Horse Racing News

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.

American Pharoah will return to Oaklawn Park for the $1 million Arkansas Derby April 11, owner Ahmed Zayat said March 20.

Based on weather data which forecasted significant, accumulating snowfall on Friday, March 20, the New York Racing Association has cancelled live racing for that day at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The $150,000 Pure Romance Bourbonette Stakes March 21 at Turfway Park is a 100-proof handicapping challenge. The mile race on Polytrack has drawn a full field of 12 with no clear-cut choice, but plenty of intriguing angles.

WinStar Farm's homebred Royal Son, who already has a solid victory on Turfway Park's Polytrack surface, drew the rail and most likely will be favored to capture the $550,000 Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes March 21 at the Kentucky racetrack.

It was a novel idea to nominate red-hot turf specialist Finnegans Wake to take on Shared Belief in the Santa Anita Handicap March 4, but as enticing as it was, trainer Peter Miller decided not to mess with a good thing.

The Jockeys' Guild has reached an agreement with Parx Racing, resolving their dispute in a manner that will not alter the current on-track accident policy at the Pennsylvania track.

Merry Meadow, riding a three-race stakes winning streak will face six opponents in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes March 21 at Gulfstream Park.

Arnold Zetcher's Firing Line has played the underdog for some time.