Horse Racing News by Claire Novak

Royal Delta blew It's Tricky away in the $400,000 Beldame Invitational at Belmont Park Sept. 29, drawing off to a 9 1/2-length victory under wraps.

The revamped "Road to the Kentucky Derby" series kicks off Sept. 29 with points awarded to the top four finishers in the Juddmonte Royal Lodge at Newmarket and the FrontRunner Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

Royal Delta and It's Tricky look to recover from an Aug. 26 Personal Ensign upset and eye year-end honors when they meet for a fifth time Sept. 29 in the $400,000 Beldame Invitational at Belmont Park.

Zayat Stables' Haskell Invitational winner Paynter has beaten laminitis and will be able to race again if he beats colitis, his owner said Sept. 21.

American Derby winner Cozzetti seeks a return to winning ways in the $200,000 Kent Stakes at Delaware Park Sept. 22, but plenty of new rivals are ready to take him on after his sixth-place finish in the Aug. 18 Secretariat Stakes.

I'm Boundtoscore upset the $258,205 Summer Stakes Presented by TVG at odds of 10-1 Sept. 15 at Woodbine, earning an automatic trip to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Nov. 3 at Santa Anita Park.

Champion Big Brown could be represented by the second stakes winner of his first juvenile crop when Archer Hill gets the job done over seven other 2-year-olds in the $250,000 Summer Stakes at Woodbine Sept. 15.

Stuart S. Janney III's homebred Air Support found his best stride late in the $196,000 Bowling Green Stakes on opening day of the fall meet at Belmont Park Sept. 8, wearing down frontrunner Bombaguia by a head to earn his first victory of the year.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Shackleford will not run in the $500,000 Forego Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 1, his connections said the morning of the race.

ultiple stakes winner Street Life has been retired with a career-ending soft tissue injury to his left front pastern, Dan Hall of Hidden Brook Farm confirmed Aug. 30.