Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

Jordy Y and Honey Chile were among 13 horses entered in the Lassie, one of two Grade 3, $100,000, one-turn-mile Polytrack races for 2-year-olds at Arlington on Saturday. The Lassie goes as race 8, the Futurity as race 6.

The trainer Greg Geier has sent out a grand total of one winner from 20 starters during the 2010 Arlington Park race meet, with Country Flavor scoring an upset victory in the Grade 3 Hanshin Cup on May 29.

Workin for Hops will try to pull off a rare sweep of Arlington's Mid-America Triple when he starts in the Grade 1 $400,000 Secretariat on Million Day here Saturday.

The same horses pre-entered Friday in the 28th Arlington Million were officially entered Tuesday in an informal racing-office draw at Arlington Park, with the 7-5 morning-line favorite, Gio Ponti, landing post 6 in a 10-horse field.

Saturday, trainer Mike Stidham tapped Cisco Torres to ride American Derby favorite Workin for Hops. Torres put a perfect ride on his pick-up mount, who proved much the best as the favorite in the Grade 2, $200,000 turf race for 3-year-olds.

The Tuscan Evening show has hit the road. Deadly in California, Tuscan Evening has brought her considerable talents to Arlington Park in an excellent edition of the Grade 3, $150,000 Modesty Handicap.

When General Quarters won the 2009 Blue Grass Stakes and went on to the Kentucky Derby, the story line screamed, 'Write me!' And any scribe covering last year's Derby readily obliged.

There will be no three-peat for Presious Passion in the United Nation Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

Discouraged by stakes purse cuts at Arlington Park, Jonathan Sheppard mulled other plans for horses he was considering bringing to Chicago this summer, but while Just as Well's status for a repeat bid in the Arlington Handicap remains up in the air.

The track on Friday night at Prairie Meadows played fast, but Majesticperfection played faster.