Horse Racing News on April 28, 2011

If Mambo Meister is going to successfully defend his title in the $125,000 Miami Mile on Saturday he's going to have to do it the hard way.

Scoring a victory in a graded race is reward enough for any trainer, but there is a race within the race in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 San Francisco Mile at Golden Gate Fields.

Kentucky is regarded as a border state, but not in regards to Canada. Yet when the Keeneland spring meet ends Friday with the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes, it just might be all Canada all over the board.