Horse Racing News

Apart ($4.40), the favorite, prevailed under jockey Garrett Gomez after a prolonged stretch battle, covering 1 1/16 miles on a fast, but dull, main track in 1:43.70. Icabad Crane was another 1 1/2 lengths back in third.

For Super Espresso, a $1.1 million auction purchase by owner Bobby Flay, it was her first graded stakes win.

No Explaining, a well-placed third in the early running, struck the front in upper stretch and went on to win the Grade 3, $100,000 Gallorette Handicap by about a length on Saturday at Pimlico.

Hyperbole surrounds the supposed difficulty Derby contenders face when wheeling back in the Preakness.

Royal Delta got a surprisingly lively pace to rally into and proved best in Friday's Grade 2, $250,000 Black Eyed Susan Stakes.

The Factor, impressive winner of the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn in March, is sidelined with a hairline fracture of a hind ankle, trainer Bob Baffert confirmed Friday.

Dianne Carpenter, the only woman to saddle two starters in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 68.

Toby's Corner, upset winner of the Wood Memorial who was forced to miss the Kentucky Derby due to lameness in his right hind leg, was to begin walking under tack on Thursday at trainer Graham Motion's barn at the Fair Hill Training Center.

The trainer of the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes on April 14 at Keeneland Racecourse has filed an appeal of a complaint that the second-place finisher should not have been allowed to start.

Graham Motion has had a few things to do this week. Making raceday accommodations for family and friends. Dodging the raindrops that keep falling at his Fair Hill training base.