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Stellenbosch and Sixpence look to make a mark for the 4-year-old generation in the Osaka Hai (G1) April 6 at Hanshin Racecourse.

The Jockey Club announced that the 2025 edition of the Fact Book is available in the Resources section at jockeyclub.com.

Bob Ehalt previews the field for the April 7 Ashland Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.

The UAE Derby (G2) has yet to produce a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner but it nearly happened last year, when Forever Young came within two noses of taking the opening leg of the Triple Crown.

In a week where the world’s best horses, jockeys, and trainers are on show, few have attracted more attention than James McDonald, whose partnership with Romantic Warrior has brought him to the Dubai World Cup meeting for the first time.

ABR's Mike Curry previews the field for the Santa Anita Oaks (G2).

Dubai Racing Club media provides notes on final preparations of leading contenders ahead of the April 5 Dubai World Cup meeting at Meydan.

It wouldn't quite be fair to say that the team around Facteur Cheval (IRE), who is owned by Team Valor International and Gary Barber, were anonymous in the week building up to the 2024 Dubai Turf (G1T). 

Reigning Eclipse champion turf female Moira and three-time North American grade 1 winner Anisette are set to make their seasonal debuts April 5, but they'll do so south of the Equator in the Doncaster Mile (G1) at Randwick Racecourse.

Trainer John Toscano Jr. died April 3 in a Long Island, N.Y., hospital, according to Daily Racing Form. He was 80.

Leaders in the United States and Canada have indicated they will honor the existing United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for some goods, including Thoroughbreds. Horses will continue to cross the U.S.-Canada border duty-free.

West Point Thoroughbreds, Woodford Racing, and CJ Stables' Statesman has won his last two races and steps up in class for the $750,000 Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) April 5 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

After seeing her unbeaten streak come to an end in the Honeybee Stakes (G3), last year's Demoiselle Stakes (G2) winner Muhimma will try to return to her winning ways in the rescheduled Ashland Stakes (G1) April 7 at Keeneland.

The weather-delayed Appalachian Stakes (G2T) on April 8 for 3-year-old fillies looks about as competitive as a race can be.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 107 entries for the Fasig-Tipton April Digital Sale. Bidding opened April 3 and will close April 9, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, instead of April 8 as originally scheduled.

The Road, presented by Gainesway and Darby Dan Farm

Dual Derby hero and six-time elite-level winner Auguste Rodin will shuttle to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand and he will stand his first Southern Hemisphere season for an introductory fee of US$17,454.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 107 entries for its April Digital Sale. Bidding opened April 3 and will close Wednesday, April 9, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, instead of Tuesday, April 8 as originally scheduled.

"Inside Churchill Downs," the popular weekly horse racing radio show, returns for its 11th season April 4 at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN Louisville's ESPN 680/105.7.

Most of the racehorses entered in these races have previous experience on the Road to the Kentucky Derby and several have strung together a sequence of impressive stakes wins, but some are entered for their first try in a stakes race.