Trainer Wesley Ward opts to run Ten Broeck Farm's Skara Brae in the $125,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Stakes May 9 against males rather than against females in the co-featured $125,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable's Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Golden Tempo will not run in the May 16 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Laurel Park and will instead await the June 6 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga, according to trainer Cherie DeVaux.
Tampa Bay Down's 100th anniversary season was an overall success with gains in handle and on-track attendance, as well as purses paid to the horsemen and horsewomen who supported the stakes and overnight programs throughout the 90-day meet.
In the third episode of Homegrown Heroes, Kevin Lay, stallion manager at Claiborne Farm shares with us some stories about growing up and working at Claiborne Farm.
Fresh off a Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs that featured three horses with international credentials, top-level stakes action shifts May 9 to Percy Warner, where the $250,000 Iroquois Stakes (NSA-1) also lured foreign runners.
Having been set to enter his 13th season at Eureka, Spirit Of Boom was found dead in his paddock the morning of May 6 from a suspected ruptured bowel. As a stallion, the son of Sequalo was crowned the champion Queensland sire four times.