Page 20 - Spring Meet News Today

Lucrative purse money and Kentucky Derby qualifying points will be on the line during Turfway Park’s annual Winter/Spring Meet, which will begin Sunday, Jan. 1 and feature the Grade 3, $700,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks on Saturday, March 25.

Santa Anita Park has announced it will make special pre-sale ticketing opportunities available to fans who plan to attend the track’s Classic Meet opening day on Monday, Dec. 26 beginning next Tuesday, Nov. 29 for those that register at santaanita.com.

Ramon Vazquez won his first Santa Anita riding title and Peter Miller was leading trainer at the Arcadia, Calif., track's Autumn Meet.

Most trainers are poor handicappers, and I’m one of them, but when you train as long as I have you have to say, ‘OK, my horse is as good as I think I can make her and I wouldn’t change anything Saturday.’

Veteran jockey Julien Leparoux has been on a roll to start the September meet at Churchill Downs where he recorded four wins from nine starts over the first three days of the 14-day stand.

Keeneland announced today that its November Horses of Racing Age Sale will take place Thursday, Nov. 17, one day after the conclusion of the November Breeding Stock Sale.

Jockey Florent Geroux will make the journey West to Del Mar for the summer meet this year, agent Doug Bredar announced on Twitter Tuesday.

At just 27 years old, jockey Tyler Gaffalione has become a household name with racing fans across the U.S. and especially in Kentucky where he clinched the eighth Churchill Downs leading rider title of his young career at the 2022 Spring Meet.

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ homebred Gunite slipped through an opening along the inside rail at the top of the stretch and determinedly turned back late charges from My Prankster and Hoist the Gold to win Sunday’s first running of the $160,000 Maxfield Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs.

As the Churchill Downs Spring Meet enters its final three days, several jockeys and trainers are making their summer plans.