Horse Racing News by Brisnet

Two races after Beholder coasted in the Santa Anita Oaks, Jimmy Creed gave owner Spendthrift Farm, trainer Richard Mandella and jockey Garrett Gomez their second major score on Saturday's card in the Grade 2, $150,250 Potrero Grande at Santa Anita.

Having chased returning rivals Discreet Dancer and Fort Loudon in a pair of recent stakes at Gulfstream Park, Silverton Hill's Swagger Jack earned a little payback Saturday in the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.

Juddmonte Farms' Close Hatches successfully passed the stakes test on Saturday when holding off Princess of Sylmar to take the Grade 2, $250,000 Gazelle.

Winner of the Grade 1 Alcibiades last October, Spring in the Air will return to Keeneland's Polytrack for Saturday's Grade 1 Ashland.

The juggernaut that is the Todd Pletcher stable, victorious in five graded stakes last weekend, will be no less prominent on Wood Memorial Day at Aqueduct on Saturday.

WinStar Farm's Revolutionary gamely fended off a stretch challenge from 19-1 longshot Mylute to land the centennial running of the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby on Saturday.

Stonestreet Stables' homebred Dreaming of Julia vied with Live Lively for favoritism in Saturday's Grade 2, $300,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks.

Michael B. Tabor's Ciao Bella was much the best as she wired the six-horse field in the Grade 3, $150,000 Rampart Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday for her first stakes victory.

Not long after Midnight Lucky routed the Sunland Park Oaks, Govenor Charlie made it a track record-setting double for owner Mike Pegram, trainer Bob Baffert and young sire Midnight Lute when opening up in the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby.

A world record of 2:22.72 for 1 1/2 miles on turf set by Bright Thought in last week's San Luis Rey at Santa Anita didn't last long as Twilight Eclipse narrowly bested that mark by completing Saturday's Pan American in a time of 2:22.63 over a firm turf.