Porter on Pedigrees

For the first time in track history, Colonial Downs will host a Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifying race and the voice of the Kentucky Derby (G1), Travis Stone, will be calling the racing action.

2024 Cigar Mile Handicap (G2) winner Locked, trained by Todd Pletcher, comes into California race after running second to White Abarrio in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) in Florida.

The most recent shifts in Northern California horse racing have prompted The Big Fresno Fair board of directors and fair management to make the decision to postpone horse racing in 2025.

Patrice Jacobs Wolfson, who along with her husband Louis owned Harbor View Farm and raced 1978 Triple Crown winner Affirmed, died Feb. 25 at her home in Bal Harbour, Fla.

Panty Raid, a grade 1-winning racehorse and dam of graded stakes winners Proxy and Micheline, has been euthanized at age 21, per a social media post by her owner, Godolphin.

Group 1-winning juvenile Henry Longfellow will shuttle to Rosemont Stud in Victoria this year, where he will stand for an introductory fee of AU$22,000.

Group 1-winning juvenile Henry Longfellow will shuttle to Rosemont Stud in Victoria this year, where he will stand for an introductory fee of AUS$22,000.

Soul of an Angel clinched Eclipse champion female sprinter of 2024 with her impressive victory in Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) last fall at Del Mar. She is being offered as a racing/broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The Florida Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry provides one of the state’s most robust agribusinesses, with 33,500 jobs and $3.24 billion in annual economic impact.