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By Mike Willman —- STREAKING EXPRESS TRAIN LOOMS A STANDOUT IN SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 CALIFORNIAN STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLDS & UP GO 1 1/8 MILES CALIFORNIAN IS AN ICONIC PREP TO GRADE I HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP ON MAY 30 ARCADIA, Calif. (April 27, 2022)—In search of his...

By Mary Eddy —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Klaravich Stables’ multiple graded stakes-placed Value Proposition will return to sprinting for the first time since November when he contests Saturday’s $100,000 Elusive Quality for 4-year-olds and upward going seven furlongs over the Widener...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Friday, April 22, 2022) – It’s a clash of champions, times two. Eclipse Award winners Letruska and Ce Ce meet for the first time in the $1 million Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) Saturday at Oaklawn, a 1 1/16-mile blockbuster event for older...

By Robert Yates —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Friday, April 15, 2022) – Jackie’s Warrior, an Eclipse Award winner as the country’s champion male sprinter of 2021, is scheduled to make his 4-year-old debut in Saturday’s $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap (G3) for older horses at 6...

By Mike Willman —- MESSIER PRIMED FOR TOP EFFORT AS YAKTEEN SADDLES THREE IN SATURDAY’S GRADE I, $750,000 RUNHAPPY SANTA ANITA DERBY AT 1 1/8 MILES WINNER TO RECEIVE 100 QUALIFYING POINTS TO KENTUCKY DERBY ON MAY 7 ARCADIA, Calif. (April 6, 2022)—Recently transferred from...

By Amy Owens —- LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY (April 6, 2022) – Lucky Seven Stable’s Smile Happy is the 9-5 morning-line choice in a field of 12 3-year-olds entered Wednesday for Saturday’s 98th running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) going 1 1/8 miles on the main track. A...

By Mary Eddy —- Sadie Lady back in action in Garland of Roses OZONE PARK N.Y. – Dennis Narlinger’s New York-bred Sadie Lady returns for trainer Rob Atras off a four-month layoff in Saturday’s $100,000 Garland of Roses for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up going six...

By Bob Mieszerski—- CYPRESS, Calif. – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will have three opportunities to win the Grade I, $300,000 Starlet – the final Grade I of 2021 for 2-year-old fillies – for a fifth consecutive year Saturday at Los Alamitos. The race at 1 1/16 miles is...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021) – Friday’s $150,000 Advent, Oaklawn’s first stakes race for 2-year-olds in almost 50 years, has drawn of a field 10, including unbeaten maiden special weights graduate Higher Standard for trainer Tom Amoss....

By Keith McCalmont —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Manzanita Stables’ well-bred Tap the Faith will make her stakes debut in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle, a nine-furlong test for juvenile fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack. The Demoiselle, which offers 10-4-2-1 Kentucky Oaks...