Carolyn Greer

With the year that Kenny McPeek has had, it might have been a bit of an understatement when he said Monday, “We've had a lot of really nice horses in the system.”

Big Paradise earned the highest Brisnet Speed Rating of the week, 103, for his win in the Juvenile Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

Book'em Danno worked Friday morning at Belmont Park ahead of an expected start in next weekend's Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap.

Rated by Merit, who brought his record to 4-for-4 with a win Saturday in the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association Florida Sire In Reality Stakes, earned the highest Brisnet Speed Rating of the week, 109.

Nobals, entered in Saturday's Grade 1 Hong Kong Sprint, developed a fever but is expected to start, trainer Larry Rivelli said Tuesday.

In his 11th year of training, not counting a brief stint at the turn of the century, Foster has earnings of $2.2 million this year, a career high. He won his first training title at Turfway Park’s winter-spring meet, edging Brad Cox by one win. And he had a filly run in the Kentucky Oaks after a win in the Bourbonette Stakes at Turfway.

Locked earned the highest speed figures of the week when he continued his impressive comeback with a win in Saturday's Grade 2 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct.

Eoin Harty hasn’t had a Kentucky Derby contender since 2018, but he’s got two in the early running after First Resort won the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club on Nov. 30 and Poster won the Remsen (G2) a week later.

Howard Wolowitz, a 3-year-old Munnings colt trained by Jose Francisco D'Angelo, earned the highest speed figures among last week's stakes winners for his victory in the Holiday Cheer on Saturday at Turfway Park.

Cherie DeVaux updates on 7 stakes runners, 5 promising 2-year-olds.