Blood Horse Headlines
- Lovcen's stamina pedigree kicked in through the late going of the April 19 Satsuki Sho (Japanese Two Thousand Guineas, G1T) and the colt completed a gate-to-wire victory.
- Taj Mahal earned his way into the $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1), the second jewel of the Triple Crown, with a dominant performance April 18 in the $150,000 Federico Tesio Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles at Laurel Park.
- Almendares scores a neck over Genius Jimmy in the April 18 American Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.
- Burnham Square scores in the Elkhorn Stakes (G2T) April 18 at Keeneland. The 4-year-old son of Liam's Map, who was last year's winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (G1), is now a graded stakes winner on turf and dirt.
- White Abarrio upsets the reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty and 2025 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism in the April 18 Oaklawn Handicap (G2) at Oaklawn Park.
- Despite most of the attention on Sovereignty April 18, Bill Mott's barn fires in the $350,000 Ben Ali Stakes (G3) as Stars and Stripes and Batten Down complete the exacta at Keeneland.
- Three Chimneys Farm's Ottinho, runner-up to Further Ado in the Blue Grass Stakes (G1), will bypass the Kentucky Derby (G1) in favor of a start in either the Preakness Stakes (G1) or Peter Pan Stakes (G3), trainer Chad Brown said April 18.
- Florida Derby (G1) runner-up The Puma and Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) winner Albus were among the Kentucky Derby (G1) contenders who breezed across the country April 18, two weeks out from the May 2 1 1/4-mile classic.
- Grand National hero Noble Yeats has died at the age of 11 after suffering from colic, shortly after the fourth anniversary of his Aintree triumph for the Waley-Cohen family and trainer Emmet Mullins.
- The Inglis HTBA Australia Yearling Sale this April 19 provides a proven opportunity to buy bargain-priced colts and fillies now that the big players have already done their shopping at the majors.
- American Stakes
- VisitLEX Elkhorn Stakes
- Henry S. Clark Stakes
- Bathhouse Row Stakes
- It's Only Money Stakes
- Valley Of The Vapors Stakes
- Weber City Miss Stakes
- John Shear Stakes
- King T. Leatherbury Stakes
- Pepsi Stakes