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Here’s how hot trainer Todd Pletcher has been with his 3-year-olds: He won yet another Kentucky Derby prep last weekend — except this time it was with the “wrong” [...]

Another Photo-Finish.

Mission Impazible pulled ahead just past the 16th pole yesterday to win his first race
as a 3-year-old in the $750,000 Louisiana Derby, one of the final major prep
races for the Kentucky Derby, in New Orleans.
The Todd Pletcher-trained colt, ridden by Rajiv Maragh and starting from the second post
at 7-1 odds, covered the 11/8-mile course in [...]

Ice Box takes the Florida Derby in a “photo-finish”! Just the way we like it.

The top three finishers from Saturday’s $750,000 Florida Derby came out of their races in good order and will now set their sights on the May 1 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, their connections said Sunday.
Ice Box, Pleasant Prince, and Rule [...]

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Rule, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, will break from post 7
in a field of 11 3-year-olds entered for Saturday’s $750,000 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
Rule, the only graded stakes winner in the field, will be ridden by jockey John Velazquez.
“It’s a good post for him,” Velazquez said after the draw. “He [...]

Barbaro, what a great horse!
By BILL FINLEY
Hoping to follow the same path that led his famous brother to the Kentucky Derby,
Lentenor was among 11 horses entered Wednesday for the Grade I Florida Derby on Saturday.
Lentenor is a full brother to Barbaro, who won the 2006 Florida Derby in his final start
before the Kentucky Derby. [...]

With Zenyatta’s impressive win at the Grade 1, $250,000 Santa
Margarita Invitational Handicap and Rachel Alexandra’s upset loss to Zardana in New Orleans, the horse racing
world is buzzing. But its not too early to think about the Kentucky Derby. The Contenders.

By Tom Luicci/The Star-Ledger
Buddy’s Saint,
shown winning the Remsen Stakes in November, is out of the [...]

ARCADIA, Calif. – Zenyatta kept up her end of the bargain, weaving through
traffic to capture her 15th straight victory in the Grade 1, $250,000 Santa
Margarita Invitational Handicap on Saturday at Santa Anita.

Her race took place less than a half-hour after Rachel Alexandra was upset in
her first start of the year. Both Zardana, who won [...]

With the racing world looking forward to an April 9 matchup between Rachel Alexandra
and the John Shirreffs-trained Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom, Rachel Alexandra failed
to handle the Shirreffs “B” Team on Saturday at Fair Grounds.

Zardana, Zenyatta’s much-less-heralded stablemate, inched past Rachel Alexandra in the
stretch of the $200,000 New Orleans Ladies and held off the [...]

The Fields:
10th (5:15)
New Orleans Ladies S.
1 1/16 Miles | Fillies and Mares | 4 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $200,000
Prg. # PP Horse Jockey Trainer Wt. Claim $ Equip. Med. ML
1 Fighter Wing Lanerie C J Geier Greg 117 L 15-1
2 Rachel Alexandra Borel C H Asmussen Steven M 123 L [...]