Horse Racing News on October 12, 2011

Grade 1 winners Winter Memories and Summer Soiree will have their first meeting on Saturday when the pair line up as part of an eight-filly field in the Grade 1 , $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.

Midnight Interlude, the unluckiest of losers in two starts on the turf at Del Mar this summer, heads a field of 14 entered in the $150,000 Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita Oct. 15.

Willcox Inn, who captured the first two legs of Arlington's Mid-America Triple over the summer, will seek to add to his trophy case in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Hawthorne Derby.

The once-beaten Unbridled Humor will try to make it two Grade 3 wins in a row when she lines up Saturday for the $100,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park, a 1 1/16-mile test over the Widener turf.

New York regulators revoked Rick Dutrow's license for at least 10 years and fined him $50,000 for what they said has been a pattern of rules violations by the controversial trainer.