By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott BOSSIER CITY, LA–MARCH 4, 2026–On Saturday, March 7th, Louisiana Downs will host seventy-two Louisiana-bred juveniles competing across nine trial heats for the Mardi Gras Futurity (RG2) Trials. Each hopeful will be chasing a spot among the ten fastest qualifiers set to return on March 28th for the $100,000-added Mardi Gras Futurity (RG2) Finals.

Headlining the contenders is Mc Blue Cartel, listed at 6-1 on the morning line in the eighth race. The filly ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott BOSSIER CITY, LA–MARCH 3, 2026–On Friday afternoon at Louisiana Downs, ninety-two juveniles will compete across ten trial heats for the Grade 3 Louisiana Downs Futurity Trials, contested at 300 yards with first post set for approximately 12:10 p.m. The trials promise a competitive afternoon as young prospects make their debut starts, all aiming to earn a coveted spot in the March 28 finale.

Among the ten heats, the ninth trial shapes up as the most ...

By Eric Alwan

SUNLAND PARK, NM–MARCH 2, 2026–An impressive group of older quarter horses are scheduled to compete in a pair of trial races Saturday at Sunland Park in preparation for the $65,000-added West Texas Maturity to be held Saturday, March 28.

As part of Saturday's 10-race program, the fourth and fifth races will feature some of the top region's top shortliners racing the distance of 400 yards. The 10 fastest qualifiers from the two trial heats will be entered back for the finals.

Karmalites, trained by ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–MARCH 1, 2026—The 2026 American Paint Horse Association season kicks off at Remington Park on Thursday with an exciting ten-race card. The highlight of the evening will be six trial heats for the estimated $175,000 Grade 1 Oklahoma Paint and Appaloosa Futurity.

A total of fifty-eight juveniles will race down the Oklahoma City straightaway, each vying for a coveted spot in the finale scheduled for March ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott BOSSIER CITY, LA–MARCH 1, 2026—The Thursday afternoon card at Louisiana Downs will showcase two divisions of Louisiana-bred talent as sophomores line up in the Mardi Gras Derby and Mardi Gras Oaks trials. A combined fifty-three three-year-olds will compete for coveted spots in the March 27th finals, highlighting one of the most anticipated afternoons of the Louisiana-bred season.

The Mardi Gras Derby Trials, ...

By Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 26, 2026–The trials for the Oklahoma Futurity will dominate the second and third evenings of the upcoming Remington Park American Quarter Horse Season. A total of 18 trials were put together this ...

By Dale Day

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 25, 2026– The Opening Night racing program for the 2026 Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season was drawn today. A card of 10 races will greet fans and players as the new year of racing begins in Oklahoma City on Thursday, March 5. A total of 93 horses entered the 10-race card for an average field size of 9.3 per race. The first night of the season features six trials for the Grade 1 Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Futurity. The ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott MEXICO CITY, MEX–FEBRUARY 25, 2026—The 2026 racing season gains momentum at Hipódromo de las Américas as official two-year-old schooling races commence February 26 at 12:00 p.m., with additional sessions scheduled for March 5, 12, 19, and 26. All schooling races will begin at 12:00 p.m. at the Mexico City oval. Official times can be found HERE.

On Sunday, March 1, the spotlight turns to a nine-race program anchored by the $16,329 Inaugural Classic and four trial heats featuring 29 entrants seeking ...

By Eric Alwan

SUNLAND PARK, NM–FEBRUARY 23, 2026– London Bridge will chase his second career stakes victory Saturday as the 4-to-1 morning-line favorite in the $190,212 West Texas Derby at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino.

The 62nd edition of the Grade 3 ...

By Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 23, 2026– Several stakes winners and horses of note took to the racetrack this past weekend, working out to ready for the upcoming Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season that begins ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–FEBRUARY 19, 2026—After knocking on the door of a major victory for most of his young career, Valeriano Racing Stables’ Hell On Wheels V now takes center stage as the horse to beat in the $98,500 Los Alamitos Maiden Stakes this Sunday night.

The sophomore brown gelding by Apollitical Jess looks to be the favorite in the 350-yard dash of this eight-horse field. Fastest qualifier Terry Mesu and stakes-placed filly Sentella Olimpia did not ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott BOSSIER CITY, LA–FEBRUARY 19, 2026—The Tuesday afternoon program at Louisiana Downs features a compelling nine-race card highlighted by 95 maiden entrants chasing a berth in the estimated $125,000 Maiden Classic Finals. The 350-yard trials are open to three-year-olds and upward who were maidens as of December 1, 2025, with the ten fastest qualifiers earning a return trip for the March 21 championship.

