Horse Racing News by Bloodhorse

Eblouissante, a half sister to Horse of the Year Zenyatta, will make her long-awaited return to the races during opening week at Saratoga Race Course, either in the $200,000 Shuvee Handicap July 20 or a second-level optional claimer July 22.

Game On Dude zipped four furlongs in :47 4/5 over the artificial surface at Betfair Hollywood Park the morning of July 1 as the gelding worked toward a defense of his title in the July 6 Hollywood Gold Cup.

Trainer Mike Mitchell was taken to Centinela Hospital Medical Center by ambulance June 16 after collapsing on the track at Betfair Hollywood Park following the sixth race.

Newmarket-based trainer Gerard Butler will soon be charged by the British Horseracing Authority over his use of the drug Sungate, which contains the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol.

New York State Gaming Commission and New York Racing Association have joined together to enhance Belmont Stakes security.

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, his Preakness winner Oxbow, and the rest of his nine-horse contingent this week at Pimlico Race Course were on the highway before dawn May 19 heading back to the Hall of Fame conditioner's home base at Churchill Downs.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission received the post-race test results May 7 from both the Longines Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, and all samples have been cleared with no irregularities found.

Nehro, Zayat Stables' runner-up in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, died of colic May 4 while en route to a clinic.

Although several other horses that prepped at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots ran well in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Al Stall Jr. has no regrets about having Departing skip the race to run fresh in the May 18 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

Two horses who were unplaced in the Kentucky Derby -- Normandy Invasion and Vyjack -- have been added to the list of possible candidates for the May 18 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.