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“I think he’s a really special horse on any surface, but he does like Gulfstream, so it’s good to know that,” Pletcher said.

Forte has been preparing for a seasonal debut in the Fountain of Youth at Pletcher’s winter training base at Palm Beach Downs.

Both the Suncoast and the Sam F. Davis are part of a points system leading to Churchill Downs in Louisville the first weekend of May

Practical Move defeated three of trainer Bob Baffert's 2-year-olds in the Los Alamito Futurity to move into Kentucky Derby contention.

Making his first start for Michael Hui, Phil Forte and trainer Mike Maker, recent Keeneland November purchase Value Engineering returned fast dividends with a victory in the $100,000 H. Allen Jerkens at Gulfstream Park.

Nominations for Santa Anita’s prestigious Grade 1, $300,000 Runhappy Malibu Stakes and five other graded offerings closed Monday with a total of 104 horses nominated

Arindel’s Lynx is scheduled to put her undefeated record on the line in Saturday’s $400,000 My Dear Girl at Gulfstream Park while looking to pull off a sweep of the fillies division of the 2022 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes series.

Thus far in 2022, Maker ranks fifth in the country in purse earnings, behind only Chad Brown, Steven Asmussen, Todd Pletcher and Brad Cox, some of the biggest names in the sport.

The Grade 1 Diana and Grade 3 Sanford share the spotlight on the first weekend of the Saratoga race meet in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be held Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the pool is expected to approach $4 million or more.