The spotlight in the third trial heat shines squarely on Aj Cyclone, the 2-1 ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

CYPRESS, CA–FEBRUARY 18, 2026– The local distaff division will shine as bright as a gemstone as a star-studded cast heads the $35,000 Denim N Diamonds Handicap under the Saturday night lights at Los Alamitos Race Course. Contested at the 350-yard distance, this Grade 3 event features a deep field of 10 aged mares, ...

By Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 16, 2026–A total of 25 training races, spread over two days, will take place Wednesday, Feb. 18 and Thursday, Feb. 19. There are a total of 198 horses entered for schooling races this week as trainers get their first-time starters prepared to run their first official races of their careers.

24 races are dedicated to the two-year-olds of this season, twelve on each day with a total of 191 juveniles. Six ...

By StallioneSearch

SELMA, TX–FEBRUARY 13, 2026– Retama Park continues its schooling races on February 18 with 75 horses entered across 12 juvenile events. The non-pari-mutuel races will be contested at 250 yards and are designed to give 2-year-olds early racing experience ahead of the upcoming season.

Two six-figure sale ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

CYPRESS, CA–FEBRUARY 11, 2026– Quarter Horse racing is a game of inches and split-second decisions. As the gate opens this Saturday, February 14, for the Grade 1, $202,500 Los Alamitos Winter Derby, the field will be led by a colt that proved just how much ground can be made up in a matter of seconds: Doodah Cartel.

Owned by Thompson Racing, Inc., Alexis Andrade, and Paul Jones, Doodah Cartel enters the 400-yard final as the horse to beat following a remarkable trial performance in which he turned a rough start into a masterpiece. The early part of his trial saw him bumped twice and shuffled to the back of the pack, ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott SUNLAND PARK, NM–FEBRUARY 11, 2026—Sunland Park’s Presidents Day program on Monday, February 16, will kick off at 1:15 PM with an eight-race card highlighted by the $32,800 Allred Brothers Stakes. The feature event brings together ten of the highest-earning three-year-olds and older for a fast-paced 350-yard dash scheduled as the afternoon’s second race at approximately 1:40 PM.

Jes Relentless enters the ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott SUNLAND PARK, NM–FEBRUARY 11, 2026—The Valentine’s Day racing program at Sunland Park will feature a nine-race card highlighted by the $80,000 Pepsi-Cola Stakes, where a full field of ten New Mexico-bred runners aged four and up will dash 350 yards in a competitive late-afternoon showdown scheduled for approximately 3:32 PM.

Heading the field as the 3-1 morning-line favorite is the accomplished mare ...

By StallioneSearch

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 10, 2026– Alliekat Dynasty hit the track at Remington Park on Tuesday for the first time since running second in the Grade 1, $107,280 Junos Request Stakes here on May 31, the final night of the 2025 season.

The now-5-year-old American Quarter Horse mare, Alliekat Dynasty is a multiple stakes winner and has ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK– FEBRUARY 9, 2026–The first training races of the upcoming Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season will take place this week. There are 63 horses scheduled to run on Wednesday at 11 a.m. and 65 horses entered Thursday with the same starting time.

Nine races were drawn for each day and three-time defending champion trainer Dee Keener didn’t let the stall doors on his stable stay shut long, emptying the barn for these two days. Keener has entered 14 horses each day for a total of 28, prepping for the first ...

By StallioneSearch

BOSSIER CITY, LA–FEBRUARY 9, 2026– Originally scheduled for February 6, Louisiana Downs schooling races have been rescheduled for Friday, February 13 and Saturday, February 14, with first post set for 11:00 a.m. each day. The races will feature two-year-olds preparing for the Louisiana Downs Futurity and the Mardi Gras Futurity, offering an early look at the 2024 foal crop as the spring stakes schedule ...

By Eric Alwan

SUNLAND PARK, NN–FEBRUARY 2, 2026– A dozen of the nation's top older quarter horses will run in Saturday's (Feb. 7) 24th running of the $350,000 Grade 1 Championship at Sunland Park, one of three stakes races to be held on a very busy day of action. An early post of 12 noon is set for Saturday’s expanded ...

By StallioneSearch

SELMA, TX–JANUARY 31, 2026– Action for the 2026 2-year-old crop of American Quarter Horses will begin Wednesday, February 4, when Retama Park hosts 12 schooling races for juveniles.

The non-parimutuel races will be contested at 250 yards and are designed to provide young horses with experience as they prepare for their 2-year-old racing season.

Five six-figure sale graduates are entered to run Wednesday, ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

CYPRESS, CA–JANUARY 30, 2026–Graded futurity finalists Slatedtoshine and Sentella Olimpia, along with Los Alamitos Two Million Juvenile Invitational finalists Terry Mesu and Hell On Wheels V, are among the 34 sophomores competing in the trials for the $98,500 Los ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA–JANUARY 29, 2026– Two strong efforts in futurity trials last year establish Steve Burns’ In The Lead as a top contender in Saturday’s featured $12,900 allowance at Los Alamitos. The 350-yard dash is part of an eight-race card, with the ...

By Eric Alwan

SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 29, 2026–A dozen of the nation's top older quarter horses were entered for Saturday's 24th running of the $350,000 Grade 1 Championship at Sunland Park, one of three stakes races to be held on a very busy day of ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 27, 2026—The Saturday program at Sunland Park will feature a competitive nine-race card highlighted by three stakes races: the $60,000 Lonnie and Candy Elam Memorial Stakes, the Grade 1 $350,000 Championship At Sunland Park Stakes, and the GII $188,490 Shue Fly Finals.

The ninth race on the Saturday card at Sunland Park will showcase ten talented three-year-olds who qualified ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 26, 2026—The Saturday program at Sunland Park will feature a competitive nine-race card highlighted by three stakes races: the $60,000 Lonnie and Candy Elam Memorial Stakes, the Grade 1 $350,000 Championship At Sunland Park Stakes, and the Grade 2 $188,490 Shue Fly ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 22, 2026–Thirty-two sophomores have been divided into four trials at 400 yards to the Grade 1, $201,000 Los Alamitos Winter Derby on Saturday night at Los Alamitos. The trials will make up an all-Quarter Horse Late Pick Four and the quality of these standouts comes through as 20 of them ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–JANUARY 26, 2026—The Monday afternoon program at Turf Paradise features an eight-race card highlighted by the $27,800 Mark Villa Maiden Stakes, which will ...

By Eric Alwan

SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 12, 2026– David Meridyth's Flashtoglory will be seeking to defend her title in Saturday's 25th running of the $80,000 Lou Wooten and Sydney Valentini Stakes at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino.

The New Mexico-bred mare by ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 9, 2026– Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s homebred Rockin With Energy will look to defend her title in the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap when she headlines a ...

SUNLAND, NM–JANUARY 5, 2026–Wes Giles-trained Bigg Picture will be seeking his third straight stakes win when he arrives in the paddock as the 3-to-1 morning line favorite for Saturday's 28th running of the $80,000 Red Or Green Stakes, a restricted Grade 2 event for New Mexico-bred older quarter horses.

Bigg Picture, owned by Uno Menos and bred in New Mexico by Mj Farms, is coming off back-to-back stakes victories at Zia Park, most recently the Grade 1 Zia Park Championship, in which the son of Big Daddy Cartel beat open company.

Prior to that, Bigg Picture captured the Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Championship Stakes at Zia Park, one of his five wins from eight starts in an extraordinary 2025 campaign for the 5-year-old gelding. In all, Bigg Pictre has amassed earnings of more than $440,000 while winning six times from 21 ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 5, 2026—The Saturday card at Sunland Park will feature a ten-race program beginning at 12:25 PM, highlighted by five trial heats for the G2 $100,000-added Shue Fly Stakes and the G2 $80,000 Red or Green Stakes. A total of forty-four New Mexico-bred three-year-olds will compete in the Shue Fly Trials, all aiming to post one of the ten fastest times to earn ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 1, 2026–Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s homebred Rockin With Energy will look to defend her title in the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap when she headlines a field of 10 aged mars in the 400-yard race on Sunday at Los Alamitos.

Rockin With Energy won this race by the narrowest of margins last year, but she’ll enter the meet’s first Graded 1 final fresh off an impressive 3/4 length win in the Grade 2 Las Damas Handicap on November ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 1, 2026–The first full weekend of racing of the new meet at Los Alamitos is on tap with eight races each on Saturday and Sunday night.

The Sunday program will be headed by a pair of stakes races for mares led by the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap with a full field of 10. Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s Rockin With Energy will look to become only the fourth two-time winner of the James Dreyer Charger Bar, which is always the first Grade 1 race of the meet at Los Alamitos.

Ten mares will also be in action in Sunday’s Dashingly. Cruz Mendez, who will ride Silver Bac in the James Dreyer Charger Bar and Racy Favorite in the Dashingly, is just one Quarter Horse stakes win away from 100 in ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 31, 2025—The January 5th card at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race program highlighted by two trial heats for the $22,500 added Mark Villa Maiden Stakes, drawing a competitive group ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 27, 2025—The New Year’s Eve Wednesday program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card beginning at approximately 1:15 PM, highlighted by two key AQRA events: the $17,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Derby Consolation Stakes and the $68,875 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Quarter Horse Derby. Both races bring together qualifiers from the December 1 trial heats and showcase some of the track’s top three-year-old talent.

