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Breeders' Cup released the 2024 schedule for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Dozen April 8, an incentive-based participation bonus program for horsemen pointing runners to the dirt races in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.

The field for the 150th Kentucky Derby (G1) is almost set, but the 1 1/16-mile $400,000 Lexington Stakes (G3) at Keeneland April 13 provides a final opportunity to make Derby dreams come true.

Sam Houston Race Park closed the curtain on its 30th anniversary Thoroughbred live racing season April 7. Competitive racing and excellent weather prevailed for the majority of the 43-day meet, which began Jan. 5.

The much-anticipated sale of a yearling filly out of four-time Australian Horse of the Year Winx (AUS) lived up to the hype April 8 when she sold for AU$10 million (U.S. $6.6 million) at Inglis' 2024 Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-year-olds In Training Sale got under way with the first of seven under tack shows April 7.

A return to one-turn proved a difference maker for Denim and Pearls April 7 as she romped in the seven furlong $400,000 Beaumont Stakes (G2) at Keeneland.

Fandom (GB) returned a winner at Keeneland April 7 in $250,000 Palisades Stakes, overtaking an impressive group of runners at the finish at the same meet he broke his maiden.

Inglis set a new record price for a filly sold at its Australian Easter Yearling Sale, but the AU$2.2 million daughter of Zoustar (AUS) may have the honor for less than 24 hours.

Chad Brown sends out a strong hand of fillies and mares, led by grade 1 winners Gina Romantica and Surge Capacity, in search of his seventh Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) victory in the last 10 years.

When Wood Memorial (G2) winner Resilience was a foal, he carried himself in the way that elite racehorses do; with a self-assured manner that showed he knew what was expected of a horse with his pedigree.

Stellenbosch turned the tables on Japan's reigning 2-year-old filly, Ascoli Piceno, in the first leg of the country's filly Triple Crown, the Oka Sho (Japanese One Thousand Guineas-G1).

Fifty-two ready-to-run juveniles are cataloged for the Chiba Thoroughbred Sale of 2-Year-Olds at Funabashi Racecourse May 10.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the photo examined by the Keeneland stewards in the April 7 opener was worth much more to Spendthrift Farm as their stallion Thousand Words achieved his first winner from his first starter.

On a brisk Sunday morning at Churchill Downs April 7, Louisiana Derby (G2) runner-up Honor Marie and fourth-place finisher Track Phantom returned to the work tab as they train towards the 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) May 4.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed against a former Kentucky trainer and Churchill Downs by a woman who was bitten by a horse on the Churchill Downs backstretch.

Rick and Sharon Waller's homebred Stronghold prevails by a head in a test of wills against even-money favorite Imagination in the April 6 $750,000 Santa Anita Derby (G1) at Santa Anita Park. He has 100 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Morplay Racing's No More Time breezed a half-mile April 6 at Palm Meadows Training Center in preparation for a planned start in the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).

Nothing Like You, ridden by superstar Frankie Dettori and trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, upsets Baffert-trained odds-on favorite Kinza in Santa Anita Oaks, giving Dettori his fifth consecutive win on the program.

On the upcoming first Saturday in May, Bill Mott may get another crack at winning the Kentucky Derby (G1) in a more time-honored fashion after sending out Emily Bushnell and Ric Waldman's Resilience for a 2 1/4-length victory in the Wood Memorial.

Arzak swept by rivals in the final furlong to win the Shakertown Stakes (G2T) April 6 at Keeneland.