Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

The stakes races Saturday at Arlington, the Arlington Matron and the Arlington Classic, were of the Grade 3 and listed variety, but the winner of each may be ready for bigger game.
Rewilding, third in the 2010 English Derby, won the biggest race of his career in Saturday's $5 million Sheema Classic at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, giving jockey Frankie Dettori his second winner of the Dubai World Cup undercard.
In the 2009 Dubai Duty Free, Presvis beat 14 rivals by at least two lengths, but pacesetting Gladiatorus ran the race of his life that night, and Presvis had to settle for second.
In his last four Group 1 appearances, Rocket Man had finished second by a head, second by a neck, second by a half-length, and second by a neck. Ouch.
Skysurfers, capturing the first group or graded stakes in the 10th start of his career, burst to the lead in midstretch and turned back an inside challenge from Mufarrh to win the $1 million Godolphin Mile by a half-length.
J J the Jet Plane confirmed his position as one of the world's best turf sprinters with a brave victory in the $1 million Al Quoz Sprint
Flashpoint ran off to a 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Travelin Man and Flashpoint comprise one-fifth of an apparently strong edition of the Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson, a seven-furlong dirt sprint.
Kathmanblu solidified her position near the top - if not atop - the 3-year-old filly division with a workmanlike 1 1/4-length win in the Grade 3, $147,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds.
Drosselmeyer's 4-year-old debut will be delayed while the horse recovers from a minor virus that infected him last week.
 
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