Horse Racing News

A large and growing number of prominent Thoroughbred owners and trainers have voluntarily pledged to make veterinary records of their horses competing in graded stakes races in the United States and Canada available to the public.

Keeneland will play host to the final race in the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" series when 11 sophomores line up in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Lexington.

Midnight Hawk has earned enough points in the "Road to Kentucky Derby" series to compete in the May 3 classic at Churchill Downs, but any potential trip the colt makes to Louisville will involve a pit stop in Chicago on Saturday for the Grade 3, $500,000

At least one regulator investigating violations alleged in a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals video posted last month involving the stable of trainer Steve Asmussen expects the inquiry to take at least several months

After recording his third career win in the Santa Anita H., Game On Dude will invade West Virginia for a title defense in Saturday's Grade 2, $1.5 million Charles Town Classic.

Kauai Katie, unraced since finishing sixth in the Prioress in July, will return to the races on Saturday when she faces an evenly matched field of filly and mare sprinters in Aqueduct's Grade 2, $200,000 Distaff Handicap at six furlongs.

Florida Derby winner Constitution will miss the Kentucky Derby and the other two Triple Crown races after a hairline fracture in his front right cannon bone was discovered April 14.

The chairman of The Jockey Club April 14 called for public release of the veterinary records of all horses entered in this year's Triple Crown races.

Tom Mansor and Tachycardia Stables' Big Macher just missed in San Carlos at Santa Anita Park, and on Saturday refused to find himself in that position again when recording a game nose victory over 7-5 favorite Wild Dude in the Potrero Grande.

Triple B Farms' Tribal Spy pulled off the upset by a head in her graded stakes debut in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,500 Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita Park.