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Rafael Hernandez, a former Canadian champion jockey, reached his 3,000th career win Friday when Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry's homebred Bill Needle scored in the fourth race at Woodbine.

Nine fillies and mares, including Queen’s Plate winner Moira, will vie for top prize in the Grade 1 $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes, up from $600,000 last year, part of a stellar stakes-filled Saturday card of racing at Woodbine.  

The finish of the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine Race Track produced one of those head-bobbing finishes where it seems a shame for either horse to be declared a runner-up but Fev Rover prevailed.

Lady Speightspeare, under Emma-Jayne Wilson, was full of run late in taking the $158,200 Trillium Stakes (G3) for fillies and mares Saturday at Woodbine.

For the fourth time in six years, Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen claimed the top prize of $50,000 in the Maryland Jockey Club’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 20-21, at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Expert handicapper Nick Tammaro has picks and analysis for the big races at Pimlico on Saturday May 21st culminating with 2022 Preakness Stakes.

This will be the fourth time the daughter of Canford Cliffs (IRE) has tried the Gallorette distance; she has a win, a second and a third.

He went on to win two more stakes races before capping off the 5-win day with the biggest prize of all, the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby.

Corelli Flies Late in Henry S. Clark; Xanthique, Completed Pass Victorious Sponsored by: Corelli (outside) nips favored Pixelate at the wire in the Henry S. Clark Stakes Augustin Stables Grade 1-placed Corelli, cutting back to the shortest distance of his North American career in his first race since mid-October, came flying down the center of the track to catch Grade 2-winning favorite Pixelate approaching the wire and get his nose down at the wire of Saturdays $100,000 Henry S. Clar...