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By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – If you want to bring a smile to trainer Efren Loza, Jr.’s face on a day when he doesn’t win with both of his starters to improve to 10-for-18 at the meeting, mention Fear the Cowboy. The 6-year-old ridgling has earned $1,243,020 since Dec....

By Ed Golden —- • PROUD PAPA JOE SET FOR THE CALIFORNIAN • BALTAS TACKLES FAVORITE WITH FOURSOME • DERBY HORSES SET FOR WEEKEND BREEZES • INJURED ROMAN EXPECTED BACK IN A MONTH TALAMO SEEKS THIRD IN ROW ON DR. DORR Joe Talamo hopes to make it three in a row on Dr. Dorr when...

By Amy Owens —- THURSDAY, APRIL 26 Keeneland’s 16-day Spring Meet runs through Friday. Post time for the first race is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** • LANERIE STORY HIGHLIGHTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY HORSES AND HOPE PINK DAY • COX HAVING FUN IN QUEST FOR FIRST KEENELAND TRAINING TIT...

By Mike Willman —- STREAKING DR. DORR HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 CALIFORNIAN STAKES AT 1 1/8 MILES; RACE SERVES AS TRADITIONAL PREP FOR GRADE I GOLD CUP AT SANTA ANITA ON MAY 26 ARCADIA, Calif. (April 25, 2018)—A scintillating gate to wire minor stakes winner going...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – When his 3-year-old Florida-bred filly Crown and Sugar won the seventh race on the turf on Friday at Tampa Bay Downs, Darien Rodriguez was blissfully unaware that it was his 100th career victory as a trainer. Instead, Rodriguez’s greatest...

By Mike Willman —- IRISH-BRED PLEIN AIR HEADS SATURDAY’S MARATHON GRADE III, $100,000 SANTA BARBARA STAKES AT 1 ½ MILES ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (April 25, 2018)—Irish-bred Plein Air will hope to replicate her dazzling U.S. debut on Jan. 14 as she heads a field of six...

By Amy Owens —- Keeneland’s 16-day Spring Meet runs through Friday. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** • TRAINER AUSTIN TRITES TO SEND OUT FIRST RUNNER • @BETKEENELAND SETS HANDICAPPERS FOR FINAL DAYS OF SPRING MEET • KEENELAND WELCOMES FANS...

By Dave Wedge —- Prized colt to resume training next week LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 24, 2018 – Phoenix Thoroughbreds, Ltd., announces today that Gronkowski, a prized 3-year colt, will resume training next week in preparation for its U.S. debut at the Belmont Stakes, scheduled...

By Darren Rogers —- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, April 24, 2018) – Trainer Todd Pletcher’s four Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) hopefuls arrived at Churchill Downs at 2:30 Monday afternoon with the trainer following a few hours later. On Tuesday morning,...