The 2026 Oaklawn Handicap (G1) feels like a throwback race to a bygone era in sport where true horse racing heavyweights of the handicap/older male division would meet regularly in marquee stakes across the country.
Hawthorne Race Course finalized plans April 15 to start its delayed 2026 Thoroughbred meeting April 19, its first day of operations since filing for bankruptcy protection.
Keeneland released the catalog April 15 for its April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale, which will be held the evening of April 24, following the races on the closing day of the spring meet.
As Day 2 of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale drew to a close, Machmer Hall celebrated a $1.2 million success when its colt by Cyberknife sold to John Sadler and L.E.B., agents for West Point Thoroughbreds and Mike Talla.
Haulin Ice will make her next start on grass, pointing to the May 1 Unbridled Sidney Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs, which could be a potential turf showdown with reigning champion female sprinter Shisospicy.
Although trade remained behind the giddy highs of last year, the April 15 second session of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale did at least prove more solid than the first.
Frosted, best known for a record-breaking performance in the 2016 Metropolitan Handicap (G1), was euthanized because of an acute episode of laminitis April 15 at Darley's Jonabell Farm.
Haulin Ice will make her next start on grass, pointing to the May 1 Unbridled Sidney Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs, which could be a potential turf showdown with reigning champion female sprinter Shisospicy.
Former stakes-winning jockey Nelson Arroyo's transition to pinhooking has been a major success, culminating in a standout performance April 15 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.