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A million-dollar Arrogate filly topped the final session of the 2023 Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training held Tuesday evening in Timonium, Md., marking the eighth consecutive year that a seven-figure horse has been sold at this sale.

Plans are underway to make the Old Friends Purse an annual tradition at the Preakness Stakes.

Pedigree fun facts: 2023 Preakness Stakes 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.

“She’s very sensible and I don’t think traveling is really going to hinder her at all,” said assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes.

Michael Lund Petersen’s undefeated Faiza will try to extend her perfect record and win her fifth graded stakes in Friday’s $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and jockey Junior Alvarado continued their exceptional run of form together in graded stakes when Godolphin’s Kentucky homebred Caramel Swirl rallied to score an easy victory in Sunday’s $175,000 Vagrancy (G3), a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares, at Belmont Park.

The victory of Mage (by Good Magic) in the 149th Kentucky Derby was the culmination of visions and hopes, of plans and dreams. And as befits the success of a colt going off at 15-1, the triumph had something unexpected, almost magical, to it.

Pedigree fun facts: 2023 Kentucky Derby 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.

The number of sires eligible for consideration in the Power Rankings has grown from 39 after the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale to a whopping 90 after we passed the season's midway point. We finished with 94 last year, and I expect we'll blow that number out of the water by the time the last horse goes through the ring in 2023.

MARK BOYLAN: When the going gets tough, what sires, yards and jockeys get going? 2023-04-30