Horse Racing News on July 5, 2013

With victories last season in the Breeders' Cup Turf, Arlington Million and Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, Little Mike plundered three of the country's most significant turf stakes.

On paper many of the entries for this year's $116,000 Jersey Shore Stakes appeared to possess early speed.

After defeating other New York-breds on the lead in his previous start, King Kreesa replicated that front-running effort against open company in the $150,000 Poker Stakes July 4 at Belmont Park to secure the first graded stakes win of his career.