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Weekend Lineup: Derby Points On The Line In Holy Bull, Bob Lewis Sponsored by: Prime Factor won his career debut under wraps for trainer Todd Pletcher Throughout the year, the NTRA will provide a guide to the best stakes races in North America and beyond. Races are listed in chronological order (all times Eastern). Full previews when available can be found through the link for each race. A pair of Kentucky Derby qualifying races are on tap this weekend. The 1 1/16-miles, Grade 3 Holy ...

Sponsored by: Trainer Todd Pletcher sending Fighting Force to Sam Houston to contest the $200,000 Texas Turf Mile Sam Houston Race Park will host its annual Houston Racing Festival on Sunday, January 31. A special post time of 1:45 pm (CT) has been set for the marquee day of the Houston, Texas, tracks 2021 Thoroughbred meet with six featured stakes. Two graded stakes will be contested, the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic and the Grade 3, $200,000 John B. Connally Turf. Full...

Pletcher Runs 1-2 As Colonel Liam Bests Largent In Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Sponsored by: Colonel Liam holds off Largent to give Todd Pletcher a 1-2 finish in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Robert and Lawana Lows Colonel Liam, the least experienced contender in the richest grass race of the winter season, looked like a seasoned pro in his graded-stakes debut, powering through the stretch to edge Grade 2-winning stablemate Largent by a neck in Saturdays $1-million P...

Sponsored by: Hunka Burning Love wins the 2020 Jeffrey A. Hawk Memorial at Remington Among the best claims of the 2020 Oaklawn meeting occurred last April when owner/trainer Karl Broberg took Hunka Burning Love for $32,000 out of a seventh-place finish in a 1 1/8-mile event for older horses. Broberg didnt have to shake for the gelding, either. All Hunka Burning Love has done in 10 starts for Broberg is win eight races, including four stakes, by a combined margin of more than 43 length...

Sponsored by: Aquaphobia winning the Grade 1 United Nations under Joe Bravo for trainer Michael Maker The day after trainer Mike Maker won last years $1 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Turf (G1) with Zulu Alpha, the groundwork was laid for one of his 2021 runners – United Nations (G1) winner Aquaphobia. Zulu Alpha and Aquaphobia are among six former claiming horses that have gone on to win Grade 1 races for Maker. The trainer also is running the stakes-winning, Grade 1-placed...

Undefeated Life Is Good Made Early 6-1 Individual Favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Jan 19, 2021 Farm’s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade III) winner Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”) but the pari-mutuel field of “ All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday. While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Pool...

Life Is Good Tabbed Individual Favorite In Second Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool Sponsored by: CHC Inc and WinStar Farms undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday. While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Poo...

Black-Eyed Susan Winner Miss Marissa Among Seven In 150th Running Of Ladies Handicap At Aqueduct Sponsored by: Miss Marissa fends off Bonny South in the Black-Eyed Susan Miss Marissa found a comfort level going two turns in a stellar sophomore campaign and will look to follow a similar recipe in her 4-year-old bow as part of a seven-horse field of fillies and mares 4-years-old and up in the 150th running of Sundays $100,000 Ladies Handicap going nine furlongs at Aqueduct Racetrack in ...

It is no secret that Kentucky Derby favorites this time of year tend not to win on the big day. It does not bode well for Life Is Good that 40 of the last 41 top choices on New Year’s Day failed on the first Saturday in May — or September.     At this time last year, Authentic was 16-1 at William Hill Nevada. That was a big drop from the 65-1 at which he closed in the first pool of the Churchill Downs pari-mutuel Kentucky Derby Future Wager. A win in the Sham last January changed everythi...

Share Jeff Greenhill’s favorite venue: “It’s always fun to go to Keeneland, and compete there. I’ve won several down there.” Photo: Scott Serio/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders Cup Jeff Greenhill is not a trainer who spends his time grabbing headlines. He houses his string of 30 horses in the winter at Belterra Park in Ohio, Turfway Park in Kentucky, and Indiana Grand, and he has quietly been plying his trade for getting on for 25 years. He has trained over 600 winners and s...