Horse Racing News on April 30, 2011

Machen dashed his connections' Kentucky Derby dreams when he flattened out to run fourth in the Risen Star Stakes and fifth in the Louisiana Derby this spring at Fair Grounds.

Most race observers expected Our Nautique to be on the lead early in the Grade 3, $100,000 San Francisco Mile at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

Whether she was third on the backstretch or challenging for the lead in early stretch, Dubawi Heights left jockey Joel Rosario with ample confidence in Saturday's $100,000 Wilshire Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Caixa Eletronica, claimed by Repole Stable and Todd Pletcher for $62,500 out of his last start at Gulfstream Park, earned back $60,000 in one fell swoop by winning Saturday's Grade 3 Westchester Stakes by three lengths.

The old-timer Musketier successfully defended his title in the Elkhorn Stakes on Friday's closing-day card at Keeneland by rallying from sixth in the final quarter-mile to take the Grade 2, $150,000 grass stakes for the second straight year.