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Keeneland's spring meet concluded April 26 with all-sources wagering exceeding $218 million, the third-highest handle in track history.
When Society Man runs in the Kentucky Derby (G1), his co-owner, Anthony Melfi of GMP Stables, and Gary Gullo, Melfi's stable manager, will fondly be thinking of people who played a hand in bringing the two men to Louisville for their first Derby.
Jevian Toledo, four-time leading rider at Laurel Park, had minor surgery to repair a dislocated collarbone suffered during a spill April 21.
Ribble Farms, Michael Eiserman, Earl Silver, Kenneth Fishbein, and Dave Fishbein's Honor Marie drilled an eye-catching five-furlong bullet in :59 1/5 at Churchill Downs April 25, his final work before the May 4 Kentucky Derby (G1).
It will be a bittersweet day at Golden Gate Fields April 27 as the $175,000 San Francisco Mile Stakes (G3T) is slated to be the last stakes race ever held at the track that opened in 1941.
Pricilla Schaefer, exercise rider for Danny Gargan, gets to ride two Kentucky Derby contenders each morning in Dornoch and Society Man.
Juliet Kagno will serve as The Jockey Club steward for the remainder of Aqueduct spring meet and for the Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet while Dr. Ted Hill will assume the steward position during the Saratoga summer meet.
Del Mar is projecting more than $26.6 million in total purses over the course of the eight-week meeting, the seaside track's 85th summer session. The seaside track will offer $7.875 million in stakes purses, including six grade 1 stakes.
The 2024 season at Woodbine will consist of 129 race dates and runs through Dec. 15. The first two weeks of the meet will have racing held on Saturday and Sunday.
Lane's End's Honor A. P. was represented by his first winner April 25 when Dancing Porky won the fifth race at Turf Paradise in his second career start.
