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With the Angels, by Omaha Beach, was accorded a 6-1 chance on the morning line for her debut, but she was well-tried in the market and ultimately made even-money look like a gift in a debut romp that was worthy of the 'TDN Rising Star' designation. Having breezed an eighth of a mile in :9 4/5 before selling to agent Justin Casse for $350,000 at this year's OBS April Sale, the dark bay filly-who fetched $65,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-Bred Sale-worked equally well over a conventional dirt...

Honor Marie and Mo Plex are among a loaded group of Legion Bloodstock graduates running on Travers weekend in Saratoga. Kyle Zorn speaks to TDN about the early success of their full-service bloodstock agency.

At the start of this year's Saratoga meet, jockey Dylan Davis had a goal of beating the 19 wins he came home with last year. With two weeks still left to go before the NYRA circuit heads back downstate, Davis has already accomplished what he set out to do with 23 wins and his first Grade I win in the U.S.

Byron Lopez has dedicated his life to horse racing, having worked for trainer Todd Pletcher for the past 24 years. Lopez is the groom of Breeders' Cup Juvenile champion Fierceness, who is now pointing toward the GI Travers Stakes.

Thin White Duke is trained by former Woody Stephens assistant David Donk and owned by another former Stephens assistant in Phil Gleaves. This weekend, the 6-year-old gelding will take on the GII Troy Stakes.

Exercise rider Priscilla Schaefer is living the dream with Dornoch, winner of the 'Win And You're In' GI Haskell Stakes.

John Stewart is known as a free-spending racing owner, taking home top prospects from the horse sales he attends. But he is also proving to be a caring racehorse owner, also saving horses from neglect and slaughter. We talk to him at his Resolute Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and meet his two newest acquisitions.  

Visit turf specialist Didia as she prepares for the Diana | Didia scored her first American Grade I victory in the New York Stakes at Saratoga on Belmont weekend. The TDN visited with the star mare at Keeneland as she prepares for the upcoming GI Diana Stakes.

Honor Marie didn't get the trip trainer Whit Beckman was hoping for in the GI Kentucky Derby, but the colt's connections know their horse has been training better than ever after the Derby and they have high hopes going into the GI Belmont S.

Just five years after he set out on his own, Guillaume Vitse finds himself a Breeders' Cup-winning breeder. He tells his story in this video, presented by Three Chimneys.

Follow along with some of the contenders of the 2024 Kentucky Derby and Oaks as they prepare for the first weekend in May.

Brook Smith, the co-owner of Sierra Leone, hopes to get the word out on the Backside Learning Center as his colt Sierra Leone represents the program at the 2024 GI Kentucky Derby.