Horse Racing News by Steve Andersen
Posted 5/24/10 12:17 PM by Steve Andersen
Zenyatta worked six furlongs in 1:13.00 at Hollywood Park on Monday, moving closer to a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap there on June 13.
Posted 5/21/10 9:42 PM by Steve Andersen
The California Horse Racing Board passed a motion on Thursday stating that Oak Tree Racing Association holds racing dates for five weeks this fall.
Posted 5/21/10 9:38 PM by Steve Andersen
A week after their glamorous win in the Preakness Stakes with Lookin At Lucky, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Martin Garcia team together again Saturday at Hollywood Park with quite a bit less at stake.
Posted 5/21/10 8:42 PM by Steve Andersen
Mel Stute's tribute to the late champion Snow Chief took place at his Southern California home on Wednesday, five days after the horse died of an apparent heart attack at Eagle Oak Ranch in Paso Robles, Calif.
Posted 5/21/10 8:14 PM by Steve Andersen
Forever Together, the champion turf female of 2008, will start in the $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park next Saturday, her first race in Southern California since a third in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita last November.
Posted 5/3/10 1:14 PM by Steve Andersen
Kentucky Oaks heroine Blind Luck may make her next start in the $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park on June 26, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday.
Posted 4/30/10 1:24 AM by Steve Andersen
In the last couple of years, Czechers has been sent to Turf Paradise to win two stakes.
Posted 4/25/10 10:30 PM by Steve Andersen
Zenyatta will make her next start in the Grade 1, $250,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park on June 13, trainer John Shirreffs said Sunday.
Posted 4/25/10 10:07 PM by Steve Andersen
Gallant Son may have found a permanent home on turf after his emphatic win in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.
Posted 4/24/10 3:54 PM by Steve Andersen
Setsuko will run at Churchill Downs this weekend, but not in the race that trainer Richard Mandella would prefer.