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By Mike Henry —- ‘DERBY FEVER’ TO ARRIVE HERE SATURDAY, ALONG WITH TOP TRAINERS, JOCKS OLDSMAR, FL. – After an unseasonably cold January, spring is in the air along Florida’s west-central coast. The ideal weather has afflicted many of the area’s countless Thoroughbred...

By Mike Henry —- FULL FIELDS FOR TURF STAKES SAT.; DAVIS NOMS OUT; PICK-5 CARRYOVER $46K OLDSMAR, FL. – Pasco Stakes winner Naughty Rascal, graded-stakes winners Disco Time and Poster and impressive Gulfstream Park maiden winner Grande are among 35 3-year-olds nominated to...

By David Joseph —- Donut God Brings Supreme Form into Saturday’s Swale Mi Bago Heads Casse-Trained Trio in Kitten’s Joy Vixen Boasts Grade 1 Credentials for Sweetest Chant HALLANDALE BEACH, FL — Flying Dutchmen Breeding and Racing LLC’s Donut God likely would have been...

By David Joseph —- Ferocious, Guns Loaded Top $265,000 Holy Bull (G3) Headlines Five Stakes for 3YOs Worth $925,000 Feb. 1 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Twice Grade 1-placed Ferocious, Grade 3 winner He’s Not Joking and last-out Mucho Macho Man winner Guns Loaded top a field of...

By David Joseph —- Derby Winner Mystik Dan Begins Year in $3 Million Pegasus World Cup Favored Locked Draws Post 11, White Abarrio Post 4 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Ken McPeek describes saddling Mystik Dan to victory in last year’s Kentucky Derby (G1) as reaching “the...

By Joe Kristufek —- Thursday’s Racing Card Moved to Monday * Schedule change due to incoming extreme weather conditions New Orleans, La (January 20, 2025) – Due to the extreme weather conditions that are expected the next couple of days, the nine-race Fair Grounds program...

$1 MILLION NYRA BETS HASKELL LEADS 2025 MONMOUTH STAKES SCHEDULE; TOTAL STAKES PURSES NEAR $8 MILLION FOR 50-DAY STAND Oceanport, N.J. – Led by the Grade 1, $1 million NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes, Monmouth Park is set to offer $7.8 million in stakes races when the track kicks...

By Victor Ryan —- RESCHEDULED CALIFORNIA CUP ON SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS 5-DAY RACE WEEK AT SANTA ANITA STARTING THURSDAY ARCADIA, CA (Jan. 12, 2025)—Santa Anita Park, which canceled racing this weekend due to the Los Angeles County fires, will host five straight days of live...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Built; Hodges Photo Gun Runner Winner Built Returns in $250,000 Lecomte, Faces Thirteen in “Road to the Derby Day” Finale Simply Joking Stretches Out in the $150,000 Silverbulletday New Orleans, La (Jan. 12, 2025) – Exiting a dominant gate-to-wire win in...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Fair Grounds Releases Nominations for Road to the Derby Day Stakes Action Hernandez Jr. and Graham Finalists for Prestigious Woolf Award Louisiana Derby Poster Contest Submissions to Close on Jan. 15 New Orleans, La (Jan. 9, 2025) – Fair Grounds Race...