Steve Andersen

Somerset West recorded a career-defining win in the Grade 2 Music City Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Kentucky Downs on Saturday that has trainer John Sadler debating an autumn plan for the rapidly improving runner.

Magnificat went from a win in a minor sprint stakes in early June to a victory in a restricted mile stakes at Del Mar on Saturday.

Effortless Favorite and Flying Joy 1 accounted for two of the biggest wins for 2-year-olds at the 2025 Remington Park winter-spring Quarter Horse meeting. On Sunday at the Downs at Albuquerque, they were the center of attention in two of this year’s leading races. It was not easy to predict.

On Sunday, a few hours after Hughes became Bob Baffert's 20th Del Mar Futurity winner, the Hall of Fame trainer added more perspective to the accomplishment.

Early Encore rebounded from a disappointing third-place finish in his stakes debut last month to win Monday’s $100,500 I’m Smokin Stakes at six furlongs at Del Mar on the closing day of the track’s summer meeting.

Medoro was reunited with an old partner for Monday’s Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at Del Mar, a man quite familiar with the winner’s circle after stakes races this summer.

Cowboys Flying maintained his perfect record in the grandest setting at the Downs at Albuquerque on Monday. Cowboys Flying won for the sixth time in as many starts in the sport’s richest race, the $3 million All American Futurity.

Del Mar showed growth in handle at its summer meeting that ended Monday compared to the corresponding meeting in 2025, according to figures compiled by Daily Racing Form.

Billie Holiday's appearance in Saturday's $100,000 Becca Taylor Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos can be partially blamed on sentimentalism. Billie Holiday, who has won her last two starts by at least 4 1/4 lengths, races for owner and breeder Nick Alexander and trainer Steve Miyadi. Alexander and Miyadi also raced Becca Taylor, who won 9 of 10 starts.

On Sunday at Los Alamitos, jockey Drayden Van Dyke has two mounts on a modest eight-race program, including contender Bessie Coleman in an allowance race for California-bred fillies and mares at 5 1/2 furlongs that goes as race 4.