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Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The last prep races for the 2024 Kentucky Derby were held on April 6 in New York, Kentucky and California. The Wood Memorial run at Aqueduct on Long Island could have been at Turf Paradise in Arizona...

Friday, April 5, 2024 Compiled by Robert Yates For Immediate Release Just Steel and Lemon Muffin are scheduled to depart Oaklawn in the next several days for Churchill Downs to continue preparations for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks, respectively, their Hall of Fame...

By Mike Henry —- DAD’S TURN IN SPOTLIGHT LEADS TO JOCKEY OF MONTH HONOR; IORIO WINS 3 OLDSMAR, FL. – Missing almost 11 weeks with a broken left wrist sustained in a training accident on Nov. 26 turned into an opportunity for Boot Barn Jockey of the Month Pablo Morales to...

STABLE NOTES BY VICTOR RYAN FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024 Juan Fernandez; Benoit Photo HERNANDEZ AIMS FOR 2nd DERBY WIN IN A WEEK WITH WYNSTOCK SATURDAY’S COAST-TO-COAST PICK 5 STARTS AT 1 P.M. PT 41 WORKERS EMPLOY NEW SYNTHETIC TRAINING TRACK FRIDAY ANGELS FLIGHT, JOHN SHEAR STAKES PUT...

By Amy Owens —- FRIDAY, APRIL 5 – OPENING DAY Keeneland’s 16-day Spring Meet opens today and runs through Friday, April 26. First post is at 1 p.m. ET except April 26, when the first race is at 12:30 p.m. Keeneland is closed for racing Mondays and Tuesdays....

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Aqueduct Racetrack Notes Rice kicks off Big A spring meet in style; El Grande O chasing Derby points in G2 Wood Memorial Mott holds strong hand with Resilience, Elysian Meadows for G2 Wood Memorial Deposition relishes nine-furlong G2 Wood Memorial...

D. Wayne Lukas, CDI, and April 6th Derby Preps By Bob Hill, TSV Writer —- Gulfstream Photo Last weekend D. Wayne Lukas gave Churchill Downs Inc. a less-than-subtle, well-deserved poke in the eye. After the Bob Baffert trained three-year-old colt Muth impressively won the...

Compiled by Robert Yates For Immediate Release The luck of the Irish came a bit late for owner/trainer John Haran. Haran, 13 days after St. Patrick’s Day, pulled maybe the biggest stakes upset of the 2023-2024 Oaklawn meeting when American Band captured Saturday’s six-furlong...

By Mary Eddy —- Deterministic leads 13-horse field for competitive renewal of G2 Wood Memorial OZONE PARK, N.Y. – St. Elias Stables, Ken Langone, Steven Duncker and Vicarage Stable’s Grade 3 Gotham-winner Deterministic vies to lock in his spot in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby...

By Amy Owens —- THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Keeneland’s 16-day Spring Meet opens Friday and runs through Friday, April 26. First post is at 1 p.m. ET except April 26, when the first race is at 12:30 p.m. Keeneland is closed for racing Mondays and Tuesdays. *************************...