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McCarthy, Centeno Avoid Serious Injury In Los Alamitos Spill Sponsored by: Jockey Trevor McCarthy Jockeys Trevor McCarthy and Alexis Centeno escaped injury after being involved in a scary incident in Sunday's fourth race at Los Alamitos in Cypress, Calif. Sherlock, Centeno's mount in the race for 2-year-old maidens bred or sired in California, broke fast from his outside post, but steadily veered in sharply and crashed into Creative Peak, who had broken from the inside under McCarthy. Both McCarthy, who had won the third race aboard Prince Magician, and Centeno were sent to nearby L...

Sponsored by: Last week's grading period came and went without a Report Card on the winners of the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes from Gulfstream Park, the G3 Southwest Stakes from Oaklawn and the listed John Battaglia Memorial Stakes from Turfway Park. The author got a little behind on his homework. We'll review those three races from Feb. 26-27 and three big 85 point Kentucky Derby preps that were run last Saturday: the G2 Gotham Stakes from Aqueduct, G2 Tampa Bay Derby from Tampa Bay Downs and G2 San Felipe Stakes from Santa Anita. The winners of those three races assured thems...

Photo: Liz Lamont / Eclipse Sportswire Following a weekend off, the 2021 Kentucky Derby Points Series resumed with a trio of races worth a total of 119 points to the top four finishers. Two of the three races paid out enough points for the winner to stamp an entry ticket to the Kentucky Derby, but the winner of the other one will have to keep pushing forward to earn his. Let's jump in and start analyzing the leaderboard by looking at who's in, out and who's on the 2021 Kentucky Derby points bubble after Saturday's Southwest Stakes and Fountain of Youth, along with the John Battaglia ...

Study Guide: 2021 John Battaglia Memorial Feb 23, 2021 J. Keeler Johnson The $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park has long served as a local steppingstone toward the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3), Turfway's signature race. But Friday's renewal of the John Battaglia is the most significant to date—for the first time, the 1 1/16-mile race serves as a Road to the Kentucky Derby prep event awarding qualification points to the top four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 basis. Gretzky the Great Wins: 3 Sire: Nyquist Jockey: Gerardo Corrales A son of 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, Gretzky the ...

Pedigree fun facts: Medina Spirit Feb 6, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com When Medina Spirit dug in gamely to withstand all comers in the Jan. 30 Robert B. Lewis (G3), he was expressing tenacity reminiscent of grandsire Giant’s Causeway – and a more distant ancestor, Wild Again. Medina Spirit’s pedigree isn’t fashionable up front, as implied by the bidding in both of his sales appearances. Sold for a paltry $1,000 as a yearling, he brought $35,000 as a two-year-old in training. That’s because his first-crop sire, Protonico, wasn’t very commercial. The four-time graded stakes ...