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In recent years, U.S.-based trainers fortunate enough to have multiple Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls might try to chart different paths toward the first Saturday in May, perhaps with one runner coming in on Gulfstream Park and another bee Aqueduct racecourseor one up Santa Anita Park and another bee Oaklawn Park. While these decisions are still […]
In less than nine minutes and with limited debate, the Florida House of Representatives on Feb. 11 passed a bill that would end the requirement that the state’s two Thoroughbred racetracks race live to also be licensed for slot machines or card rooms. The vote count was 77-34. The House, with 114 members present, spent […]
Silent tactics will move to the $1 million Rebel Stakes (G2) on March 1 Oaklawn Park Following his victory in the Southwest Stakes (G3) on February 6, Mark Casse, the colt’s two-time Hall of Fame trainer, said on February 8. Silent Tactic received a preliminary Beyer Speed ​​Figure of 88, a career-high, after his 3 […]
The dark cloud that hung over the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) continues to loom. Ted Noffey the winner and subsequent champion of the division, has now finished second Mr. AP on the sidelines. This unfortunate development ensures that the near-flawless record of consistency remains intact when it comes to juvenile winners going to victory […]
The last Saturday in January, originally scheduled for three Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points races, will instead feature just one: the January 31 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) on Gulfstream Park. The other two Derby preps are the $1 million Southwest Stakes (G3). Oaklawn Park and the $200,000 Withers Stakes Aqueduct racecoursewill not take place this […]
Ted Noffey And Sovereignty Honored last week as the 2025 champion at the Eclipse Awards ceremony in Florida, this year remains popular choices in the early-season media voting. Spendthrift Farm’s undefeated Ted Noffey, trained by Todd Pletcher, leads the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Top 3-Year-Old Poll, while Godolphin’s Sovereignty, trained by Bill Mott, is ranked […]
While Florida’s Road to the Kentucky Derby begins Jan. 31 with the Holy Bull Stakes (G3), north of Gulfstream Park, the newly crowned champion of last year’s 2-year-old men’s division is busy preparing for his 3-year-old debut at the end of next month Trainer Todd Pletcher named the undefeated 2-year-old male champion Ted Noffey is […]
A Mott-trained colt starting the Kentucky Derby (G1) course is hardly news. But the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) January 31 at Gulfstream Park creates a wrinkle because it doesn’t include a starter for coach Bill Mott, but his son, Riley Mott. One season after Hall of Famer Bill won the Derby and Belmont Stakes (G1) […]
Preakness Stakes (G1)-winning jockey Umberto Rispoli will be sidelined for an unknown period of time after suffering ankle and leg fractures in a spill Jan. 24 in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes. His horse, Invincible Keen clipped heels in deep stretch and dislodged Rispoli. The 7-year-old gelding, trained by Phil D’Amato, was collared by […]
