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In an exciting coup for Australian breeders, Darley has announced that elite stallion Too Darn Hot will return to Kelvinside for the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of AU$275,000 (approx. US$170,000).

During a contentious meeting of the Maryland Racing Commission April 9 at Laurel Park, commissioners approved a Maryland-bred race fund, stakes, and out-of-state bonus request after hearing from some frustrated equine industry participants.

Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna returns to grade 1 company as she aims to add her name to an illustrious list of winners in the $1.25 million Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) at Oaklawn Park.

A 10% share in 2024 Golden Slipper (G1) runner-up Coleman topped the Inglis Digital April (Early) Sale April 9, selling for AU$405,000 to STBT Bloodstock.

America's Best Racing has produced a multi-part video series, taking viewers behind the scenes to learn about the Stable Recovery program and some of the men impacted by this powerful initiative.

Capsule look at three horses heating up on the Triple Crown trail

Trainer Ian Wilkes shipped Burnham Square back to Churchill Downs to train for the Kentucky Derby (G1) after his April 8 victory in Keeneland's Blue Grass Stakes (G1).

Back off the bench for another season of racing, Carl Spackler returns to the sight of his most recent victory as the headliner in the $650,000 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (G1T) April 11 at Keeneland.

Prize money for the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) has been boosted to £1 million (US$1,278,030) this year, making it the richest race to be staged at Sandown.

The Lexington Stakes (G3) generally offers a last chance for a 3-year-old to move into the Kentucky Derby (G1). Not this year. With a maximum of 20 qualifying points, the winner of the April 12 stakes will fall far short of the cutoff to qualify.

The April 12 Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland does not have the word international in its title, but it might as well. Three of the favorites in the nine-horse, 1 1/16-mile turf race have raced exclusively overseas.

Brad Cox trainees Final Gambit and Good Cheer took to the Churchill Downs track April 9 to record five-furlong breezes.

Luxor Cafe, who qualified for the Kentucky Derby (G1) via a designated series in Japan, is scheduled to arrive April 23 at Churchill Downs, according to track publicist Kevin Kerstein.

Prize money for the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) has been boosted to £1 million (US$1,278,030) this year, making it the richest-ever race to be staged at Sandown.

Carmouche joined the 4,000 career-win club when he guided Crimson Light to a half-length win on April 5 at Aqueduct. The milestone led the panel of racing experts to unanimously vote Carmouche Jockey of the Week for March 31-April 6.

Byron King's Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.

Godolphin and trainer Michael Stidham were thinking big following a pair of allowance turf victories by homebred Think Big, and they were rewarded with a graded stakes victory in the $376,563 Shakertown Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland April 8.

Eight years after they ran McCraken in the Kentucky Derby (G1), jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., trainer Ian Wilkes, and owner Janis Whitham of Whitham Thoroughbreds are Derby-bound again with Burnham Square.

Winchell Thoroughbreds' son of Into Mischief got his fifth win from nine starts in the April 8 Commonwealth Stakes (G3) at Keeneland. The son of Into Mischief was purchased for $1.35 million at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Positano Sunset broke through at the top of the stretch and weathered contact to pull away late April 8 in the $623,338 Madison Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.