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  • Fifth Season Stakes: Will Take It (2/6/2026) - Fifth Season Stakes
  • Baffert Aims for More Success in Robert B. Lewis Stakes (2/6/2026) - The Road, presented by Gainesway and WinStar Farm
  • Former Lukas Trainee Lemon Muffin a Longshot in Lukas (2/5/2026) - Lemon Muffin, a former D. Wayne Lukas trainee, will face 2025 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) winner Splendora in the $200,000 D. Wayne Lukas Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park Feb. 7.
  • Frigid Temperatures Cause Weekend Racing Cancellations (2/5/2026) - Due to frigid temperatures and windy conditions, Aqueduct Racetrack, Laurel Park, and Charles Town have preemptively canceled racing Feb. 7. Aqueduct also canceled racing Feb. 8
  • Tickets for Breeders' Cup at Keeneland on Sale April 21 (2/5/2026) - Tickets for the 2026 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, April 21.
  • Canterbury Park Announces 2026 Stakes Schedule (2/5/2026) - Canterbury Park announced Feb. 5, the 2026 Thoroughbred stakes schedule for its 51-day race meet that runs May 23-Sept. 19. The schedule includes 23 stakes and named allowances totaling $1.1 million in purses.
  • Southwest Stakes Next Test for Strategic Risk (2/5/2026) - After two runaway wins in ungraded stakes, Strategic Risk steps into graded company and a $1 million spotlight Feb. 6 in the Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park.
  • 1/ST, Arranca TV Launch Spanish Horse Racing Channel (2/5/2026) - 1/ST announced a new partnership with Arranca TV Feb. 5, launching a dedicated Spanish-language horse racing channel on YouTube designed to deliver live race coverage, analysis, and original programming to Spanish-speaking fans.
  • Stakes Preview: Southwest and Withers (2/5/2026) - Greg Wolf and Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn & Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
  • Confessional, Renegade to Battle in Sam F. Davis (2/5/2026) - Promising 3-year-olds Confessional and Renegade square off against seven other rivals in the Feb. 7 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
  • Sovereign Wealth Tops Tattersalls February Sale Opener (2/5/2026) - Turnover for the session closed at 1,863,000 guineas, a 26% year-on-year drop; the average price was down 19% at 17,745 guineas, while the median was down by 17 points at 12,000 guineas.
  • First Foals for National Treasure, Kingsbarns (2/5/2026) - The Spendthrift Farm stallions had their first reported foals arrive last month.
  • First Reported Foal by Arabian Knight is Born in Canada (2/5/2026) - Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms and Mario Serrani bred the chestnut filly born Jan. 1 out of Among the Roses, a winning daughter of Curlin.
  • Will Take It Slides Up the Rail to Take Fifth Season (2/5/2026) - Riding the rail under Ricardo Santana Jr., Will Take It came through a narrow opening in early stretch and outfought Woodcourt to win the $150,000 Fifth Season Stakes Feb. 5 at Oaklawn Park. 
  • FTC Rules Serpe Cannot Now Introduce New Evidence in 18-Month Old Clenbuterol Case (2/5/2026) - Trainer Phil Serpe, who is fighting both in federal court and at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) level to overturn a two-year suspension imposed by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) for a clenbuterol positive in one of his trainees, on Wednesday was notified by the FTC that his legal team would not be…
  • Justify Firster Unwritten Rule Debuts A Winner At Tampa (2/5/2026) - UNWRITTEN RULE (c, 3, Justify–Jewish Guilt, by Curlin) was one of the few first-timers in the field in this rained-off sprint debut. Prominent throughout from just off the leader, the 5-2 second choice kept things tight into the turn through an opening quarter in :22.44. Moving between rivals with just over a quarter-mile left to…
  • January Year-Over Wagering Numbers Swing Down With Lost Race Days (2/5/2026) - Wagering on U.S. races during the month of January experienced just over a six percent downswing from a year ago, but the number of race days was roughly 12 percent lower, according to information released by Equibase on Thursday. Total wagering of $753,930,913 on races during the month represented a 6.09% decrease over the same…
  • Despite Florida Series Opening, Plans Unchanged For Further Ado (2/5/2026) - The Spendthrift Farm team never wanted to run its pair of 3-year-old male ‘TDN Rising Stars, presented by Hagyard’, against one another during the lead-up to the GI Kentucky Derby. But that was no longer a problem when Ted Noffey (Into Mischief)–who was being pointed for the GII Fountain of Youth Stakes and the GI…
  • Champagne Stakes Hero Iberian To Stand In France (2/5/2026) - Iberian, a group-winning son of Lope De Vega, has been retired and will stand at Haras du Mazet in France, according to published reports. The G2 Champagne Stakes hero’s opening fee is €3,000. Bred by Ballylinch Stud, the five-year-old won the 2023 edition of the Champagne, and was also placed in that year’s G2 Vintage…
  • Unbeaten Champagne Winner Napoleon Solo Gearing Up at Palm Meadows (2/5/2026) - Unbeaten Napoleon Solo (Liam’s Map), unraced since a powerhouse, front-running victory in the GI Champagne S. at the Big A Oct. 4, is gearing up for his sophomore debut. The Gold Square colorbearer has posted four workouts for Chad Summers at Palm Meadows this winter, including a four-furlong bullet in :48 (1/19) Thursday. “He’s doing…
  • Friday Insights: Always A Runner Done With Target Practice, Now Sights Tampa Maiden (2/5/2026) - 3rd-TAM, $55K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1m 40yds, 1:36 p.m. ET. Three Chimneys bred ALWAYS A RUNNER (Gun Runner) as the first foal out of GSP Always Carina (Malibu Moon) who is the half-sister to Jeff Drown and Don Rachel’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero Structor (Palace Malice). The farm bought Always Carina’s dam, Miss…
  • Back Sooner Than Expected, Champion Nitrogen Will Kick Off Year In Saturday’s Bayakoa At Oaklawn (2/5/2026) - This wasn’t the plan. Jon Green, the general manager of D.J. Stable, and trainer Mark Casse were ready to give 3-year-old filly champion Nitrogen (Medaglia d’Oro) a nice break after her second-place finish in the GI Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff. But just 67 days after her last race, she will go in Saturday’s GIII Bayakoa…
  • Sovereign Wealth Leads Opening Session of Tattersalls February Sale (2/5/2026) - NEWMARKET, UK — A sale ring as full as any for the Sceptre Sessions greeted first the Retraining of Racehorses showcase and then the British EBF stallion parade for sires yet to have runners. Included in the 10-strong line-up for the latter was Eldar Eldarov, the winner of the St Leger in both Britain and…
  • D’code Heads Straight to the Big Leagues in Rescheduled Southwest (2/5/2026) - D’code (Speightstown), a jaw-dropping 8 1/4-length debut winner sprinting at Oaklawn Park Dec. 14, will make his highly anticipated two-turn debut in Friday’s postponed $1-million GIII Southwest S. in Hot Springs. The Tom Durant homebred and ‘TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard’ earned a field-best 99 Beyer Speed Figure while defeating 10 rivals that day.…
  • NYRA Puts Weekend Racing At Aqueduct On Ice (2/5/2026) - The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) canceled live racing on Saturday and Sunday at Aqueduct Racetrack due to arctic temperatures that will range from 23 degrees to as low as six degrees in Ozone Park and extremely low wind chill values forecast to impact the New York metropolitan area throughout the weekend, the track…
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