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Hernandez, O’Neill Top Standings at Santa Anita Classic Meet

Juan Hernandez topped the riding standings and Doug O'Neill was the top trainer at Santa Anita's 46-day Classic Meet which concluded Sunday.

For Hernandez, a 32-year-old native of Veracruz, Mexico, this was his fifth riding title at Santa Anita. He finished with 53 wins from 245 mounts and also led all jockeys in earnings with $3,683,348.

“I just want to say thank you to everybody for all the support,” Hernandez said. “All the owners, trainers and all the people on the backside. The grooms, the gallop boys, because they do a lot of hard work over there and I only do the easy part. I'm really happy and I'm going to try to keep working hard.”

O'Neill won the trainer's title with 30 wins from 163 starts. He finished one win ahead of Mark Glatt. This was O'Neill's ninth Santa Anita trainer's title and first since the 2021 Autumn Meet.

“It is all the result of just great owners, great horses, great staff and a lot of luck,” said O'Neill. “I'm just grateful to be at the Great Race Place. I'm grateful to work alongside a lot of great men and women that have the same passion that I do. I'm just happy to work alongside horses. It is truly an honor.”

Hronis Racing narrowly won the owner's title with 11 wins at the Classic Meet, one more than Reddam Racing.

Racing resumes at Santa Anita Apr. 19 with the start of the Hollywood Meet.H

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StableConnect Becomes TOBA Sponsor

StableConnect has become a sponsorship partner of Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. Founded by Jonathan Romeo, StableConnect is dedicated to driving engagement within syndicates and uses a patent-pending, mobile-first approach to centralize access to horse information, enhance syndicate communications, better connect partners,

and enable frictionless syndicate transactions.

“We are excited to welcome StableConnect as a TOBA sponsor,” said TOBA president Dan Metzger. “With the

growth of racing partnerships throughout our sport over the past decade, StableConnect provides an ideal and invaluable resource for managing the Thoroughbred ownership experience. TOBA is honored to partner with a company whose goal is to provide exceptional service to partnerships and owners and their support of our sport is greatly appreciated.”

Romeo added, “The team at StableConnect is proud to partner with TOBA. All of us at StableConnect are passionate Thoroughbred racing fans with ownership stakes in horses

like Goodnight Olive and Tiz the Law. Our love of this sport has inspired us to create a robust communication platform for owners, trainers and stable managers everywhere. With the demand for instant updates and information in our industry, the complexities of day-to-day management and communication have become more rigorous and time consuming. StableConnect puts your stable in the palm of your hand with up-to-date race and workout information, live-streaming and more so that managing partners can focus on more trips to the winner's circle.”

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Stewart’s Resolute Racing Buys Into Pegasus F&M Turf Winner Didia

John Stewart's Resolute Racing has purchased this year's GII Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf Invitational S. winner Didia (Arg) (Orpen), he told the TDN in a text message. He will race her in partnership with her owners, John Moores's and Charles Noell's Merriebelle Stable.

Didia is entered in this Saturday's GI Jenny Wiley S. at Keeneland.

“I have a ranking system I use and she was at the top,” said Stewart. “I have been trying to buy her for four months. The agreement is for me to buy her. I pay half now and half when she retires and we race her together from this weekend at Keeneland.”

Didia, also the winner of the GII Rodeo Drive S. at Santa Anita and the GIII Modesty S. at Churchill, was also second in the GI New York S. at Belmont Park.

In her native Argentina, the now six-year-old was a two-time Group 1 winner. She arrived in the U.S. in 2022, and won six of eight starts since that time, bringing her lifetime record to 10 of 15 lifetime starts. She has earned just over $1 million.

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Report: CDI Files Motion To Dismiss Zedan’s Derby Lawsuit

Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI) filed a motion Apr. 8 to dismiss a lawsuit by Zedan Racing Stables, Inc., that seeks to lift a CDI-imposed ban against horses trained by Bob Baffert in the GI Kentucky Derby.

Jason Frakes of the Louisville Courier Journal was among the first to report on the motion, which was filed in Kentucky the same morning as a Jefferson County Circuit Court hearing was held on the matter.

That Monday hearing put off until at least Apr. 15 a decision on owner Amr Zedan's request for an injunction or on CDI's motion to dismiss.

“Everybody involved in horse racing is watching this issue, I'm sure,” Judge Mitch Perry was quoted in the Courier Journal.

Zedan owns the GI Arkansas Derby winner Muth (Good Magic), who would be among the Derby favorites if allowed to race.

It is unclear if a ruling in favor of Zedan would allow other Baffert trainees owned by different entities to also participate in the Derby, or if any lifting of the ban would also permit Baffert's trainees to enter the GI Kentucky Oaks.

According to the Courier Journal, CDI's motion stated that “The demand for a last-minute judicial takeover of the world's most storied horse race…is baseless, outrageous and should be immediately rejected.”

After Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone in the 2021 Derby, Baffert was banned from CDI's properties for two years. A federal judge in February 2023 denied Baffert a preliminary injunction that the Hall-of-Fame trainer had sought to be eligible to race in the Derby. Last July CDI extended the ban at least through 2024.

Baffert is not a party to this latest lawsuit filed by Zedan in a Kentucky state court.

“CDI's spurious, illegal extension of the suspension does not withstand scrutiny and imperils a host of interested stakeholders,” Zedan's Apr. 3 complaint stated.

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