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By Matthew Cox —- Justify scheduled to make his stakes debut in Arkansas Derby Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has won 13 Kentucky Derby prep races at Oaklawn since 2010, but never with a horse making just his third career start. That could change with Justify scheduled to...

By Michael Chamberlain —- LOUISIANA LEGENDS NIGHT AND THE $100,000 EVANGELINE MILE HIGHLIGHT THE NEW MEET OPELOUSAS, LA – The 53rd season of Thoroughbred racing at Evangeline Downs will begin on Wednesday, April 4 with a nine-race program. It will be the first of 84 racing...

By Ryan Martin —- NEW ORLEANS (March 28, 2018) – In the final stakes event of the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots’ Winter Meet, Tigertail Ranch’s Mobile Bay will put a four-race win streak on the line in the $75,000 Star Guitar Stakes, a mile-and-a-sixteenth event on...

By Mike Willman —- TOP DERBY PROSPECTS BOLT D’ORO & MCKINZIE EACH WORK IN PREPARATION FOR REMATCH IN GRADE I, $1 MILLION SANTA ANITA DERBY ON APRIL 7; ‘BOLT’ GOES HALF MILE IN 47 FLAT, WHILE MCKINZIE GOES FIVE FURLONGS IN 59.40 SANTA ANITA DERBY WINNER TO GET 100...

By Amy Owens —- Click here for the Keeneland Opening Weekend microsite, including complete lists of nominees and past performances Breeders’ Cup Winners Caledonia Road and Rushing Fall Headline Stellar Roster of Nominations for Opening Weekend of Keeneland’s 2018 Spring...

By Matthew Cox —- The Southern California-based, 5-year-old son of champion Lookin At Lucky, was a 5 ½-length winner of the $600,000 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) March 10 at Santa Anita to reach seven figures in career earnings. The Grade 1 winner and millionaire is targeting...

By Ed Golden —- INSTILLED REGARD WORKS FOR SANTA ANITA DERBY ESPINOZAS POST SANTA ANITA TRIPLE ON SATURDAY MIDNIGHT BISOU AMONG 257 SANTA ANITA WORKERS Instilled Regard; Zoe Metz Photography INSTILLED REGARD IN ‘GOOD’ DRILL FOR SANTA ANITA DERBY Instilled Regard, prepping...

By Ryan Martin —- • Gr. II New Orleans ‘Cap Winner Good Samaritan Has Options • Synchrony Could Be Churchill Bound PLETCHER GETTING IN KENTUCKY DERBY STATE OF MIND WITH NOBLE INDY Saturday’s Grade II Louisiana Derby Presented by TwinSpires.com winner Noble Indy is scheduled...

By Matthew Cox —- Cosmic Burst; Oaklawn/Coady Photography Honeybee Winner Cosmic Burst pointing for the Fantasy at Oaklawn in April Cosmic Burst was breezing for the first time since winning the $200,000 Honeybee Stakes (G3) for 3-year-old fillies on March 10. The Honeybee...