The 11-race card is highlighted by the Grade 3 Harlan's Holiday and Fort Lauderdale Stakes. 

With Turfway Park forced to cancel Saturday night's program due to a brutal winter forecast, the track's Synthetic Championships, with a combined $1 million in stakes, will be moved to Sunday, Dec. 21. 

Turfway announced the cancellation on Saturday morning. The National Weather Service is calling for 3 to 7 inches of snow throughout the day and evening in Florence, Ky., with temperatures expected to fall into the single digits and wind chill values approaching minus-9 degrees overnight.

When Snide upset Friday’s fourth race at 28-1, it was the 165th training victory of 2025 for Linda Rice, establishing a record for most wins by a trainer in one year on the New York Racing Association circuit.

Rice broke the record she already shared with David Jacobson. Rice officially won 164 races in 2023 after having lost an additional victory, recorded by Afleet Arlene in January 2023, when that horse was disqualified first for a medication violation. Jacobson won 164 races in 2013.

The $500,000 Sunland Park Derby will anchor a card of six stakes worth $1.1 million when it is renewed on Feb. 15, according to a press release from Sunland. The New Mexico track opens its 55-date meet Jan. 2 and will race through April 5.

The Sunland Derby, which last year was worth $400,000, will be run over 1 1/16 miles. It offers Kentucky Derby points to the first five finishers on a scale of 20-10-6-4-2.

Kentucky Derby points will be on the line next Saturday when the unbeaten multiple stakes winner Arctic Beast meets Grade 3 winner Spice Runner and local stakes winners Essential Time and Royalamerican in the $300,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park.

The 2-year-olds are part of a field of 12 that was drawn on Friday. The Springboard Mile offers its first five finishers points on a scale of 10-5-3-2-1. Coal Battle, who won the race last season, went on to capture the Smarty Jones and Rebel at Oaklawn Park.

Five G, a two-time stakes winner at Gulfstream Park earlier this year, is scheduled to be loaded on a van on Saturday morning for a journey of approximately 2,600 miles from Palm Beach Downs in Florida to Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.

The purpose of the trip is a start in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, a $300,000 race for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs on Dec. 26, opening day of Santa Anita’s winter-spring meeting.

Considering her race record, the lengthy van ride and a layoff since late March may not keep Five G from having an important role in the race.

Full Serrano, one of California’s leading older males in the last 18 months, worked a half-mile in 48.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday for a 2026 campaign.

Full Serrano has not raced since he finished fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 1, a race he won in 2024 at Del Mar.

Trainer John Sadler said on Thursday that Full Serrano will miss the Grade 2 Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, opening day of the track’s winter-spring meeting.