Paul Pompa’s grade 1 winner Connect added Belmont Park’s $200,000 Westchester Stakes (G3) May 6 to his list of victories, which has now reached six out of lifetime starts.

Four weeks after her easy, frontrunning victory in the Providencia Stakes (G3T), the California-bred daughter of Surf Cat put in a repeat performance May 6 in the $100,000 Senorita Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.

Following a tracking trip under John Velazquez, Always Dreaming took command in the stretch to score a 2 3/4-length victory in the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) May 6 at Churchill Downs.

Gunpowder Farms’ Divisidero rolled down the center of the Churchill Downs turf course, winning the $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (G1T) for the second year in a row.

There seems to be little doubt that Galileo has a stranglehold on the QIPCO Two Thousand Guineas (G1) as a sire. His latest victor is the Coolmore/Ballydoyle star Churchill who took the May 6 running by a length as the 6-4 favorite.

It took more than a year, but race circumstance finally cycled back into the 5-year-old gelding’s favor as he barely held off Awesome Slew on the line to take the $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes Presented by Twinspires.com (G2). 

Martin Schwartz’ Sea Calisi made her return to the races a winning one in the $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes (G2T) May 6 at Belmont Park.

Calumet Farm’s homebred Wild Shot was much the best when he opened up by four lengths in the stretch to win the May 6 $250,000 Pat Day Mile Stakes Presented by LG&E and KU (G3).

Donegal Racing’s colt gets graded stakes with second win

Roca Rojo and Believe in Bertie thrilled the Derby Day crowd at Churchill Downs with a stirring stretch battle in the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile, won by a nose by Roca Rojo.

Juddmonte Farms’ recent purchase Paulassilverlining had never run at Churchill Downs before, but that didn’t stop her from collecting her second consecutive grade 1 May 6 with a game victory in the $300,000 Humana Distaff (G1).

China Horse Club bloodstock manager Michael Wallace predicts Abel Tasman’s Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) victory May 5 at Churchill Downs would make waves in China.

With a steady drizzle and temperatures in the mid-40s in Louisville, Ky. at 9:30 a.m. on May 6, fans trickled into Churchill Downs ahead of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1).

Trainer Scott Fairlie recorded his 1,000th career win May 5 when the 5-year-old mare Aunt Sue raced to victory in a seven-furlong claiming race at Woodbine.

A wet Kentucky Oaks Day with temperatures closer to winter than springtime led to declines in attendance and on-track handle at Churchill Downs.

The term “wide-open” has been tossed about the Churchill Downs backstretch like a baseball of late whenever the connections of Kentucky Derby aspirants are asked about the complexion of this year’s Run for the Roses.

China Horse Club and Clearsky Farms’ Abel Tasman rallied on the outside in the stretch to score a 1 1/4-length victory May 5 in the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs.

China Horse Club and Clearsky Farm’s Abel Tasman, 9-1 winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) has set up potential payouts for the Oaks/Kentucky Derby double ranging from $73 to $1,195.