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Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies winner Liberty Rings (Awesome Slew) will skip Royal Ascot and instead point towards the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs June 28, her trainer Nick Palmer told Gulfstream media Wednesday. "I had a family member pass away in the interim and I didn't want to miss her service, and it takes a lot out of your horses to go over there. The purses aren't really anything spectacular," Palmer said. "Although, for me personally, for my career, it would have been awesome to go and to network and...

Billionaire attorney John Morgan met with the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association (FTBOA) leadership at their headquarters in Ocala on Thursday to outline his vision for the sustainable future of Florida Thoroughbred racing and breeding, the organization said in a Friday press release. Morgan has formed a Delaware corporation to advance the state's last remaining permit owned by Ocala Thoroughbred Racing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the FTBOA. The entity is working with third parties to identify business models that will anchor robust purses and awards in Marion County...

9th-GP, $68k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, post time: 5:04 p.m. ET STREET PLAY (Into Mischief), a $700,000 Keeneland September purchase, makes her first trip to the races for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm and trainer Kent Sweezey. A May 1 foal, the bay looks to become the second winner out of a daughter of Contrive (Storm Cat), whose daughter Folklore (Tiznow) was champion 2-year-old filly of 2005 when taking out the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies for Wayne Lukas and Bob and Beverly Lewis. Folklore's GSP half-sister Delightful Quality (Elusive...

Reef Runner (The Big Beast), winner of the G2 1351 Turf Sprint in February at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh and fourth in the Mar. 28 G1 Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan, is expected to make his stateside return in the June 6 GI Jaipur Stakes at Saratoga. The 5-year-old gelding had his first work since returning from the Middle East Saturday, going four furlongs in :46.90 (1/19) over the Tapeta at Gulfstream. "He looks fantastic," said trainer David Fawkes. "I nominated him for the Jaipur. We're coming. He traveled...

Liberty Rings (f, 2, Awesome Slew--America First, by Uncaptured), a rallying third in her debut going 4 1/2 furlongs at Gulfstream Apr. 19, made her first start on grass a winning one with a 7-1 upset in Saturday's Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies S. The 7-1 chance was hustled to the front, sped through an opening quarter in :21.78 and kept finding down the lane despite drifting some to punch her ticket to Royal Ascot. It was 1 1/4 lengths back to first-time starter Pros And Cons (Justify) in second. "She...

Celtic Dispute (f, 2, Leinster--Bert's Altarcation, by Bertrando), a debut second as the 4-5 chalk going 4 1/2 furlongs for trainer Patrick Biancone over the Gulfstream dirt Apr. 16, switched to grass and defeated the boys in Saturday's Royal Palm Juvenile S. at Gulfstream Park. The 5-2 chance flashed sharp speed from her inside draw, but was cleared by fellow filly and favored Skara Brae (Golden Pal), a sharp debut winner for Wesley Ward at Keeneland this spring, and backed off to second. Celtic Dispute set her sights on the...

Plaintiff Chrissy Laughlin, the founder of an equine welfare organization that protects the rights and well-being of racehorses in the Caribbean, has filed a motion asking Puerto Rico's horse racing administrative tribunal to reverse a ruling it made earlier this month that denied her organization access to evidence related to a complaint about the demise and euthanization of the racemare Kayseri in 2025 at Camarero Race Track. Laughlin, according to an Apr. 23  press release issued by Caribbean Equine Advocacy, is also seeking to stay an adjudicative hearing in the...

Jockey Leonel Reyes notched his 1000th victory in North America Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the 40-year-old native of Venezuela guided Papa Golf (Hard Spun) into the winner's circle following a textbook ride in the fifth race, according to a press release from 1/ST Racing on Saturday. Reyes, who ventured to Gulfstream Park in 2016 after winning two national riding championships in Venezuela, was just three wins away from the 1000-win milestone Nov. 2, when he was sidelined with an open fracture of his left ankle sustained in a racing...

10th-GP, $68k, Msw, 3yo, 1mT, 5:38p.m. ET Repole Stable and Stonestreet will unveil Gallant King (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) in this nightcap at Gulfstream Park for trainer Todd Pletcher. Purchased for 340,000gns as a yearling in 2024 from the Tattersalls October Yearling sale in England, the chestnut gelding is out of a half-sister to a French Listed winner who went on to become the dam and granddam of six black-type runners. Gallant King's mother, Aeronautical (Medaglia d'Oro), also claims Group 1-placed Holocene (Lemon Drop Kid) as a half-brother as...

1st-AQU, $80k, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 1:10p.m. ET Hailing from a branch of the female line which yielded 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' MGISW Carl Spackler (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), Okefenokee (Maxfield) will be unveiled in the Aqueduct opener for trainer Tom Morley. Sharing a name with an ecologically rich swampland that spans Georgia and Florida, as well as being a beloved stomping ground for a certain Adams family, the $375,000 Keeneland September purchase enters this debut with a healthy worktab over the training track at Belmont Park. In...

3rd-GP, $68k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:54 p.m. ET Godolphin homebred Delightfully (Tapit), a full-sister to two-time champion and promising young sire Essential Quality, kicks off her career for Brad Cox. She is the 8-5 morning-line favorite. Cox will also saddle second-time starter Nahla (Authentic), a half-sister to GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational S. winner Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator). The Shadwell Stable colorbearer and $550,000 KEESEP yearling finished second on debut going two turns at Tampa Feb. 28. TJCIS PPs 6th-KEE, $110k, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 3:40 p.m. ET The rail-drawn Mashallah...

GI Florida Derby runner-up The Puma (Essential Quality) put in his final local breeze at Gulfstream Park Saturday morning in advance of shipping out to Churchill Downs for an anticipated tilt in the GI Kentucky Derby. Working five furlongs with Javier Castellano aboard, the chestnut clicked off 1:00.77 (5/15) over a fast track in his second work since being defeated by Commandment (Into Mischief) in a desperate photo in the Florida Derby. Clockers caught his six-furlong gallop out in 1:12.85 and a mile in 1:37.88. "[The work] went really well....