Horse Racing News on July 25, 2013

Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow drew post 5 and was installed as the 2-1 second choice for the $1 million William Hill Haskell Invitational to be run July 28 at Monmouth Park.

The protagonists in Saturday's Grade 1, $600,000 Diana are well known, mostly to each other.

Stonestreet Stables' Kauai Katie has not run at Saratoga Race Course since winning the Adirondack Stakes as a 2-year-old -- but she's 2-for-2 at the upstate oval, having broken her maiden at first asking there by 12 lengths.

There's Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice … and then there's everyone else.

A field of six was entered Wednesday morning for Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar, and trainer Bob Baffert has the powerful 1-2 punch of Paynter and Liaison primed to go.