Horse Racing News on August 24, 2013

Will Take Charge and trainer D.Wayne Lukas rallied from off the pace to run down huge long shot Moreno to win the $1,000,000 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Capo Bastone, a colt that had long failed to tap his potential, finally displayed his talent with a roaring finish to capture the $500,000 Foxwoods King's Bishop Stakes going away at odds of 27-1 Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Richard Santulli's Laughing captured her third victory in as many starts this year with a wire-to-wire victory in the Ketel One Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Steve Beneto's Sweet Lulu shipped across the country, ran on dirt for the first time, tackled graded stakes company, and emerged victorious in the $500,000 Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 24.

Jockey agents and trainers on both coasts were left scrambling the morning of Aug. 24 as news broke that jockey Joel Rosario would be sidelined for six weeks with a fractured bone in his left foot.