Horse Racing News

Stonestreet Stables' Atreides, winner of his first three starts by a combined 25-3/4 lengths, will make his first start around two turns in the $500,000 Indiana Derby for 3-year-olds the evening of Oct. 4 at Indiana Grand Race Course.

Trainer Tony Dutrow isn't sure if I Spent It will start in the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He's just focused on Saturday's $500,000 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park.

When Wonder Gal made her debut, she certainly lived up to her name.

The New York State Gaming Commission has levied suspensions and fines for trainers Doug O'Neill and Bruce Levine after horses in their barns tested positive in post-race tests for prohibited substances.

Better Lucky will be looking to defend her title as she squares off against eight fillies and mares going one mile on the Keeneland turf Oct. 4 in the $400,000 First Lady Stakes.

Martin Racing Stable's Marchman, winner of the Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland earlier this year, returns to the Lexington track for the $150,000 Woodford Presented by Keeneland Select Stakes Oct. 4.

Bourbon Lane Stable's Hashtag Bourbon, who broke his maiden in the Mountaineer Juvenile Stakes and then finished a troubled third in the Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Recent Grade 2 winners Stonetastic and R Free Roll top a solid field of fillies and mares entered in the Oct. 4 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes that is part of the opening weekend stakes extravaganza at Keeneland.

Morton Fink's two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan faces the stiffest challenge of his remarkable return from colic surgery when he takes on Seek Again and Silver Max among seven rivals in the $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland Oct. 4.

Mike McCarty's Lemon Drop Dream tops a field of eight sprinters in the 162nd running of the $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Oct. 3, on opening day of the Keeneland fall meet.