Horse Racing News on February 18, 2013

Top turf sprinter Mizdirection hadn't raced as far as a mile since the summer of her sophomore campaign, but she looked like a natural when stepping back up to that distance in Monday's Grade 2, $150,750 Buena Vista Handicap at Santa Anita.

Super Ninety Nine rolled to an 11 1/4-length win in the Southwest Stakes for Susan and Charles Chu's Tanma Corporation, muddling the 3-year-old picture even more as the top three finishers from the Smarty Jones Stakes finished off the board.

Doctors at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington said Monday, Feb. 18, that 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra remains stable as she recovers from abdominal surgery performed Feb. 13 following foaling complications.