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Laura Otten had previously owned an off-the-track Thoroughbred and always intended to return to riding and horse ownership. Over the years, she had followed several aftercare organizations, hoping to adopt another Thoroughbred someday. When the COVID-19 pandemic happened, it unexpectedly accelerated those plans. Otten began actively searching for her next horse, specifically a gelding suited for pleasure riding and low-level Eventing.

This upcoming weekend, the final stretch of prep races for the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve begin, with each race save one offering a total of 200 qualifying points to the top five finishers.

Horse racing is a sport full of jargon: for hardcore fans of the game, the sentence, “He worked a bullet over three panels in 35 and change” makes absolute and perfect sense. (The translation is: this horse was the fastest workout of the morning going three-eighths of a mile, traveling the distance in just over 35 seconds.)

The 98th Academy Awards arrives Sunday, March 15 beginning at 7 p.m. ET, and horse racing aficionados can revel in the implicit recognition the sport of kings annually receives when journalists and film buffs adopt racing’s handicapping lingo to forecast the night’s winners.

The upcoming weekend in horse racing is highlighted by one Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve prep – the Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs – and by the pinnacle event of the year for gamblers, the National Horseplayers Champ

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