#Happy Soul

Keeneland's 15-day Spring Meet begins on Friday, offering a loaded weekend featuring 10 stakes worth $4.55 million. But this being Keeneland in the spring, many eyes are focused on just one stable. That would be Wesley Ward's, he of the three consecutive Keeneland Spring Meet training titles. Ward comes into the 2022 meet loaded as ever in his…

May 20 (UPI) -- The Preakness, even without Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike, is the marquee event in weekend horse racing, but by no means the only top-shelf event on the schedule. Pimlico Race Course provides an impressive supporting program on Friday and Saturday. Churchill Downs and Monmouth Park add to the mix. On the international front,…

A well-matched field of seven sophomore fillies will go postward in Saturday's $150000 Victory Ride S. (G3) at Belmont Park. The 6 1/2-furlong dirt dash features five horses who have achieved stakes success in the past, as well as an unbeaten contender, in what appears to be a very good betting affair. The Tom Albertrani-trained #7 Sterling…

Nest takes a shot against males in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday for trainer Todd Pletcher, a man who has won this race with the filly Rags to Riches in 2007. Even though Nest belongs in the Belmont, choosing the filly requires faith that the 1 1/2 miles elevates her to a new level. On previous form alone in normal route races, Nest…

One year ago, trainer Todd Pletcher's filly Malathaat started her 3-year-old campaign with a late rally to win Ashland Stakes by a head. The victory launched her to an Eclipse Award-winning season that also included Grade 1 wins in the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes. Pletcher will hope for similar things Friday and beyond with Nest (2-1),…

Former claimer Lady Scarlet recorded a career-high victory Friday when coming from off the pace to take the GIII Miss Preakness S. at Pimlico. Allowed to survey the pace in third early as 4-5 favorite Happy Soul, prompted by Gimmick, led the way through opening fractions of:23.01 and:45.58, the dark bay was given the cue by Irad Ortiz, Jr. while…

Brad King, Suzanne Kirby and Barbara Coleman's Slammed posted her first graded stakes victory in dominating fashion by romping to a 6½-length victory in the 42nd running of the $350000 Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) for fillies and mares. Trained by Todd Fincher and ridden by Florent Geroux, Slammed covered the 6 furlongs on a fast main track in…

Slammed took her New Mexico speed to the bluegrass Saturday, running off with the GII Thoroughbred Club of America S., a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint. Having racked up a six-for-eight record last term with romping stakes wins at Ruidoso, Albuquerque and Zia Park, the bay added a Sunland Park stakes victory in…

We know everyone (at least it seems like everyone, or at least everyone in our world) is immersed in the football season with wall-to-wall college football on Saturday, but Team Tuley is still looking for value at tracks from coast to coast. Last Saturday, our friend Duane Colucci, race and sports book manager at the Rampart, took the day off and…

Friday's Race Recap from Belmont at Aqueduct: (All odds US) Replays for yesterday's races from Belmont at Aqueduct can be found here: Belmont at Aqueduct: Race 5: 3rd@ 1.40/1 Aqueduct was playing EXTREMELY favorable to inside speed runners today. The first four races really demonstrated that so it didn't help that Dylan Davis took Central…

Kentucky Downs brought back the three turf stakes from Sunday's washed-out program on Tuesday. A multiple stakes winner last year, Adventuring has come back strong at age four, authoritatively leading wire-to-wire in the $550000 Ladies Marathon (G3). It was her second stakes win from as many starts this season. Brad Cox trains the Godolphin…

Modern Games, shown winning the 2021 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, returns to North America for Saturday's Grade I Ricoh Woodbine Mile. Photo by Alex Evers, EclipseSportswire, courtesy of Breeders' Cup Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Racing moves back to Churchill Downs and Aqueduct this weekend, but the main focus is north of the border, where Woodbine stages an…