BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI FARMINGTON, NM--MAY 16, 2024--Rene Salgado’s JLB Eye The Tiger drew post 2 for Saturday’s 350-yard, $120,000-added New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) for state-bred 2-year-old Quarter Horses at SunRay Park. The fastest qualifier, JLB Eye The Tiger made his debut with a wire-to-wire, half-length victory in the first of six trials on May 3. The gelded son of leading third year sire Eye Am King was a $7,500 yearling purchase at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs. JLB Eye The Tiger will be ridden by Christian Cardenas for trainer James J. Gonzales III. Other contenders include Pavel, a graded stakes winning son of Czar Cartel MV ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI FARMINGTON, NM–MAY 16, 2024–Razor Sharp and Famous Flyin Cowgirl are two of the dozen juveniles entered back in Saturday's 350-yard, $75,000-added Four Corners Futurity at SunRay Park. A $67,000 purchase at last year's Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City, Razor Sharp is a daughter of champion Tempting Dash trained by Eric Valenzuela for owner Ronald L. Sugamosto. The filly has won two of three starts and has earned $13,840, and her resume includes a third-place finish, a half of a length behind winner Love Ta Fly, in the April 6, $50,000 West Texas Juvenile Stakes at Sunland Park. Razor Sharp drew post 6 and will be ridden by Sergio Becerra ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI VINTON, LA–MAY 14, 2024–Fastest qualifier Hawkabye Baby drew the rail post for Saturday's 330-yard, $213,210 Old South Futurity for 2-year-olds at Delta Downs. A chestnut daughter of the One Dashing Eagle stallion Hawkeye, Hawkabye Baby made her career debut with a 1 1/2-length victory in the fourth of nine trials on April ...

AJAX, ONT–MAY 13, 2024–Two-time Horse of the Year HAD TO BE IVORY will make his 9-year-old debut in the 11th running of the Norman Picov Maturity at Ajax Downs on Wednesday, May 15, the second day of the 2024 season.

The eight-race card kicks off with the Battle Of The Breeds, a 770-yard dash around a turn, matching Thoroughbreds against Quarter Horses. Post-time for the Battle of the Breeds, the first race, is 1:30 p.m. The Maturity goes as race eight.

Nine top older horses will take on Had to Be Ivory in the 300-yard Maturity worth $ 30,000 added. The remarkable Ontario bred, owned and bred by Carol and Jaime Robertson, ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI VINTON, LA–MAY 13, 2024–B Second Cowboy, a gelded son of Flying Cowboy 123 and the fastest qualifier, heads a field of 10 sophomores entered back in Friday's 330-yard, $110,420 Old South Derby at Delta Downs. B Second Cowboy is coming off of a wire-to-wire, ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI SHELBYVILLE, IN–MAY 13, 2024–Red Headed Beach, a multiple stakes winning daughter of Escondido Beach racing for Pattie Marshall, will make her season debut in Thursday's 350-yard Harley Greene Derby (R) trials for state-bred 3-year-olds at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Red Headed Beach ended her juvenile campaign with a six-race win streak that included three stakes; the streak was capped off by a half-length victory in the October 28, $205,000 Miss Roxie Little Futurity (R). Raced exclusively in Indiana, the filly has won earned $365,779 from seven starts. Red Headed Beach drew post 6 and will be ridden by ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 10, 2024–Jaime Gomez will look to add to his record number of victories in the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity, while owner Randy Young will look to be in the Kindergarten winner’ circle for the fourth year in a row when a full field of 10 top juveniles will race in the first futurity of the meet at Los Alamitos Race Course on Sunday night.

Gomez has won a record eight runnings of the Kindergarten and the trainer ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI OKLAHOMA CITY, OK--MAY 9, 2024--Thirty-three 3-year-olds, led by graded stakes winners SC Time To Run and Dollar Bill, are entered in Saturday's Heritage Place Derby (G2) trials at Remington Park. The ten fastest qualifiers from the four 400-yard heats will meet in the June 1, $225,000-est. Heritage Place Derby final. A gelded son of world champion Apollitical Jess and champion Spit Curl Jess, SC Time To Run is trained by Jed Vane for owner Dunn Ranch. SC Time To Run is coming off of a neck victory in the March 24, $204,000 El Primero del Ano Derby (G2) for 3-year-old colts and geldings at Los Alamitos Racecourse. SC Time To Run was a $335,000 purchase at the 2022 ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 8, 2024–Bill Price’s BP Cartel Policy and Juniors Quarter Horse’s Ready For It, the top two finishers in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby, will face off once again, this time in the $35,000 Dillingham Handicap for 3-year-olds at 400 yards on Saturday at Los Alamitos.    

Nine races are scheduled for Saturday night with the Dillingham scheduled as the featured ninth race on the ...

HOUSTON, TX–MAY 7, 2024—Racing fans and longtime Texas Quarter Horse supporters are in for a treat on Friday, May 10 when Sam Houston Race Park will host five stakes. Post time for the ten-race card is 6:30 pm (Central) and will include the following featured events:

Friday, May 10 Race 6: 50,000 Leon Bard Memorial Stakes 3 YO 350 yards Race 7: $50,000 John Buchanan Memorial Stakes 3 YO Fillies 350 yards Race 8: $69,938 Adequan Derby 3 YO 400 yards Race 9: $75,000 Sam Houston Classic(G2) 3 YO ...

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–MAY 7, 2024–Graded stakes winners Heavens Uncle and Joose Boxx are two of the 193 2-year-olds entered in this week's $1,000,000-est. Heritage Place Futurity (G1) trials at Remington Park. A total of 24 350-yard heats will be run, 12 on Thursday and 12 on Friday. First post time both nights is set for 6 p.m. (CDT). A homebred son of freshman sire Uncle D racing for Sherry Gilmore, Heavens Uncle will be stretching out in distance off of his head victory in the 330-yard, $854,775 Remington Park Futurity (RG1) for Oklahoma-breds ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 3, 2024– Dunn Ranch’s Pattys Saint, a two-time Grade 1 stakes winner at Los Alamitos, will face the red-hot multiple stakes winner mare AJ Born Runnin and six other top mares in the running of the Grade 3, $60,000 Miss Princess Handicap at 350 yards on Sunday at Los Alamitos.

Pattys Saint loves running in stakes races at the Orange County oval. The 6-year-old mare won the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap in 2022 and then the Grade 1 Charger Bar Handicap earlier this year. She also ran second in the Grade 2 Las Damas Handicap while also racing in the prestigious Grade 1 Champion of Champions. ...