HOUSTON, TX–MAY 13, 2025–Quarter Horse racing fans are in for a treat on Saturday, May 17 at Sam Houston Race Park, with live Quarter Horse action and the simulcast of the Preakness Stakes.

The gates will open at 8:30 am (Central); the first race from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland runs at 10: 30 am and Sam Houston Race Park’s ten Quarter Horse race program kicks off at 1:00 pm.

Fans will be able to watch and wager on the entire card from Pimlico Race Course, culminating with the running of the second jewel ...

AJAX DOWNS–MAY 13, 2025–Brian Bell, 2024's High Point Jockey at Ajax Downs, begins his 25th year in the saddle on Wednesday, May 14, the second day of the Quarter Horse meeting. Bell, who has won more than half a dozen riding championships, is nine wins away from 800 victories, more than any other Quarter Horse jockey in Canada.

Bell will ride all six races on Wednesday, including the incomparable Maryland Magic, the 11-year-old stallion who easily won for owner Milena Kwiecien. Bell, who lives in Lindsay, had to sit out opening day due to a minor riding infraction from last season.

Maryland Magic, trained by perennial leading conditioner Jason Pascoe, will be odds-on in a 250-yard speed index dash in race four. The 20-time winner has five rivals including Tina Bogar's promising gelding The Gingerbread Mann.

Wednesday's first race, set for 1:45 p.m., is an Ontario-sired allowance ...

Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com   VINTON, LA—MAY 12, 2025—Fastest qualifier Jess Telling Beau clocked the quickest time from 110 trial races contested April 28, for Saturday's $194,020 Old South Futurity goiong 330 yards at Delta Downs.

Jess Telling Beau entered the trials after a third-place finish in her maiden start, which helped her find her best stride late ...

By Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

VINTON, LA—MAY 12, 2025—The ten fastest qualifiers to the Old South Derby will run the 330–yard distance for a grand prize of a $110,800 purse on Friday, May 16. These top ten finalists come from four heats on April 25.

Fastest qualifier Rios Dashing Spirit won her heat by a length. Rios Dashing Spirit is a filly sired by Apollitical Spirit for owners BM AQ Racing, LLC. The filly qualified in 2024 for the TQHA Sires Cup Futurity [G2] and has ...

Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—MAY 10, 2025—This coming Sunday, May 11, sixty-three fillies will participate in the Heritage Place Oaks [G2] trials at Remington Park. They will compete in seven heats, each covering a 400-yard distance.

Apollitical Muse, a filly by Apollitical Jess, is slated to run in the fourth race of the first heat. Fresh off a victory in the Remington Park Oaks on April 19, the $55,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale graduate is owned by Gregory Cullum. Trained by Jed Van, Apollitical Muse will be ridden by Juan Pulido, starting from ...

by Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—MAY 10, 2025—Thirty-four horses will participate in the Grade 2 Heritage Place Derby trials on Saturday night at Remington Park. Four trials will be held to determine the top ten fastest competitors advancing to the $244,000 finals on May 31, 2025.

The second trial of the evening appears to be the fastest qualifying trial. Defending his title is Kempton, the winner of last year's 2024 [G1] Heritage Place Futurity and the [G2] Evangeline Downs Futurity. He has made seven lifetime starts and has never finished outside of the top three, earning a total of ...

by Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

VINTON, LA—MAY 10, 2025—A field of nine fillies and mares are entered in the 350-yard $25,000 Mother's Day Stakes scheduled for Saturday evening at Delta Downs.

Patty Wagon Train, a veteran mare sired by Bp Wagon Train, is the morning line favorite following a strong performance, which includes a recent win in the Billy Montgomery Stakes.

Patty Wagon Train is racing for owner John T. Sargent, conditioned by Orlando Orozco and ridden by Ubaldo Luna from post eight. The ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 8, 2025–Train B Taka, who has been the most consistent sophomore male at Los Alamitos this season, will look to secure his second stakes victory of the meet when he takes on a full field of quality sprinters in the $30,000 Dillingham Stakes on Saturday night.

Owned by Cheryl Stokes, Armando Arreola, and Tungsten Racing Partnership, Train B Taka began the meet with a victory in the Holiday Handicap on December 28, his final start as a 2-year-old. That was his second win in as many starts at Los Alamitos, setting him up perfectly for a strong 3-year-old campaign.

Train B Taka’s first start of the year saw ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 7, 2025–Owned Santos Montemayor, Paul Penuelas and Valentin Zamudio, fastest qualifier Beyond Repair will lead a foursome of undefeated 2-year-olds in the meet's first futurity of the year, the Grade 2 $275,000 Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity, to be held on Sunday night at Los Alamitos.

Beyond Repair, a graduate of the Los Alamitos Equine Sale, is off to a terrific start to her career with ...

By Leann Noguera, StallioneSearch.com

MEXICO CITY, MEX–MAY 7, 2025–Two stakes races are scheduled for Sunday, May 11 at the Hipodromo de las Americas in Mexico City. The $17,600 Revelacion Classic will be race eight on the card, and the $53,700 Derby Garanones will close out the evening with race ten.

The first stakes of the night, the 35th annual Revelacion Classic, features seven three-year-old and older horses imported from the United States who have never won an added-money race.

The morning-line favorite Rg Lethal ...

by Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—MAY 8, 2025—Two hundred and forty-one horses will participate in the Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity trials on Thursday and Friday night at Remington Park. Thirteen trials will be held each night to determine the top five fastest competitors advancing to the $1,161,010 finals on May 31, 2025.

Night One features 121 juveniles competing, including the filly Flying Joy 1, trained by Trey Wood and ridden by her regular jockey, Ricky Ramirez. She aims to achieve her third ...

by Louanne Wainscott, StallioneSearch.com

FARMINGTON, NM—MAY 6, 2025—Ten New Mexico-breds are set to compete on Friday in the Jimmy Drake Stakes [RG3] at SunRay Park, with the morning line favorite, My First Luv, showing early odds of 3-1.

My First Luv recently secured a significant victory in the New Mexico Breeders Stakes [G3] on April 18 and a second-place finish in the Sunburst Stakes [G3] on March 2. She has had an impressive racing career, with three wins from eleven starts and earnings of $142,220.

Owned and ...