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Co-owner Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners posted on X that trainer Michael McCarthy has "green-lighted" the colt for the $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1).

Grade 1 winner Johannes is nearing his first work of the year after spending more than two months on a Kentucky farm, trainer Tim Yakteen said May 11.

Reserve Bank capped off a remarkable month with a career-high victory in The Goodwood (G1) May 10 at Morphettville. The 3-year-old son of Capitalist was coming off back-to-back wins in the Redelva Stakes and the Tobin Bronze Stakes (G2) April 26.

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) winner Henri Matisse surges late to capture the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas, G1) for trainer Aidan O'Brien.

The Chad Brown-trained reigning champion 3-year-old colt Sierra Leone was on the work tab May 11 over the Belmont Park dirt training track, covering a half-mile in :50.

Michael McCarthy was in Kentucky May 11 to watch Journalism train, but said a decision on entering the $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1) would not be made until May 12, the day of entries.

Panja Tower won a frantic, four-way dash to the finish in the NHK Mile Cup (G1) for 3-year-olds May 11 at Tokyo Racecourse.

Whitham Thoroughbreds' Burnham Square, a troubled sixth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby (G1), is being pointed to the $400,000 Matt Winn Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs June 8, according to trainer Ian Wilkes.

With six days to go until the $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course, Bob Baffert-trained Goal Oriented recorded a half-mile in :47 3/5 at Churchill Downs May 11.

Rallying from eighth in the field of nine, Amo Racing USA's Hill Road closed powerfully in the final furlong to collar the dueling Rick Dutrow Jr. duo and win the Peter Pan Stakes (G3) by three-quarters of a length May 10 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Jody's Pride scored a breakthrough graded stakes victory May 10 in the $200,000 Ruffian Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Shisospicy kept the flame burning hot for her third win in a row for Morplay Racing, capturing the $224,625 Mamzelle Stakes (G3T) May 10 at Churchill Downs.

Strong-finishing Abaan denied champion Snap Decision to win the $250,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois Stakes (NSA-G1) at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tenn.

The $169,750 John A. Nerud Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack was short on competitors, but not on drama. Three sprinters battled to a photo finish, with Whatchatalkinabout narrowly prevailing over Silver Slugger and Surveillance.

Leinster extended his early lead over the freshman sire class when his 2-year-old daughter Lennilu gave the first-crop stallion his first stakes winner in the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies Stakes May 10 at Gulfstream Park.

Hollie Doyle praised Hayley Turner after surpassing her former weighing-room colleague as the winningmost female jockey in Britain following her 1,023rd victory on Brindavan at Ascot Racecourse May 10.

Leinster extended his early lead over the freshman sire class when his 2-year-old daughter Lennilu gave the first-crop stallion his first stakes winner in the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies Stakes May 10 at Gulfstream Park.

A well-bred Night of Thunder colt sold for €1.9 million in Deauville May 10 to lead the record proceedings at the Arqana Breeze Up Sale.

A dual grade1 winner a year ago, LSU Stables' Far Bridge continued a sharp start to his 5-year-old season by cruising to a comfortable length victory in the $388,000 Man o' War Stakes (G2T) May 10 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Newmarket has been and gone, and the Curragh is still to come, but it is the turn of Longchamp to provide the next chapter of the European classic season May 11, starting with the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas, G1).