Dash Attack, Newgrange among dozen in Southwest
Southwest S. (G3) — Race 9 (5:22 p.m. ET) Saturday’s $750,000 Southwest S. (G3) at Oaklawn Park has attracted a field of 12, but most of the attention will be focused on the undefeated pair […]
Road to the Kentucky Derby
Three points to ponder: 2022 Lecomte
Pappacap serves as a barometer for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Epicenter hopes that a similar trip yields the same result, and a couple of stakes firsters are on the learning curve. […]
Pappacap heads nine-horse Lecomte; six fillies vie in Silverbulletday
Lecomte S. (G3) — Race 14 (7:20 p.m. ET) Pappacap, who entered the new year atop the Road to the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard, will look to maintain that position on Saturday when he faces […]
Regally-bred Courvoisier takes Jerome
Courvoisier entered Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome S. at Aqueduct with arguably the best pedigree of the eight newly-turned three-year-olds, but with only one career victory in four starts. The chestnut colt doubled that win total in […]
Ben Diesel, Home Brew head 14-horse Smarty Jones
The first of four Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifiers at Oaklawn Park, Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park will feature a full field of 14 at a two-turn mile distance. Top draws […]
Epicenter rolls in Gun Runner; North County rallies in time to claim Untapable
Sunday’s $98,000 Gun Runner S. at Fair Grounds, the newest addition to the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby series, fittingly went to Epicenter. The juvenile son of Not This Time is owned and trained, […]
Epicenter bids for sentimental victory in Gun Runner; California Angel to dirt for Untapable
The Fair Grounds Road to the Kentucky Derby gets off to its earliest-ever start in the Dec. 26 Gun Runner S., a new stepping stone to the traditional New Orleans series of the Lecomte (G3), Risen Star (G2), and Louisiana Derby (G2). […]
Make It Big stays unbeaten after Springboard Mile
Jockey Jose Ortiz swept the open two-year-old stakes at Remington Park Friday night, including the $401,200 Remington Springboard Mile aboard 13-10 favorite Make It Big. Invading from Gulfstream Park, where he had won twice against […]
Springboard Mile attracts field of nine
Remington Springboard Mile — Race 12 (11:28 p.m. ET) The $400,000 Remington Springboard Mile, which will be run late Friday night at Remington Park, is the penultimate point-scoring opportunity of the year for the 2022 […]
Slow Down Andy pulls off mild upset in Los Alamitos Futurity
Slow Down Andy toppled heavily favored Messier to claim Saturday’s $300,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), thus ending trainer Bob Baffert’s seven-race win streak in the 1 1/16-mile test for two-year-olds. Baffert, a 13-time winner of […]