The final pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager makes its three-day run April 3-5. Santa Anita Derby (G1) contender Journalism was tabbed as the 4-1 favorite among 39 individual horses, and another option is available for "All Other 3-Year-Olds."View the full article

Full Moon Madness, coming off a triumph in the Tom Fool Stakes (G3), vies to return to the Aqueduct Race Track winners' circle in the $300,000 Carter Stakes (G2) April 5. View the full article

Byron King's Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.View the full article

Republican Party can also fly the gate . If Duchess Megxit can't keep up then he could be in the trail and have a chance 

No – Horse – Trainer – Jockey – Barrier – Weight 1 – WILLYDOIT – Shaun Clotworthy – Michael Dee – 10 – 56.5kg 2 – GOLDRUSH GURU – Andrew Gluyas – Jamie Melham – 13 – 56.5kg 3 – THEDOCTOROFLOVE – Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young – Daniel Moor – 14 – 56.5kg 4 – SHANWAH – Ciaron Maher – Blake Shinn – 4 – 56.5kg 5 – PLYMOUTH – Glen Thompson – Mark Zahra – 3 – 56.5kg 6 – POCKETING – Richard and Will Freedman – Josh Parr – 16 – 56.5kg 7 – FIRM AGREEMENT – Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald – Tyler Schiller – 6 – 56.5kg 8 – KING OF THUNDER – John O'Shea & Tom Charlton – Zac Lloyd – 1 – 56.5kg 9 – GOLDEN CENTURY – Tony Pike – Nash Rawiller – 15 – 56.5kg 10 – IMPERIALIST – Chris Waller – Ryan Moore – 22 – 56.5kg 11 – MUSTANG MORGAN – Andrew Forsman – Craig Williams – 12 – 56.5kg 12 – RED ACES – Nick Ryan – Hugh Bowman – 18 – 56.5kg 13 – CONFETTI GARDEN – Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young – Tommy Berry – 21 – 56.5kg 14 – TSITSIPAS – Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young – TBA – 11 – 56.5kg 15 – AUTUMN AROHA – Richard Litt – Chad Schofield – 5 – 56.5kg 16 – BERNEN WIN – John Thompson – Tom Sherry – 20 – 56.5kg 17 – KOSUKE – Gregory McFarlane – Ashley Morgan – 9 – 56.5kg 18 – AELIANA – Chris Waller – Damian Lane – 2 – 54.5kg 19 (1st emg) – FLYING ARGENTO – Gary Portelli – Reece Jones – 23 – 56.5kg 20 (2nd emg) – DEAL N' DASH – Bjorn Baker – Zac Purton – 8 – 56.5kg 21 (3rd emg) – FORMAT – Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – Tim Clark – 7 – 56.5kg 22 (4th emg) – SO YOU ARE – Stirling Osland – TBA – 19 – 56.5kg 23 (5th emg) – BLACK BABYLON – Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald – Ethan Brown – 17 – 56.5kg  

No – Horse – Trainer – Jockey – Barrier – Weight 1 – ANOTHER WIL – Ciaron Maher – Jamie Melham – 18 – 56.5kg 2 – GRINGOTTS – Ciaron Maher – Tommy Berry – 6 – 55.5kg 3 – TOM KITTEN – James Cummings – Ben Melham – 1 – 55.5kg 4 – GEOGLYPH – Tetsuya Kimura – Damian Lane – 24 – 55kg 5 – PERICLES – James Cummings – Blake Shinn – 16 – 55kg 6 – MILITARIZE – Chris Waller – Chad Schofield – 7 – 55kg 7 – ROYAL PATRONAGE – Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – Tim Clark – 19 – 54.5kg 8 – STEFI MAGNETICA – Bjorn Baker – Jason Collett – 5 – 54.5kg 9 – ANISETTE – Chris Waller – Michael Dee – 20 – 54kg 10 – MOIRA – Chris Waller – Zac Purton – 21 – 54kg 11 – JUST FOLK – Gavin Bedggood – TBA – 10 – 54kg 12 – CELESTIAL LEGEND – Les Bridge – Regan Bayliss – 1 – 54kg 13 – KOVALICA – Chris Waller – Kerrin McEvoy – 17 – 53.5kg 14 – PORT LOCKROY – Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald – Craig Williams – 13 – 53.5kgk 15 – AL MUBHIR – William Haggas – Andrea Atzeni – 4 – 53kg 16 – NEW ENERGY – Ciaron Maher – Dylan Gibbons – 22 – 52.5kg 17 – IOWNA MERC – Bjorn Baker – Ashley Morgan – 15 – 52kg 18 – ENCAP – Gary Portelli – Reece Jones – 3 – 51kg 19 – FIRESTORM – Chris Waller – Jay Ford – 8 – 50g 20 – LINEBACKER – John O'Shea & Tom Charlton – Zac Lloyd – 14 – 49kg 21 (1st emg) – RISE AT DAWN – Ben, Will & JD Hayes – Karis Teetan – 2 – 51kg 22 (2nd emg) – SWIFTFALCON – Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes – Tyler Schiller – 12 – 49kg 23 (3rd emg) – SANDPAPER – Bjorn Baker – TBA – 23 – 50kg 24 (4th emg) – DUCASSE – Michael Freedman – TBA – 9 – 50kg ■ ■ ■ ■ ■  

