Adele Dilschneider News Today

True Temper will be in search of his first stakes victory when he faces 10 rivals in Saturday’s $125,000 Holiday Cheer at Turfway Park.

Maker said Monday that he’s targeting the 1 1/2-mile FanDuel Kentucky Turf Cup for both Therapist and Red Knight.

Bob Baffert’s talented Midnight Memories, a winner of three out of her four starts, heads Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita, an important prep to the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland Nov. 5.

Flatter, a cornerstone of the Claiborne Farm stallion roster for nearly two decades, was euthanized May 9 due to the infirmities of old age. He was 23.

Sponsored by: Maxfield wins the Alysheba Stakes under Jose Ortiz Godolphins multiple graded stakes-winning homebred Maxfield leads a field of nine older horses that were entered in Saturday afternoons featured 40th running of the $600,000 Stephen Foster (Grade 2) – one of seven stakes events on the 12-race closing day program at Churchill Downs. Saturdays first race is 12:45 p.m. (all times Eastern) and the Stephen Foster will go as Race 11 with a post time of 5:59 p.m. The supporti...

Sponsored by: Super Stock and Ricardo Santana Jr. race past Caddo River and Concert Tour to win the Arkansas Derby Last years Grade 1 Breeders Futurity at Keeneland is looking more and more like a key race for the classics this year. The winner was last years champion juvenile colt, Essential Quality (by Tapit), who is still unbeaten and is the solid favorite for the Kentucky Derby next month. The second-place finisher in the Breeders Futurity was Keepmeinmind (Laoban), who won the G2...

Sponsored by: Soothsay and Flavien Prat (right) hold off Beautiful Gift in the Santa Anita Oaks Flavien Prat, Santa Anitas runaway leading rider, seized the initiative aboard lightly raced Soothsay three furlongs from home and went on to a stellar half-length score over heavily favored Beautiful Gift in Saturdays Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Richard Mandella, Soothsay, in her second career start, got a mile and one sixteenth in 1:44...

Beautiful Gift, Moraz Square Off Over Oaks Points At Santa Anita Sponsored by: Beautiful Gift winning the Santa Ysabel under John Velazquez Separated by a head when last they met on March 7, Bob Bafferts Beautiful Gift and Michael McCarthys Moraz will square off again as they head a field of five sophomore fillies in Saturdays Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks at a mile and one sixteenth. In addition to first prize of $240,000, the Santa Anita Oaks winner will receive 100 Kentucky Oa...

Sponsored by: Fair Maiden winning the La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26 A longshot winner of the opening day Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, trainer Eoin Hartys Fair Maiden will seek to validate that victory as she heads a solid field of 12 older fillies and mares going seven furlongs in Saturdays Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita. Dismissed at 20-1 in the Dec. 26 La Brea, Fair Maiden rallied for an emphatic 2 ¼ length win, as a pair of Bob Baffert fillies, Golden Principal and M...

Sponsored by: Drain the Clock draws clear in the Limehouse Stakes under Edgard Zayas Slam Dunk Racings Drain the Clock will make his graded-stakes debut in Saturdays $100,000 Claiborne Farm Swale (G3) at Gulfstream Park for connections who are hoping to keep things short and sweet. Although also nominated to the $200,000 Holy Bull (G3), the 1 1/16-mile Curlin Florida Derby prep that will headline a 12-race program with five graded stakes, Drain the Clock will seek to remain undefeated...