Horse Racing News

Santa Anita Park has canceled live racing for Thursday, May 15, due to the effects of extremely dry conditions and temperatures that are expected to be more than 30 degrees above normal.

A solid, evenly matched field of nine, including five graded stakes winners, was entered for the $300,000 Pimlico Special Stakes at Pimlico Race Course May 16.

Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome arrived at Pimlico Race Course Monday at 3:12 p.m. EDT to continue his quest for an elusive Triple Crown sweep in Saturday's 139th Preakness Stakes.

Main Line Racing Stable's Joint Return, four-for-five with two stakes victories, seeks her first graded win in the $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Pimlico Race Course May 16.

Phipps Stable and Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey have cornered the market on the Grade 1, $400,000 Man o' War Stakes of late, with Point of Entry (2012), Boisterous (2013) and now Imagining prevailing in Sunday's renewal at Belmont Park.

After looking beat nearing the turn in Sunday's Grade 2, $250,000 Ruffian Stakes at Belmont Park, Fiftyshadesofhay rallied down the center of the track to take the one-mile contest by three parts of a length over Grace Hall and My Wandy's Girl.

Palace Malice, a prohibitive favorite at odds of 1-20, made easy work of his three opponents in the $142,500 Westchester Stakes May 11 at Belmont Park in his prep race for the Metropolitan Handicap.

Top Fortitude, overlooked by bettors at 30-1 after a poor 2014 debut a month earlier, outfought his challengers in the stretch May 10 to post a huge surprise at 30-1 in the $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

His development slowed by a lung infection, Tonalist showed he can be a major contender in the Belmont Stakes next month when he crushed the $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes May 10 on a sloppy track at Belmont Park.

Jockey Rafael Bejarano has been hospitalized after being stepped on by a trailing horse when his mount broke down in a race at Santa Anita Park May 10.