Blair Orange without a drive in the big two. Don't Stop Dreaming and Muscle Mountain should both be driven by him. Yes I am not paying the bills but professionalism surely should be part of equation  Bet on Red - oh no starters - Rakero Rocket or Republican Party both wear Red hehe 

And maybe why he was so congratulatory of Trentham But yes, well done Ted. She certainly looks promising.

Now I know why you were at Trentham and walked the track 🙂 Congratulations Ted.

Calumet has the distinction of being represented by a couple of horses at the April 5 Dubai World Cup meeting; one a product of their breeding operation and the other who will carry the farm's black colors and gold chevrons in the main event.View the full article

For America's Best Racing, Tom Pedulla is interviewing prominent owners, trainers, and jockeys as they travel the Road to the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) May 3 at Churchill Downs.View the full article

It was an earlier-than-usual morning for trainer Mark Casse's team April 1 as they welcomed Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Sandman to Churchill Downs just after 4 a.m. ET to begin his preparations for the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1).View the full article

My Kempton trip this afternoon was aborted due to a fire by the railway track which halted all the trains so back to Stodge Towers I have come with the hope history won't repeat for my visit to Plumpton on Thursday. We have the final declarations through for the first day of the Grand National Festival meeting - the ground is Good to Soft, Good in places (watering to maintain). Four championship races on the opening afternoon starting with the Manifesto Novices Chase over 4000m (Cheltenham may have dropped its intermediate novice chase championship race but Aintree hasn't and has races at 3200m, 4000m and 4800m for the novice chasers which smacks of overkill in my view). Nine got to post headed by Arkle winner JANGO BAIE who needed every inch of the 3200m and a murderous early gallop to prevail. The step up in trip looks ideal but round this sharp left handed track I think they could still go strongly enough for him. IMPAIRE ET PASSE was kept over hurdles last year and beat the 2025 Stayers Hurdle winner BOB OLINGER in the 4000m Aintree Hurdle before following up over 4200m on good ground at Sandown. He won his first two chases this campaign before being well held by BALLYBURN at Leopardstown over Christmas. That was disappointing and while you think the trip and ground might work well he needs to be at his very best to beat JANGO BAIE. CROKE PARK won the Drinmore at Fairyhouse and the Long Distance Novice at Leopardstown over Christmas but he was beaten by BALLYBURN at the Dublin Racing Festival though finished five lengths in front of IMPAIRE ET PASSE. Will the trip be a touch short for him as well? I think he's a better bet at 7/2 then IMPAIRE ET PASSE at 11/4.  The one I like against the fancied horses is RUBAUD - we know he loves decent ground and if this were Kempton, he'd be a much shorter price. I thought he ran really well in the Kingmaker at Warwick (not unlike Aintree in some respects) behind L'EAU DU SUD and he showed he gets 4000m when winning the Pendil at Kempton last time. I think 12s is a knocking each way bet as long as eight or more stand. Thirteen go in the Boodles 4-y-o Hurdle over 3200m and I'll be honest - this looks a poor renewal. The Triumph form is hardly represented and instead we have the principals from the Juvenile Handicapo Hurdle at Cheltenham (known as the Fred Winter after the legendary jockey and trainer of yesteryear). The winner, PUTYOURHANDSTOGETHER (yes, I know) is 5/2 favourite to follow up here. The Skeltons have LIVE CONTI who came from France to win a small race at Wetherby - I'm tempted to say if he were with a lesser known trainer he'd be much bigger odds. On the bare form, he has a lot to find but he's a "could be anything" type. NATURALLY NIMBLE hasn't run since being well held by HELLO NEIGHBOUR in the Grade 2 juvenile event at Leopardstown over Christmas.  The one horse who ran in the Triumph (but didn't finish) was GIBBS ISLAND. I think he has a big chance if he can settle. Last July, he was a close fourth to PUTYOURHANDSTOGETHER in a 2000m handicap at The Curragh - he was beaten two and a half lengths that day but is 5 lbs better off yet he's 20/1 and the other horse is 5/2. I think he has a big chance if he can be ridden properly and they've put a hood on to help for the first time. The Golden Miller Bowl over 5000m is, I suppose, Aintree's version of the Gold Cup but it's a consolation prize at best though it's a trappy heat with the eight runners all rated between 157 and 166 (GALOPIN DES CHAMPS and INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN are both rated 175). THE REAL WHACKER was beaten nearly 