Horse Racing News on June 25, 2010

Once upon a time, the Victoria Park Stakes was considered a prep for the Queen's Plate.

The speedy American shipper Get Stormy will put his five-race win streak on the line Sunday at Woodbine in the $300,000 King Edward, a Grade 2 turf stakes that has been shortened from its traditional distance of nine furlongs to a mile this year.

One of Alex Solis' favorite hiking spots is the Mount Wilson Trail, in the town of Sierra Madre -- just north of Santa Anita Park where Solis won five of his 16 career southern California riding titles.

For the first time, General Consensus will start in a stakes that does not include division leader Tuscan Evening.

Devil May Care may have found the company too tough and the distance too far when she finished 10th in the Kentucky Derby.