Horse Racing News on June 2, 2012

Padua Stables' homebred Rothko easily proved best under the lights in Saturday's Grade 3, $109,400 Aristides, registering his first stakes win with a 2 1/2-length victory at Churchill Downs.

Catesby W. Clay's homebred Bizzy Caroline was a horse for the course at Churchill Downs last year, and the Ken McPeek trainee needed to call on all of her local savvy to catch the front-running Heavenly Landing in Saturday night's Mint Julep Handicap.

Showing he's happy to be back in the Golden State, Game On Dude romped to victory in the aptly named Californian Stakes June 2 in his first start since a nearly tragic trip to the Dubai two months ago.

Former President Bill Clinton says I'll Have Another has a "good chance" to win the Belmont Stakes June 9 and become racing's first Triple Crown winner in 34 years.

Dr. Kendall Hansen and Skychai Racing's Hansen turned in a bullet work at Churchill Downs' Trackside Training Center in Kentucky June 2.

The attempt by Eric Fein's C C's Pal to lull her opposition to sleep in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park looked in the stretch as if was going to backfire.

Doug O'Neill knows how to play to a New York audience.