Adare Manor, winner of the Las Virgenes (G3) last year at 3, is the anticipated favorite for the April 29 $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park. 

Will bargain yearling buys become high-priced juveniles at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training? For pinhookers, answering that question depends on being able to see something in a young horse that someone else may not.

Adare Manor, winner of the Las Virgenes (G3) last year at 3, is the anticipated favorite for the April 29 $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park. 

Frank Sumpter’s Sunland Derby (G3) winner Wild On Ice will miss the Kentucky Derby (G1) after suffering a left hind leg injury that occurred following a workout just before 6 a.m. April 27 at Churchill Downs.

It is a plan that also envisions the future closing of Aqueduct Racetrack to consolidate Thoroughbred racing in the New York City area to a single track.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame class of 2023 includes Pink Lloyd, Formal Gold, Glenn Sikura, and Irwin Driedger.

The second session of the Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale went off April 26 at Ocala Breeders’ Sales, seeing steady trade for the four-day sale.

Topped by the $250,000 San Francisco Mile (G3T), Golden Gate will host six stakes races April 29 during the Northern California track’s Gold Rush Weekend. The San Francisco Mile drew horses from Southern California to compete.

Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Ky., will dedicate three new street signs on the farm during its 18th Annual Homecoming event, Sunday, May 7, 2023, noon to 4 p.m.

Racing at Laurel Park could resume as early as April 29, according to the chairman of the Maryland Racing Commission and the president of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association.