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  • T.I.P. Non-Competition Award Applications Available (5/13/2024) - T.I.P. recognizes and rewards the versatility of the Thoroughbred through sponsorship of Thoroughbred classes and high point awards at sanctioned horse shows, year-end performance awards, a recreational riding program, and non-competition awards.
  • Hernandez's Riding Passion Traces to Cajun Country (5/13/2024) - Cajun land has been a breeding ground for so many great jockeys, including Kentucky Derby (G1) winners Eric Guerin, Eddie Delahoussaye, Kent Desormeaux, and Calvin Borel.
  • TAA Launches Silent Auction Ahead of Preakness Party (5/13/2024) - The online silent auction coincides with the America’s Best Racing Pre-Preakness Party May 15.
  • Stakes Recap: Man O' War and Peter Pan (5/13/2024) - Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look back at the Man O’ War and Peter Pan.
  • A 30-Year Woodbine Thrill Ride for Husbands (5/13/2024) - Over Patrick Husbands’ his 30-plus years in the saddle, he has has crafted an enviable riding resume, one that showcases countless high-profile triumphs in some of Thoroughbred racing’s top events.
  • Del Mar Brings Back 'Ship and Win' for 14th Season (5/13/2024) - The highly successful “Ship & Win” and the relatively new, but solidly backed, Maiden Dirt Bonus once again will enhance the racing product of the shore oval as the track prepares to kick off its 85th summer stand.
  • Pyrenees Carries Winning Streak Into Pimlico Special (5/13/2024) - Blue Heaven Farm’s homebred son of Into Mischief has three consecutive wins since Dec. 15. He will be making his graded stakes debut in the May 17 Pimlico Special Stakes (G3).
  • Champion Turf Mare Inspiral to Face Males in Lockinge (5/13/2024) - Six-time group 1 winner Inspiral (GB) and French raider Big Rock (FR) are on course for a major mile clash May 18 at Newbury, with the talented pair among 11 confirmations for the Lockinge Stakes (G1).
  • O'Brien Believes City of Troy Can Bounce Back in Derby (5/13/2024) - Aidan O’Brien believes he has never sent a colt “with as much ability” to the Epsom Derby (G1) as City of Troy, despite last season’s star 2-year-old turning in a bitterly disappointing effort in the Two Thousand Guineas (G1) May 11 at Newmarket.
  • Mystik Dan Comfortable in First Visit to Pimlico Track (5/13/2024) - Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan made his first trip to the Pimlico Race Course main track May 13—a sealed and muddy surface—as he prepares for a start in the $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1) May 18.
  • Nurse Caralyn Becomes First Winner for Dolphus (5/13/2024) - Dolphus is a second-crop sire and half brother to 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra.
  • Higher Ed First Stakes Winner for Sporting Chance (5/13/2024) - J. Kirk and Judy Robison’s New Mexico homebred won the May 11 Kendrick Stakes by 4 1/2 lengths at Sunray Park.
  • Vekoma's First Starter, Fortuna Mia, Wins on Debut (5/13/2024) - The filly raced by owner/trainer Rey Hernandez won by four lengths May 13 at Horseshoe Indianapolis.
  • Muth Favored in Preakness, Mystik Dan Second Choice (5/13/2024) - Trainer Bob Baffert will try for his ninth Preakness Stakes (G1) win with 8-5 morning-line favorite Muth and 6-1 co-third choice Imagination. Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan is second choice at 5-2 for Saturday’s race at Pimlico Race Course.
  • Mystik Dan in 5 post for Preakness but not favored (5/13/2024) - Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan drew the No. 5 post position in the Preakness on Monday, while Bob Baffert-trained Muth, just inside Mystik Dan in the No. 4 post, opened as the 8-5 morning line favorite.
  • Muth Favored To Give Baffert A Ninth Win In the Preakness (5/13/2024) - In the few days after Mystik Dan (Goldencents) pulled an 18-1 upset in the GI Kentucky Derby, there was the real possibility that none of the 20 horses that competed in the first leg of the Triple Crown would press on to Saturday’s GI Preakness S. By Sunday afternoon, any such concerns had abated–the Derby…
  • Notable Speech On Course for St James’s Palace (5/13/2024) - Unbeaten G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas victor Notable Speech (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) has progressed well since that effort, and is on course for a try at the G1 St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot, trainer Charlie Appleby reported on the official Godolphin X feed on Monday. The contest is scheduled to go Tuesday, June 18…
  • Vekoma Gets First Winner With Fortuna Mia At Horseshoe Indy (5/13/2024) - 4th-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $32,000, Msw, 5-13, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :53.60, ft, 4 lengths. FORTUNA MIA (f, 2, Vekoma–Windy Lane, by Cairo Prince), dispatched at 5-1, quickly hooked up with Run Camila Run (West Coast) to her inside. The top pair opened up on the field and worked through an opening quarter in :22.45 before Fortuna…
  • Light Up Racing Webinar Set For Tuesday (5/13/2024) - FanDuel TV racing personality Christina Blacker will host a webinar for Light Up Racing (LUR) members Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. During the 1 1/2-hour session, entitled ‘This Derby, what horse racing questions did you struggle to answer?’ a panel of industry experts including Blacker, Dr. Jeff Berk, Dr. Jeff Blea…
  • Seven-Time Grade 1 Winner Native Upmanship Dies at 31 (5/13/2024) - National Hunt hero and seven-time Grade 1-winner Native Upmanship (Ire) (Be My Native) passed away at Coolmore Stud on Monday at 31, the farm announced via presser. A back-to-back victor of the G1 Melling Chase, the first of which coming in 2002, he visited the winner’s enclosure on 16 occasions with 13 coming at the…
  • Mystik Dan Gets First Feel Of Pimlico Main Track (5/13/2024) - Having arrived on a van from Louisville on Sunday, GI Kentucky Derby hero Mystik Dan (Goldencents) took to a sloppy and sealed main track at Pimlico Race Course for the first time Monday morning. If the bay looked at home in the wet conditions, it should come as no surprise. Prior to his narrow success…
  • Adelaide River, Changingoftheguard to Campaign in Australia for Lloyd Williams (5/13/2024) - Three-time Group 1-placed Adelaide River (Ire) (Australia {GB}) and multiple Group winner Changingoftheguard (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will make Australian debuts for seven-time Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams in Brisbane with a long-term goal of targeting the 164th G1 Melbourne Cup. The former, runner-up to the globetrotting multiple Group and Grade I winner Auguste Rodin (Ire)…
  • How a Rangel Earned His Wings (5/13/2024) - So what happens when you keep pursuing the dream, keep persevering, only to find that it’s taken you right to the cliff’s edge? At some point you quit, right? Not if you’re Ramon “R.J.” Rangel, you don’t. He was still working with yearlings at Dixiana when he leased his first 10 acres. His wife at…
  • Three Chimneys’ Three Cheers to the Breeder: Normandie Breeding (5/13/2024) - It was just five years ago when Guillaume Vitse left his longtime job at Haras de Colleville where he had helped build the farm from a start-up to a well-established French stallion station to forge his own path. “At one stage, you just feel like it’s time to go out on your own and buy…
  • O’Brien: ‘The Most Important Race Every Year is the Derby’ (5/13/2024) - TIPPERARY, Ireland — Aidan O’Brien walks into the semi-covered ride, shakes hands with each member of the assembled press pack and apologises for the rain. Within his private fiefdom of Ballydoyle there is plenty that he can control, particularly via the earpieces on each of his 50 riders currently warming up in front of him,…
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