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Stakes Advance – $400,000 Azeri Stakes (G2) Compiled by Robert Yates Contact: Chris Ho Vice President of Marketing cho@oaklawn.com, 501-623-4411 ext. 4201 Thursday, Mar. 5, 2026 OP Stakes Race Preview – $400,000 Azeri Stakes (G2) – Saturday, March 7 No horse has swept...

THURSDAY NOTES By Lynne Snierson OLDSMAR, FL— There’s a lot of chatter about Spendthrift Farm’s Grade 2 winner Further Ado, who is making the first appearance of his sophomore season in Saturday’s Tampa Bay Derby and is the morning line 9-5 favorite. But trainer Danny Gargan...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Thursday, Mar. 5, 2026 Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert sent two horses last week to Oaklawn for major Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks prep races. Baffert said Explora returned to Southern California following her three-quarter length...

By Lynne Snierson —- OLDSMAR, FL- Nine talented sophomores with Kentucky Derby aspirations will line up in the starting gate for the Grade 3, $400,000 ESMARK Tampa Bay Derby and the 1 1/16 miles test presents the highly anticipated showdown between Canaletto and Further Ado...

By Victor Ryan —- Benoit Photo EL POTENTE, GAS ME UP LEAD A DEEP GROUP OF OLDER TURF RUNNERS SET TO GO IN THE GRADE II FRANK E. KILROE MILE SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA ARCADIA, CA (March 3, 2026)—El Potente and Gas Me Up, the one-two finishers in last month’s Grade III Thunder...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2026 A nose separated dual Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse from a record-extending fourth consecutive victory in a Kentucky Derby qualifying race at Oaklawn. He’ll have an opportunity to begin a new streak later this...

By Victor Ryan —- CHAMPION SUPER CORREDORA LOOKS TO REBOUND IN GRADE III SANTA YSABEL FOR 3-YEAR-OLD FILLIES GOING 1 1/16 MILES SUNDAY AT SANTA ANITA Benoit Photo ARCADIA, CA (March 3, 2026)—Super Corredora, last year’s champion 2-year-old filly, will look to bounce-back...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Hodges Photography After “Nasty Nose” Loss to Boys, Bohemian Eyes Breakthrough in LaCombe NEW ORLEANS (March 4, 2026) – Narrowly denied in her lone attempt, Bohemian will try for her first stakes victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Allen “Black Cat” LaCombe...

Santa Anita PressBox — BREEDERS’ CUP WINNER SPLENDORA LOOMS LARGE IN SATURDAY’S GRADE I B. WAYNE HUGHES BEHOLDER MILE FOR FILLIES AND MARES AT SANTA ANITA ARCADIA, CA (March 2, 2026)—Splendora, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner, looms a likely heavy...

By Mike HENRY —- OLDSMAR, FL. – The biggest day of the 2025-26 Thoroughbred meet at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday promises excitement galore, with the added bonus of the emergence of one or more Kentucky Derby candidates from the Grade III, $400,000 ESMARK Tampa Bay Derby....