Stakes Recap: Jim Dandy & Lake George

Tickets for the 2025 Breeders’ Cup World Championships are on sale now at BreedersCup.com/Tickets. Beginning today, fans can secure their place at the 42nd running of the season-ending international championships, which will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif. Featuring 14 Grade 1 races and a robust undercard…

Image: Steve Hart The second of the majors at Randwick this Saturday is the TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), where Newmarket Handicap winner Joliestar heads betting. Down below is a speed map, runner preview and $100 betting strategy for the 2025 TJ Smith Stakes. *Existing customers only. 2nd Racing bet. Excl SA & WA. T’s &…

Oaklawn will offer the highest stakes purses for both fillies and colts on the road to Kentucky for the upcoming 2025-2026 racing season. The purse for Oaklawn’s Fantasy Stakes (G2), which launched the campaign of 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna , will increase to $1 million, and the Honeybee Stakes (G3) increases for the…

While the racing world crosses its fingers and hopes there will be a rematch between Sovereignty  and Journalism  in the Belmont Stakes (G1), it would be quite a mistake to sleep on Baeza . Sovereignty, who won the Kentucky Derby (G1) and skipped the Preakness Stakes (G1), and Journalism, who was second in the Run for…

Tom Pedulla is interviewing prominent owners, trainers, and jockeys as they travel the Road to the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) May 3 at Churchill Downs. This week’s installment features Brian Hernandez Jr., who joined trainer Ken McPeek in completing the  Kentucky Oaks (G1)–Kentucky Derby sweep last year with Thorpedo Anna  and Mystik Dan . Thorpedo Anna…

A total of 94 horses have been consigned to the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale set for April 2 at 10 a.m. at Lone Star Park, and the interactive sale catalog is now online. The breeze show is scheduled for March 31 at 8 a.m. at the Dallas-Fort Worth area track. Online bidding will be…