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- Harris to Return as Announcer at Emerald Downs (4/25/2024) - When Emerald Downs begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4, a familiar voice returns to the announcer’s booth high atop the grandstand: Tom Harris.
- BloodHorse MarketWatch: Classic Contenders at Auction (4/25/2024) - A look at where American classic contenders have been found at public auctions and their average price by horse type.
- Churchill Officials Proud of Venue That Awaits Fans (4/25/2024) - Officials with Churchill Downs Inc. April 25 sounded a bit like a gift giver looking forward to the receiver’s reaction as they discussed changes, centered on a $200 million new paddock, that await fans arriving Kentucky Derby week this year.
- Bidding Opens for Fasig-Tipton Mensa 'Flash Sale' (4/25/2024) - Mensa is stabled at Churchill Downs and will train each day at 9:10 am in a special saddle cloth. Prospective buyers can follow him back to Barn 36 post-training to inspect him.
- No Nay Mets, Next Star in Churchill Feature Stakes (4/25/2024) - Star router Next and the speedy No Nay Mets are among the top contenders in two of Churchill Downs’ featured stakes races May 1 leading up to Kentucky Derby (G1) weekend.
- Muth Favored Over Fierceness in Preakness Future Wager (4/25/2024) - Kentucky Derby (G1) favorites Fierceness and Sierra Leone will open as the second and third choices behind Muth in the Preakness Future Wager when the final pool opens April 26.
- Jockey Toledo Out Two Months Due to Collarbone Injury (4/25/2024) - Jevian Toledo, four-time leading rider at Laurel Park, had minor surgery to repair a dislocated collarbone suffered during a spill April 21.
- Honor Marie Catches the Eye in Final Derby Breeze (4/25/2024) - Ribble Farms, Michael Eiserman, Earl Silver, Kenneth Fishbein, and Dave Fishbein’s Honor Marie drilled an eye-catching five-furlong bullet in :59 1/5 at Churchill Downs April 25, his final work before the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).
- Balnikhov Faces Full Field in San Fran Mile Repeat Bid (4/25/2024) - It will be a bittersweet day at Golden Gate Fields April 27 as the $175,000 San Francisco Mile Stakes (G3T) is slated to be the last stakes race ever held at the track that opened in 1941.
- Pricilla Schaefer on Riding Two KY Derby Contenders (4/25/2024) - Pricilla Schaefer, exercise rider for Danny Gargan, gets to ride two Kentucky Derby contenders each morning in Dornoch and Society Man.
- Kagno, Hill to Serve as Interim Jockey Club Stewards (4/25/2024) - Juliet Kagno will serve as The Jockey Club steward for the remainder of Aqueduct spring meet and for the Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet while Dr. Ted Hill will assume the steward position during the Saratoga summer meet.
- Savabeel's Son Mo'unga Storms Into Newhaven Park (4/25/2024) - Mo’unga, the first multiple group 1-winning son of New Zealand’s eight-time champion sire Savabeel, has been retired to stud and will join the Newhaven Park stallion ranks for 2024; Benbatl’s fee set at AU$22,000 in first Southern Hemisphere season.
- 2024 Kentucky Derby: Analyzing the Potential Pace (4/25/2024) - Will we see a fast or slow pace in the Kentucky Derby? J. Keeler Johnson shares his thoughts.
- Recent Debut Fillies Supplemented to Keeneland April (4/25/2024) - A pair of 2-year-old fillies, fresh off their debuts at Keeneland, have been supplemented into Keeneland’s April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale that begins at 6:30 p.m. ET April 26, closing day of the spring meet.
- D'Amato Shaking the Turf Trainer Label With Stronghold (4/25/2024) - Long known for his skill in training turf horses, Phil D’Amato is making the most of an opportunity with the 3-year-old dirt horse Stronghold, winner of the Santa Anita Derby (G1) and pointed to the Kentucky Derby (G1) May 4 at Churchill Downs.
- Del Mar Announces $7.8M Stakes Program for 2024 (4/25/2024) - Del Mar is projecting more than $26.6 million in total purses over the course of the eight-week meeting, the seaside track’s 85th summer session. The seaside track will offer $7.875 million in stakes purses, including six grade 1 stakes.
- Woodbine Launches 129 Days of Racing April 27 (4/25/2024) - The 2024 season at Woodbine will consist of 129 race dates and runs through Dec. 15. The first two weeks of the meet will have racing held on Saturday and Sunday.
- Dancing Porky First Winner for Honor A. P. (4/25/2024) - Lane’s End’s Honor A. P. was represented by his first winner April 25 when Dancing Porky won the fifth race at Turf Paradise in his second career start.
Freshman Sire Honor A.P. Gets His First Winner At Turf Paradise (4/25/2024) - 5th-Turf Paradise, $30,000, Msw, 4-25, 2yo, 5f, :59.17, ft, 1 1/4 lengths. DANCING PORKY (c, 2, Honor A. P.–Morning Dance, by Broken Vow) recorded the first worldwide winner for his Lane’s End freshman sire Honor A.P. (by Honor Code), who has 80 foals of racing age to his credit. The juvenile, who debuted at Turf…
Justify, jockey Rosario to enter horse racing HOF (4/25/2024) - Triple Crown winner Justify, Gun Runner and jockey Joel Rosario were elected to horse racing’s Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.