With the defection of grade 1 winner and morning-line favorite Eda and super filly Secret Oath tackling the males in the Arkansas Derby (G1), the April 2 $600,000 Fantasy Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park has suddenly become anyone’s race. Source

As a prep on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, the $750,000 Wood Memorial Presented by Resorts World Casino (G2) April 9 at Aqueduct Racetrack is the star attraction. But one of the other races on the program is also luring a compelling lineup. Source

This year’s Japanese Kentucky Derby (G1) representative, Teruya Yoshida’s Crown Pride, arrived at Churchill Downs’ quarantine facility March 30 and could clear his 42-hour quarantine by 8 a.m. April 1. Source

Two-time grade 1 winner Gufo is scheduled to make his first start of the 2022 season in the $200,000 Pan American Stakes Presented by Rood & Riddle (G2T) April 2 on the Gulfstream Park turf. Source

Joseph O’Brien is plotting another major globetrotting campaign for Ladbrokes Cox Plate (G1) hero State of Rest, who is set to return to Australia this season after an ownership deal was struck with New South Wales-based Newgate Stud Farm. Source

Dark Moon Rising wins the final leg of the “European Road to the Kentucky Derby” but no runner from that seven-race series will be involved in the Run for the Roses. Source

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission wants Bob Baffert’s case in the Kentucky Court of Appeals dismissed, arguing that Franklin Circuit Court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to rule on the underlying case. Source

Greatest Honour went to the sidelines for nearly a year following last year’s Florida Derby (G1), returning to action in the $100,000 Challenger Stakes (G3) March 12 at Tampa Bay Downs, finishing a disappointing sixth. Source