40 lengths in the Gold Cup while top rated DJELO was beaten 65 lengths in the Ryaniar so we aren't dealing with Grade 1 runners in all honesty. The one I like is GAELIC WARRIOR who won at 4800m over hurdles at Punchestown in 2023 and on his chasing debut beat a certain INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN fifteen lengths (and that reads well now). It hasn't always gone well for this horse since and they've run him over 3200m this season which to me makes no sense. This trip will be ideal, the ground looks all right but he's drifted from 4s to 7s so is becoming an each way bet. I imagine that's because Paul Townend has opted for EMBASSY GARDENS and you'd have to think they believe better ground will help this one.  GREY DAWNING is favourite and arguably best of the home team - he beat IROKO (a big Grand National fancy) at Kelso but he was very poor on decent ground in the King George and this will be more like a King George than a Gold Cup and I don't fancy him on this track and on this ground. SPILLANE'S TOWER was fifth in the King George but all his best form is on much slower ground. One who might run well at the trip is STAGE STAR but he's getting on in years and it may just be at 4000m they go too quick for him. The feature of the first afternoon is the Aintree Hurdle over 4000m and the long anticipated match between the former Champion Hurdle winner CONSTITUTION HILL and the Mares Hurdle winner LOSSIEMOUTH. The former had, in my view, been threatening to do what he finally did in this year's Champion and take off too soon at a hurdle, step and fall. He's been well schooled since and I expect a better round of hurdling. The ground is likely to be quicker than when all out to beat SHARJAH in this race last year and the question really is whether Nico de Boinville is going to sit behind Paul Townend on LOSSIEMOUTH and pounce approaching the last. When they met at Kempton on good ground at Christmas, LOSSIEMOUTH was always struggling to keep tabs on CONSTITUTION HILL and in the end went down by two and a half lengths. That was his trip - Thursday will be her trip and there are good reasons for thinking she can reverse the form. She looked very good in the Mares Hurdle at Cheltenham but this is very different and I think CONSTITUTION HILL will prevail and I hope it's a race to savour. It takes two to tango (I'm told) and three is a crowd but the mare WODHOOH, although rated 23 lbs behind CONSTITUTION HILL, isn't a forlorn hope. She bolted up in the handicap hurdle for the conditional jockeys (apprentices) at Cheltenham and is clearly on the upgrade. She shouldn't and probably won't live with the front two this time but next season could be very different. 20 go in the Grade 2 Mares Bumper over 3400m and this is as tricky as it gets with a whole lot of unexposed types. JACKIE HOBBS would be my tentative selection but I'm not playing. Selections - Day One Manifesto Novices Chase: RUBAUD (each way) Boodles 4-y-o Hurdle: GIBBS ISLAND (each way) Golden Miller Bowl: GAELIC WARRIOR Aintree Hurdle: CONSTITUTION HILL Mares Bumper: JACKIE HOBBS  

While none of the eight 3-year-old fillies entered in the Gazelle Stakes (G3) are among the top 14 in the battle for spots in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), that will all change once the field crosses the finish line in the April 5 test at Aqueduct. View the full article

Following their impressive grade 1 wins, Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Sandman and Florida Derby (G1) winner Tappan Street join the top 4 in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top 3-Year-Old Poll.View the full article

I'm not surprised LUXEMBOURG is seen as a National Hunt or at best a dual purpose stallion. As you say, he had form up to 2400m though 2000m probably his optimum and they could breed him to a staying mare perhaps. He's standing for only 7,000 euros (NZD 13,300) at The Beeches in Lismore.  I agree he could be interesting as a shuttle stallion but the Coolmore jumping stallions have struggled a little. The exception is the 2005 Derby runner up WALK IN THE PARK who has been a huge success. He has sired such champions as DOUVAN, MIN, JONBON and this year's Gold Cup winner INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN and basically is the Frankel of the NH stallion market currently. The thing is, WALK IN THE PARK is 23 years old and I wonder if they see LUXEMBOURG as a potential successor.

Well done Ted! A very talented filly.

Yep just arrived home Chris all well On again next year, for Flemington Good recovery from Saturday but you only missed by half  neck for 7k on Saturday so you are well up after today, superb punting Chris

Dollars and Sense with Frank AngstView the full article

I see "l AM MAXIMUS" is the third favourite for the Grand National at Aintree on Sunday morning. $6.50 chance. You'll be on?