Lost Horizon

Three of this week's six fastest ran at Laurel on the Preakness weekend undercard. 6 - BENEDETTA, LRL, 5/16, Skipat Stakes R4, 6 furlongs (video) Beyer Speed Figure- 90 (2nd) (m, 5, by City of Light--Tessie Flip, by Grand Slam) O-Kaleem Shah Inc. B-Springhouse Farm & Dromoland Farm (Ky). T-Steve Asmussen. J-Jose Ortiz. Benedetta hasn't earned back her $750,000 2-year-old purchase price, but this runnerup finish puts her at $645,550. Her residual value is boosted by placings in the GIII Winning Colors and GIII Sorrento, but she has mostly been...

According to a report by David Grening in the Daily Racing Form, owner Peter Brant has taken away approximately 75 percent of his horses that had been trained by Chad Brown and moved them to new trainers. The Brant runners that have been moved will now be trained by Bill Mott, Riley Mott and Miguel Clement. It is not clear when Brant made the decision to take horses away from Brown. When contacted by text by the TDN Wednesday to address speculation that he was moving on to other trainers,...