Race of the Day:   Oaklawn

Moquett searching for gold at end of Rainbows

Trainer Ron Moquett is hoping to see a double rainbow Friday at Oaklawn Park.  He has runners in both the Rainbow, race 9, and Rainbow Miss, race 5, the six-furlong, $100,000 stakes for Arkansas-bred 3-year-olds.  Read more >>

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Gulfstream 

Co-featured sprints come up strong

Times are such that Gulfstream Park can fill the same optional-claiming-conditioned race at six and seven furlongs on one card and get solid fields for each one.  Read more >>
 

Tampa Bay 

Two locals cream of melting pot in Tampa finale

Veteran campaigners converge from all corners of North America for a $21,000 optional-claiming race that is slotted as the finale of Friday’s eight-race card at Tampa Bay Downs.  Read more >>

Race of the Day:  Oaklawn

Minnesota star Hot Shot Kid in deep for comeback

Hot Shot Kid is set to begin his 2020 campaign Friday at Oaklawn, when he returns from a layoff of more than six months in race 9, a deep optional claimer for older sprinters.  Read more >>

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Gulfstream 

Brisset running two promising fillies Friday

New Day Dawning returns to the turf while Slam Dunk makes her 3-year-old debut in a pair of first-level optional-claiming races that serve as the co-features on Friday at Gulfstream Park.  Read more >>

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Race of the Day:  Will Rogers Downs

Welder a free space in Will Rogers pick four

At Will Rogers, Welder captured the 2017, 2018, and 2019 renewals of the $55,000 Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma Sprint, and on Tuesday, Welder will be an odds-on favorite to make it four TRAO wins in a row.  Read more >>

DRF's Playbook for Sunday, May 3

Tampa Bay Downs

Tampa meet extension starts with pair of allowance races

Back-to-back $20,000 allowances (races 4 and 5) are co-features of an eight-race Wednesday card at Tampa Bay Downs that starts at 1 p.m. Eastern. Both are part of the pick six, a 20-cent jackpot wager that spans races 3-8 and offers a carryover of $52,536.

Hong Kong 

Dances With Dragon has fine chance to repeat

Dances With Dragon beat Enrichment by a head while giving him seven pounds in a Class 2 handicap over 1,800 meters on April 15 at Happy Valley and will try to handle him again giving even more weight over a shorter trip in the featured ninth race Wednesday at Happy Valley. Post time for Wednesday's card is 6:45 a.m. ET.

Derby Watch

Trainers biding time as waiting game drags on

A number of top 3-year-olds were in action last Saturday at Oaklawn Park in divisions of the Arkansas Derby, but many other elite Derby prospects – like Tiz the Law, Sole Volante, and Ete Indien – were cooling their heels, their trainers awaiting a clear path forward to the rescheduled Derby, now on Sept. 5.  Read more >>

Plus, see Who's Hot & Who's Not this week, and view the complete Derby Watch Top 20.

Race of the Day:   Gulfstream

Experience and youth matched in allowance Thursday

Bow Town Cat, 7, will make the 48th start of her career in race 10, while earlier on the card, in race 2, up to eight 2-year-old fillies will compete in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden race.  Read more >>

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Remington

Danjer looking to break out of bridesmaid role in 2020

Well regarded throughout his career, Danjer will start favored in his 2020 debut, an allowance race with a $75,000 claiming option at 330 yards on Thursday night at Remington Park.  Read more >>

Casse, Wise Dan top list of 2020 Racing Hall of Fame inductees

Trainer Mark Casse, whose major victories include Triple Crown races in both the United States and Canada as well as at the Breeders’ Cup and Royal Ascot, and Wise Dan, a two-time Horse of the Year and six-time Eclipse Award winner, were announced by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as this year’s inductees from the contemporary ballot. 

Australian Racing

Don't miss Wednesday's Australian racing, beginning at 9:55 p.m. ET with action from Wangaratta, Goulburn, and more.   

DRF's Horse Racing Playbook for Thursday, May 7

DRF's best bets for Thursday's racing at Gulfstream.  Read more >>

DRF's Horse Racing Playbook for Friday, May 8

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DRF's Horse Racing Playbook for Sunday, May 10, 2020

Gulfstream

Conditions give Fuel the Bern chance for upset in Sunday optional claimer

Sunday, Fuel the Bern is likely to encounter a wet track when he makes his first start off a 92-day layoff in Gulfstream Park’s featured second-level allowance/optional $50,000 claiming race at six furlongs. READ MORE.