The afternoon ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 25, 2025—The Friday afternoon program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card highlighted by two major futurity events for Arizona-bred juveniles, the $17,800 AQRA Quarter Horse Futurity Consolation Stakes and the $62,350 AQRA Quarter Horse Futurity. The first post is scheduled for approximately 1:15 PM.

The opening race is the $17,800 ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 25, 2025—The Saturday card at Turf Paradise will be highlighted by the $34,800 Mike Hastings Memorial Stakes, ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 24, 2025–The final stakes for juveniles at Los Alamitos in 2025 lured a solid cast of nine 2-year-olds for $25,000 Holiday Handicap on the opening night of the meet here on Sunday evening. 

Kolleen Ledgerwood’s Fancy Upp heads the field after running in a pair of futurities this year. The Favorite Cartel filly finished third in the Restricted Grade 1 Governor’s Cup Futurity and also competed in the Grade 2 PCQHRA ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 21, 2025—The Monday afternoon program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card highlighted by two key juvenile events: the $22,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity Consolation Stakes and the $98,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity. First post is scheduled for 1:15 PM, with promising two-year-olds taking center stage over 400 yards.

The $22,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity Consolation Stakes will open the card as race one, bringing ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

MEXICO CITY, MEX–DECEMBER 20, 2025—On Sunday, December 21, Hipódromo de las Américas will present an eleven-race card featuring some of the top Quarter Horse talent in Mexico. The program includes four major stakes events: the $11,651 Mexican Breeders Juvenile, the $29,749 Champion of Champions Classic-G3, the $43,374 Championship Juvenile, and the $159,264 Mexican ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 18, 2025–Link Newcomb’s Cattail Cove will make his 60th career start when he defends his title in the Grade 3, $30,000 First Down Dash Handicap in Saturday’s eighth race at Los Alamitos. The 8-year-old star will also look for his fourth stakes victory of the year and the ninth of his brilliant career.

Cattail Cove won the 2024 First Down Dash by a neck before scoring stakes win in this year’s Moonist, Independence Day and Restricted Grade 1 Spencer Childers California ...

By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott

HOBBS, NM–DECEMBER 17, 2025—The Saturday card at Evangeline Downs will bring the meet to a thrilling conclusion with a twelve-race stakes-filled program offering more than $2 million in purses.

Highlighting the evening are the $1,000,000 LQHBA Louisiana Million Futurity and the $307,955 EVD Futurity, along with a deep supporting slate that includes the EVD 870 Stakes, EVD Juvenile Stakes, LQHBA Breeders Oaks, Leverne Perry Stakes, LQHBA Louisiana Million Invitational Stakes, EVD Derby, LQHBA Breeders Derby, Louisiana Champions Day ...

By Rob Tuel, Evangeline Downs

OPELOUSAS, LA–DECEMBER 16, 2025–The $1,000,000 LQHBA Louisiana Million (RG1) is the featured event on the Saturday night card at Evangeline Downs. The race over the distance of 400 yards is the main event on a card stacked with 12 stake races.

Rf Fast Dash N Blood has a chance to become racing’s newest millionaire with a win in the ...

By Orlando Gutierrez

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 13, 2025—La Feliz Montana Ranch and Ray Willis’ Political Twist will look to become the first juvenile to win California’s richest Quarter Horse, the Grade 1, $1,929,825 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, after having already won a Grade 1 futurity at Ruidoso Downs.

He will take on a stellar field that will also include two other major Grade 1 winners at Los Alamitos on Sunday night.  Political Twist, the 2-1 morning line favorite in the Two Million final, won the Grade 1 $1,000,000 Ruidoso Futurity at the New Mexico track and then ran a super second in the Grade 1 $3,000,000 All American Futurity on Labor Day Monday at The Downs at Albuquerque.

In his Los Alamitos debut, Political Twist had an ...

By George Duarte, Los Alamitos Night Lines Analyst

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 12, 2025–This year's edition of the Champion of Champions is headlined by the defending and two time champion Empressum, the latest runner who has bested him in Jeriko and an up and comer who beat both of them in Stanley Cartel. Others who merit consideration are the All American winner Fdd Dreams who has ...

By Orlando Gutierrez, Los Alamitos

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 11, 2025–The 53rd running of the Grade 1, $700,000 Champion of Champions at 440 yards will bring together the best lineup of Quarter Horses to face off in 2025. Ten Grade 1 winners will be in action with stats that exemplify their outstanding talents.

The field has combined to win 98 races from 220 starts with total earnings of $9,058,824. There are three millionaires in the field in Empressum, FDD Dreams and Jeriko and three others with over $600,000 each in ...