Horse Racing News

Alpha Delta Stables' Sky Girl was much the best as she took down her first stakes in Saturday's Grade 3, $110,000 Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs as the 4-5 favorite and returned $3.80 to her backers for the win.

Turtle Bird Stable's Cluster of Stars made it six-for-six in her career when wiring Belmont Park's Grade 2, $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap.

Willis D. Horton's Will Take Charge has long been referred to by racing pundits as a horse who makes one powerful run, and on Sept. 21 that run landed him in the Parx Racing winner's circle with a 2 1/4-length victory in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby.

Shanghai Bobby, the champion 2-year-old male of 2012, made his first start off nearly a six-month layoff a winning one Sept. 20 at Belmont Park.

Susan Wantz's Dance to Bristol has won seven straight races, five of them stakes, the last three graded -- including her most recent outing, victory by a head over Book Review in the Aug. 23 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Rosie Napravnik, fifth-leading jockey in North America by earnings in 2013, rode five winners Sept. 18 on the 13-race card at Kentucky Downs to emerge as the leading rider at the all-turf meet in Franklin, Ky.

Shanghai Bobby, 2012 champion 2-year-old male, will make his first start in more than five months when he competes in the $100,000 Aljamin overnight stakes Sept. 20 at Belmont Park.

Will Take Charge and Moreno, who finished one-two, respectively, in the Midsummer Derby, will lock horns once again in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing Sept. 21.

After knocking on the door in four stakes starts since her arrival from her native France, Minakshi secured the first stakes victory of her career Sept. 15 in the $295,952 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine.

Forte Dei Marmi completed his climb to the top of the stakes ladder Sept. 15 with a victory in the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes Presented by Vtech at Woodbine, the first Grade 1 score for the veteran turf runner.