Chad Brown sends out a strong hand of fillies and mares, led by grade 1 winners Gina Romantica and Surge Capacity, in search of his seventh Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) victory in the last 10 years.

When Wood Memorial (G2) winner Resilience was a foal, he carried himself in the way that elite racehorses do; with a self-assured manner that showed he knew what was expected of a horse with his pedigree.

Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look back at the results of the Grade 2 Wood Memorial & Grade 3 Gazelle Stakes.

Stellenbosch turned the tables on Japan’s reigning 2-year-old filly, Ascoli Piceno, in the first leg of the country’s filly Triple Crown, the Oka Sho (Japanese One Thousand Guineas-G1).

Fifty-two ready-to-run 2-year-olds are cataloged for the Chiba Thoroughbred Sale of 2-Year-Olds at Funabashi Racecourse May 10.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the photo examined by the Keeneland stewards in the April 7 opener was worth much more to Spendthrift Farm as their stallion Thousand Words achieved his first winner from his first starter.

On a brisk Sunday morning at Churchill Downs April 7, Louisiana Derby (G2) runner-up Honor Marie and fourth-place finisher Track Phantom returned to the work tab as they train towards the 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) May 4.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed against a former Kentucky trainer and Churchill Downs by a woman who was bitten by a horse on the Churchill Downs backstretch.

Favored Sierra Leone did not want to load into the starting gate for the April 6 Blue Grass Stakes (G1) at Keeneland. But once loaded, the talented colt had no reservations about racing, rallying from ninth to overhaul Just a Touch by 1 1/2 lengths.

Rick and Sharon Waller’s homebred Stronghold prevails by a head in a test of wills against even-money favorite Imagination in the April 6 $750,000 Santa Anita Derby (G1) at Santa Anita Park. He has 100 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby (G1).