Horse Racing News by Jack Shinar

Favored Include Me Out, benefiting from a rail-skimming ride under Joe Talamo, was all out to deny Star Billing in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes by a neck Aug. 4 at Del Mar for her second grade I win of the season.

Fresh off a comeback victory in the A Gleam Handicap (gr. II), dual grade I winner Switch wheels right back for trainer John Sadler while returning to two turns in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes.

Sprint champion Amazombie returned to his best form in the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes, sitting just off a hot pace and coming to get the leaders in deep stretch to win going away on the Polytrack at Del Mar July 29.

Centre Court, weaving through traffic in the stretch run on the Saratoga Race Course turf under Julien Leparoux, got the lead in deep stretch and prevailed in a roughly-run renewal of the $200,000 Lake George Stakes July 25.

Dual Grade 1 winner Switch, seeking her first victory of 2012, carries top weight of 122 pounds in the $200,000 A Gleam Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park July 14.

Santa Anita Park has taken the unusual step of renaming 14 stakes, including six Grade 1 events, for the 2012 autumn meet that begins Sept. 28.

Easy front-runner Turbo Compressor, ridden with precision by Joe Bravo, put his six rivals to sleep and coasted to a 1 3/4-length victory over Air Support in the $505,000 United Nations Stakes July 7 at Monmouth Park.

Turbo Compressor, winner of last month's Colonial Turf Cup, will attempt to give trainer Todd Pletcher his fourth victory in the United Nations Stakes July 7 at Monmouth Park.

There weren't a lot of fireworks in the $150,000 Swaps Stakes as Blueskiesnrainbows dictated an even tempo and held on gamely for his first stakes victory in the Independence Day feature at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Guys Reward, stalking three wide into the stretch on a soggy Churchill Downs turf course, drew clear approaching the furlong pole to win the closing night Firecracker Handicap by two lengths July 1.