Horse Racing News by Claire Novak

Stonestreet's Teen Pauline seeks her first graded-stakes score and third straight stakes win March 1 at Aqueduct Racetrack, when she takes on a small but salty field of fillies and mares in the $200,000 Top Flight Handicap.

Starlight Racing's Intense Holiday finally got his graded score, and did so with a thrilling late run by a nose Feb. 22 in the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

Robert Baker and William Mack's Hopeful Stakes winner Strong Mandate returns to action for the first time since the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in the $300,000 Southwest Stakes Feb. 17 at Oaklawn Park, class of a 12-horse field drawn for the 1 1/16-mile event.

Two New York-breds stood out in a six-horse field heading into the $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack, and those two put on quite a show while developing a rivalry that could continue on the road to the Kentucky Derby.

Honors Stable Corporation's Wildcat Red turned in a sparkling performance Feb. 1 at Gulfstream Park, taking the $200,000 Hutcheson Stakes over eight other 3-year-olds in dominant fashion. The Feb. 22 Fountain of Youth will be his next target.

The last time racing fans saw Grade 2 winner Cairo Prince, he was ding-donging down the stretch with highly regarded Honor Code in a thrilling edition of the Nov. 30 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Veteran trainer Thomas H. Voss, known for both his success in the steeplechase world and with runners on the flat, died Jan. 21 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Monkton, Md. He was 63.

In five Grade 1 races and a pair of Grade 2 events, the only male in North America to take home four Grade 1 victories, Wise Dan galloped his way through the most consistent season delivered by a racehorse in 2013 -- year-end honors firmly in his sights.

He never backed down from a fight, and wherever they entered him, he ran.

E. Paul Robsham Stables' homebred Sweet N Discreet made a successful try at 1 ⅛ miles for the first time Jan. 18 at Gulfstream Park, taking the $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff by 1 ½ lengths over Devil's Cave.