Horse Racing News

A determined Laughing refused to relinquish the lead in the $588,000 Diana Stakes July 27 over the inner turf course at Saratoga Race Course, leading all the way for her first Grade 1 victory in a terrific finish.

Multiple Grade 2 winner Mucho Macho Man, runner-up in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Classic, completed his serious preparations for the $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap.

Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez became the new all-time leading rider at Saratoga Race Course July 27, when he rode his 694th winner in the fourth race on the card.

Richlyn Farm's homebred Lighthouse Bay upset the $300,000 Prioress Stakes at Saratoga Race Course July 27, winning at odds of 21-1 while 2-5 favorite Kauai Katie failed to fire.

Mired in a yearlong slump since moving to the Doug O'Neill barn from Bob Baffert, Richard's Kid snapped out of it with a repeat victory in the $100,000 Cougar II Handicap July 26 at Del Mar.

His foray into the 2013 Triple Crown season behind him, Goldencents gets back to work in the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes, a six-furlong sprint at Del Mar in which he will face older horses for the first time.

Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow drew post 5 and was installed as the 2-1 second choice for the $1 million William Hill Haskell Invitational to be run July 28 at Monmouth Park.

The protagonists in Saturday's Grade 1, $600,000 Diana are well known, mostly to each other.

Stonestreet Stables' Kauai Katie has not run at Saratoga Race Course since winning the Adirondack Stakes as a 2-year-old -- but she's 2-for-2 at the upstate oval, having broken her maiden at first asking there by 12 lengths.

There's Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice … and then there's everyone else.