With top-ranked Kentucky Derby (G1) prospects including Commandment, Chief Wallabee, and Nearly, the March 28 Florida Derby (G1) shapes up as a pivotal and competitive test that figures to have major implications for the first Saturday in May.
Grade 1 winner Napoleon Solo was supplemented to the March 28 Arkansas Derby (G1) but instead the colt will next contest the Wood Memorial (G2) being run at Aqueduct Racetrack April 4.
The journey to the 2026 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course is already in progress. Now there's a new way to follow top contenders from around the globe.
Already a grade 2 winner at 2, Explora will try to secure a win at that level at 3 while taking a step toward the Kentucky Oaks (G1) when she faces an expected five other 3-year-old fillies in the Fantasy Stakes March 27 at Oaklawn Park.
On the March 23 episode of BloodHorse Monday: Starlight Racing's Corbin Blumberg talks Fulleffort's Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) win and Kentucky Derby (G1) plans, Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins recap last weekend's preps and preview this weekend's races.
Tattersalls Online and the Emirates Racing Authority have launched a second online horses-in-training auction to be held from March 26-April 1. The online sale will feature 195 lots and will be held as an alternative to the live end-of-season sale.
The George Woolf Award honors riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the individual and for the sport of Thoroughbred racing.
Benedetta, a group 1-winning mare with global appeal, is the latest star attraction added to the Inglis Chairman's Sale, which is due to take place in Sydney May 7.
After 25 years with Turfway Park, including the past 13 as its general manager, Chip Bach will retire April 1, concluding a career that helped guide the Northern Kentucky track through significant change and into a period of sustained growth.
Group 1-winning colt Vinrock will join the Yulong roster for 2026, entering the stallion market at an introductory fee of AU$22,000 (inc. GST).
Few people want a Dubai World Cup (G1) card winner more than trainer Jose D'Angelo, and few have a better chance of getting one in just a few days' time. D'Angelo, on his third trip to Dubai, will send out Bentornato in the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1).
The first weekend in May could be a banner one for Stoneriggs Farm. Breeder Robert Slack currently has a top-10 points earner for both the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1).
In a year in which three Maryland-bred runners were grade 1 winners, including a Breeders' Cup win, Mindframe is the 2025 Maryland-bred Horse of the Year, as well as champion older male.
Though he will spend the final weekend of the 2025-2026 Championship Meet honoring out-of-town commitments, jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. put the finishing touches on an expected record-extending seventh riding title Sunday at Gulfstream Park.
After winning the Essex Handicap (G3) at Oaklawn Park, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said Skippylongstocking would likely make his next start in the Alysheba Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs May 1.
According to trainer Michael McCarthy, Journalism could return in either the Oaklawn Handicap (G2) at Oaklawn Park or Ben Ali Stakes (G3) at Keeneland, both April 18, or wait for the Alysheba Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs May 1.
The New York Racing Association announced that the 2026 start of turf racing at Aqueduct Racetrack will be moved back two weeks due to the impact of heavy snowfall in January and February paired with continued cold overnight temperatures in March.
Chris Waller and James McDonald teamed up for a spectacular day of racing March 21 at Rosehill Gardens, landing the Rosehill Guineas (G1), George Ryder Stakes (G1), and Ranvet Stakes (G1) to give McDonald an Australasian record 131 group 1 wins.
Invincible Ibis got the perfect trip behind a hot pace to win the March 22 Hong Kong Derby in course-record time.
Powerful colt Guest House put a gilt-edged seal on his young sire Home Affairs' exciting stud career by delivering an immediate victory in the most important race in Australian breeding with his dominant Golden Slipper Stakes (G1) triumph March 21.
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