Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

The rematch between Plum Pretty and It's Tricky turned out to be no match at all, with Plum Pretty running away to a 7 1/2- length victory in the Grade 2, $750,000 Cotillion Stakes on Saturday at Parx Racing.

There's probably no way that Saturday's $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion Stakes can live up to the race's 2010 edition.

The 4-year-old gelding Mister Marti Gras has gotten caught up in all kinds of intrigue during late summer 2011.

A field of 10, headed by Cape Blanco and Gio Ponti, was entered Tuesday for Saturday's 29th running of the Arlington Million.

Free Fighter won the Stars and Stripes in 2009, but his second victory in the race, a two-length score over Winchester on Saturday at Arlington Park, came under much different circumstances.

There is but one star in the Stars and Stripes Stakes on Saturday at Arlington, and Winchester will be bet accordingly.

Blind Luck and Havre de Grace put on the show racing fans hoped for, with Blind Luck edging her arch-rival by a nose in the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap.

Willcox Inn is two-thirds of the way to a sweep of Arlington's Mid-America Triple, and leg 2, Saturday's American Derby, was no contest.

Fantasia and Wasted Tears both stretched out from middle-distance races to try the 1 3/16-mile, Grade 3 Modesty Handicap on Saturday at Arlington. Fantasia liked the added ground. Wasted Tears, not so much.

Noble's Promise had the lead with a quarter-mile to go in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, only to fade to fifth. Saturday, the colt found the front at a more opportune time before edging away in the final 100 yards to win the 23rd running of the Aristides.