Trikari , a grade 1-winning millionaire by Oscar Performance , tries to end a three-race slide and return to the winner’s circle in the $250,000 Dinner Party Stakes (G3T) May 17 at Pimlico Race Course. The 1 1/8-mile turf test for 3-year-olds and up serves as the appetizer ahead of Pimlico’s Saturday main course, the $2 million Preakness…
Journalism may be in the record books as the seventh straight beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1), but that doesn’t mean trainer Michael McCarthy has lost any faith in his grade 1-winning 3-year-old colt. “I’ve lost zero confidence in him,” McCarthy said about the son of Curlin . “When he worked on the Sunday before the…
Due to unsafe track conditions caused by the inclement weather, Delaware Park has cancelled the Opening Day live racing card scheduled for May 14. The 2025 live racing will begin this Saturday, May 17. The eight-race card has a first race post time of 12:35 p.m. Sign up for BloodHorse Daily This press release has…
An attorney for track operator Churchill Downs Inc. told the Louisiana Racing Commission May 13 that Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots would not proceed with its 2025-26 meet without legislative relief, according to published reports. CDI’s attorney, Ozair Shariff, speaking before racing commission in New Orleans, stated that operations at Fair Grounds are unprofitable without…
Pimlico Race Course, the city of Baltimore, and the state of Maryland will celebrate the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1) May 17, but it appears Mother Nature did not get the memo about the festivities as there is an abundance of rain in the forecast this week. The $2 million, 1 3/16-mile Preakness…
By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_Keelerman Although Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Sovereignty is skipping Saturday’s 150th running of the $2 million Preakness (G1) at Pimlico, the second leg of the Triple Crown has nevertheless drawn a quality field. A couple of proven Grade 1 winners have joined the nine-horse lineup,…
If you go back in time to the middle of March, “The Avengers” ownership group had a pretty impressive Triple Crown depth chart. All trained by Hall of Famer and two-time Triple Crown winner Bob Baffert, it included 2-year-old champion Citizen Bull , Madaket Road , Rodriguez , Getaway Car , and Cornucopian Now let’s look ahead to May 17…
The Fasig-Tipton May Digital Sale closed May 14 with 98 horses sold for $3,786,000. The sale averaged $38,632 with a clearance rate of 83%, and a median of $15,500. The catalog offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, 2-year-olds in training, broodmares (including mares with foals at foot), and yearlings. Ifurhappynuknowit (Hip 30) topped the…
Scheduled to join Burnham Square , the sixth-place finisher from the Kentucky Derby (G1), in the $400,000 Matt Winn Stakes (G3) June 8 at Churchill Downs is Coal Battle , 11th in the Derby. Both horses have remained stabled at Churchill Downs since the May 3 Run for the Roses. Norman Stables’ Coal Battle, the Rebel Stakes…
The opening under tack show session for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale will begin at 9 a.m. ET May 14, a one-hour delay from its originally scheduled start time of 8 a.m. The one-hour delay will provide the track maintenance staff additional time to prepare the racetrack following rains that have affected…
