Barn Notes

By Michael Adolphson —- • Farrell Has First Work Since Rachel Alexandra • Honorable Duty On Course for New Orleans Handicap • Valadorna Works Toward Ashland • Worker to Watch: Hollywood Handsome FARRELL HAS FIRST WORK SINCE RACHEL ALEXANDRA Coffeepot Stables’ homebred star...

BY ED GOLDEN / MIKE WILLMAN —- Doug O’Neill; Benoit • O’NEILL HAS ‘11- 4 THE MONEY’ ON SATURDAY • ‘CLASS IS IN’ THROUGHOUT DAY IN PADDOCK • WHITE’S MORNING LINE AVAILABLE FOR ALL SATURDAY STAKES TEAM O’NEILL SET FOR BUSY DAY WITH 11 HORSES ENTERED The big boys come...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Busy Day for Rebel Stakes Workers It was a busy morning for 3-year-olds pointing towards the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) March 18 with top local prospects Petrov, Silver Dust and Uncontested all posting impressive works. Co-owner/trainer Ron Moquett of...

By ED GOLDEN / MIKE WILLMAN —- Dortmund; Benoit • CLASSY DORTMUND GOES GREEN IN KILROE MILE • FOUR-TIME ECLIPSE CHAMP CASTELLANO HERE ON SATURDAY • VINTAGE 1940 STARTING GATE ON DISPLAY IN PADDOCK GARDENS • TWO-TIME BIG ’CAP WINNER JOHN HENRY BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1975 •...

By Michael Adolphson —- • Hogy to Shakertown, Declines Dubai Invite • Tom’s d’Etat Nearing Return • Stakes Horses on Work Tab FOREVAMO READY FOR ROUND TWO Brittlyn Stable’s popular multiple graded stakes-placed colt Forevamo did not prove victorious in his 2017 unveiling,...

By Mike Henry —- Todd Pletcher; NYRA File Photo PLETCHER’S PRESENCE LIKELY TO BE FELT ON FESTIVAL DAY OLDSMAR, FL. – The defections of record-setting Sam F. Davis Stakes winner McCraken and Eclipse Award Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Classic Empire have led many observers to...