Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

Wilkinson, a Dec. 10 maiden winner here, captured the Grade 3, $96,000 Lecomte, wearing down slow-pacesetting Pants on Fire while rallying up the rail under Garrett Gomez.

Strike Again and Gran Estreno, the one-two finishers in the Fair Grounds meet's first turf-route stakes for older males, the Dec. 4 Diliberto Memorial, are back for the Grade 3, $100,000 Colonel Bradley Handicap on Saturday.

Trainer Al Stall is about to swing into stakes action at Fair Grounds and Louisiana points beyond, but Grade 1 winner J.B.'s Thunder will not be among the stable's participants, Stall said Friday.

Jockey Robby Albarado broke his right heel in a pre-race mishap on Sunday at Fair Grounds.

Wagering on the Breeders' Cup held at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday jumped 15.5 percent compared with the betting totals for last year and established a record for the event, according to figures provided by the organization on Monday.

Goldikova, the only horse to win three Breeders' Cup races, will return to race in 2011, trainer Freddie Head confirmed Monday, saying that if all goes well her season will end with a fourth start in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

Chamberlain Bridge missed a scheduled workout last weekend because of an abscessed hoof, but he did not miss the mark in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Saturday.

Rough Sailing, who slipped and fell going into the first turn of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, had to be euthanized shortly after the race because of a broken shoulder, according to Hilary Pridham, assistant to trainer Mike Stidham.

When no rain fell at Churchill Downs this week -- same as it's been all fall here -- the chance to see Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Workforce race in the Breeders' Cup Turf evaporated.

Dubai Majesty turned an apparently well matched Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint into a one-horse race, dashing away from Champagne d'Oro and easily holding off second-place Switch to win the $1 million race by about two lengths.