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Mo Stash earned his first graded stakes win in Friday's Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland, taking the field of 3-year-olds gate-to-wire

Heavily favored and unbeaten in all four of her starts, Bob Baffert’s Faiza heads a field of nine sophomore fillies going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks on Saturday.

Michael Dubb’s Bramble Bay has been named the 2022 New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year, champion turf runner, and champion older female by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of New Jersey. 

Two starts after being claimed by trainer Mike Maker for $50,000 on behalf of owner Michael Dubb, 8-year-old Therapist secured the first graded stakes victory of his long career Saturday in the $200,000 Pan American (G2) at Gulfstream Park.

Steeplechase racing resumes this weekend after a four-month winter break, beginning with a six-race card in Aiken on Saturday

Under a perfectly timed ride from Antonio Gallardo, Mission of Joy rallied resolutely from off the pace and dug in late to prevail in a duel to the finish line in the $200,000 Florida Oaks (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs.

Ivar, a winner at the highest levels in the U.S. and Argentina, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Haras Carampangue in Argentina, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.

Faiza makes it 4-for-4 in Santa Ysabel at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

An attentive second to a moderate early pace, Michael Lund Petersen’s Faiza took command turning for home en route to a facile 2¼ length win in the $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) Sunday at Santa Anita, giving Bob Baffert his record eighth victory in a traditional prep to the Kentucky Oaks (G1). 

Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Victory Formation at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.