Horse Racing News

California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, drew the outside gate in a field of nine for the $10 million Dubai World Cup March 28, and co-owner Steve Coburn said he loves that spot.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission March 23 approved a regulation that would permit the state's racetracks to card races that would prohibit the administration of furosemide, also known as Salix or Lasix, within 24 hours of post time. The vote was 8-4.

Ron the Greek, a multiple Grade 1 winner in the U.S. who now races in Saudi Arabia, will miss the $10 million Dubai World Cup March 28 because of an unspecified injury.

Arnold Zetcher's Firing Line threw his hat emphatically into the ring of Triple Crown contenders with a dominating victory in the $800,000 Sunland Derby March 22 at Sunland Park.

A year and a half after his last stakes start, Ashleyluvssugar broke through for his first graded stakes win in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes March 21 at Santa Anita Park.

Harold Queen's homebred Sheer Drama finally got a clean trip over the Gulfstream Park dirt course and showed what she's capable of unencumbered in the $200,000 Royal Delta Stakes March 21.

A three-horse spill in the sixth race March 21 at Tampa Bay Downs sent jockeys Keiber Coa, Silvia Zapico, and Ricardo Mejias to the St. Joseph's Hospital Trauma Center in Tampa, Fla.

Three Chimneys Farm and Besilu Stable's Dubai Sky collected his fourth straight victory and second straight stakes with an impressive win in the $550,000 Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes March 21 at Turfway Park.

Don't Leave Me rolled down the center of the track, past front-running favorites Sweet Success and Sharla Rae, and won the $150,000 Bourbonette Oaks March 21 at Turfway Park.

Joseph Shields Jr.'s homebred Classic Point, away since her victory last November in the Go For Wand Handicap (gr. III) in New York, returned to the races in fine form to post an upset in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes March 21 at Gulfstream Park.