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The first of seven days of under tack previews got underway at the OBS Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training April 16, with a Mendelssohn filly breezing the fastest eighth-mile of the day in :09 3/5.
Larry Rivelli said the aim was to emulate what Two Phil's did in the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3). With the Derby less than three weeks away, the conditioner said his trainee is "at the peak of his game right now."
John Ropes' Dorth Vader produced a 'bullet' five-furlong workout the morning of April 16 at Gulfstream Park in preparation for a planned start in the May 5 Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs.
Gaslight Dancer certainly made the 12-horse field for the $250,000 Palisades Stakes question their power as he twirled victoriously down the Keeneland turf course April 16.
Being "a horse for the course" never hurts when your trainer makes a last-minute race decision. That's exactly what happened when Brad Cox opted to send the brilliantly fast Key of Life up against her stiffest test yet in the…
Henderson, Ky., native Nathan Hayden earned his first stakes win as an owner and breeder when his Cross Traffic gelding won the Commonwealth Stakes (G3) April 8 at the picturesque Lexington oval.