Horse Racing News by Matt Hegarty

All horses who are entered in the five Breeders' Cup races for juveniles in 2012 will be prohibited from using the diuretic Lasix on race day to treat bleeding in the lungs under a policy adopted by the Breeders' Cup on Thursday.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a decision by the state's racing commission to award $15 million in casino subsidies to the state's Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries, according to a letter Christie sent to the commission.

Trainer Jeff Mullins was granted a stay by a San Diego Superior Court on Thursday, allowing him to avoid thestart of 70-day suspension for a medication violation that was scheduled to begin on Wednesday until further hearings are conducted.

Yavapai Downs in Prescott, Ariz., has canceled its 2011 racing meet, just days after the track took entries for its scheduled opening-day card on Saturday, according to published reports.

Trainer Jeff Mullins filed a motion in U.S. Superior Court on Wednesday requesting a stay of a 70-day suspension that he is scheduled to begin serving June 1, citing violations of his due-process rights by the California Horse Racing Board.

The trainer of the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes on April 14 at Keeneland Racecourse has filed an appeal of a complaint that the second-place finisher should not have been allowed to start.

The Breeders' Cup has conducted a major overhaul of its "Challenge" series that guarantees winners of designated stakes races berths in one of the 14 races of its annual year-end event, dropping 24 races from last year's schedule and adding 27.

Turbulent Descent drew off in the final furlong to run her career record to 5 for 6 with an easy score as an odds-on favorite Sunday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Beaumont Stakes at Keeneland.

Nicole H returned from her winter break as good if not better than she went into it, sailing through the wind and rain at Aqueduct to take Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Distaff Handicap by 2 1/2 lengths.

Kentucky racing regulators denied a license to the controversial trainer Richard Dutrow on Wednesday, likely causing the scratch of two horses he has entered in stakes races at Keeneland and signaling that his career has begun to be imperiled.