Horse Racing News

New Year's Day, who upset favored Havana in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile, has been retired after sustaining an injury and will enter stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington.

Grade I winner Sweet Lulu makes her first start since a fifth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint as the likely choice in the $300,000 La Brea Stakes opening day Dec. 26 at Santa Anita Park.

Hillside turf specialists Chips All In and Unbridled's Note head a competitive field of eight in the $100,000 Daytona Stakes Dec. 28 at Santa Anita Park.

Fans crowded into Betfair Hollywood Park for the last time Sunday.

Trainer Chad Brown will saddle two promising juveniles in Pleuven, a two-time stakes winner in France making his U.S. debut, and impressive first-out winner Request in the $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park.

Flashback, favored in each of his five career starts, figures to be the choice again when he runs in the Malibu Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita Park on opening day of the winter meet Dec. 26.

Undefeated Shared Belief, runaway winner of the CashCall Futurity Dec. 14, is likely to make two starts this spring prior to an anticipated start in the Kentucky Derby.

In the end, a good racehorse gives his connections a feeling of confidence, of daring.

Allowed to trail the field into the far turn, Lucayan charged to victory over favored Temeraine in the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup Dec. 14 for his first win since the 2012 French Two Thousand Guineas.

Jerry Hollendorfer trained the top three finishers in the $150,000 Native Diver Handicap Dec. 14 at Betfair Hollywood Park, including winner Blueskiesnrainbows, who blasted out of the starting gate in a front-running tour de force.