Horse Racing News

Channel Lady made every call a winning won as she cruised to victory in wire-to-wire fashion in the $150,000 Suwannee River Stakes for older fillies and mares at Gulfstream Park Feb. 9.

Saturday's Grade 1, $300,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap was billed as a clash of titans, and so it proved when Phipps Stables' homebred Point of Entry engaged 2011 Kentucky Derby-winning champion Animal Kingdom in a rousing stretch duel.

It's not every day you see a 7-year-old horse and an 8-year-old horse competing in a Grade 1 stakes. In fact, it's rare to see accomplished horses that age running anywhere in this era of horses being rushed off to stud.

Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom will start for the first time since his thrilling runner-up finish in the Nov. 3 Breeders' Cup Mile when he takes on top turf contender Point of Entry and four others in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap

Champion Shanghai Bobby (#17) and rising star Violence (#21) are expected to vie for the role of individual favorite, but Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia believes the "All Others" ...

Alain and Gerard Wertheimer's homebred champion Goldikova, the sole three-time Breeders' Cup winner, produced her first foal, a colt by leading sire Galileo, Sunday, Feb. 3, at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, according to Coolmore's Facebook page.

Joseph Bucci's Honorable Dillon made his stakes debut a winning one with a workmanlike score under Joe Rocco Jr. in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson at Gulfstream Park.

A legislative committee in New Mexico has unanimously approved a study to determine the feasibility of locating a slaughter facility in the state for purposes of processing horse meat for human consumption.

Game On Dude took some heat for six furlongs, then sped away in the stretch to take the $196,000 San Antonio Stakes as expected Feb. 3 for his sixth win in seven tries at Santa Anita Park.

The sky was the limit Feb. 2 at Tampa Bay Downs, with Falling Sky and Dynamic Sky finishing 1-2 in the $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes.