Horse Racing News

James Miller's Daisy Devine captured the Grade 3, $111,500 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs on Saturday in thrilling fashion. The Andrew McKeever trainee went gate-to-wire, holding off Julie's Love in the stretch to win by a head.

With first-hand knowledge of how the Aqueduct turf course drains following a period of wet weather, Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado was an indispensable ally for Juddmonte Farms' homebred Starformer in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Long Island Handicap.

Daisy Devine will be a strong favorite to win her third stakes of the year in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs, a nine-furlong grass test which has attracted a field of nine fillies and mares.

Maritimer, winner of the 2011 Coronation Futurity and champion Canadian 2-year-old, makes his first start since March 31 in Dubai in the $150,000 Autumn Stakes at Woodbine Nov. 10.

Hit It Rich, who last year won her first graded stakes in the Long Island Handicap, attempts to conclude her career with another victory in the race at Aqueduct Racetrack Nov. 10.

All samples collected from horses that ran in the Breeders' Cup World Championships Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita Park have been cleared by the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at UC Davis, the California Horse Racing Board said Nov. 6.

Multiple Grade 1 winner To Honor and Serve has been retired from racing to stand at Antony Beck's Gainesway Farm near Lexington. A fee will be announced later.

Bob Baffert got beat again in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic. Bill Mott settled for half of a repeat sweep in the weekend's two biggest races.

Morton Fink's Wise Dan squarely but himself in the mix for a variety of championships this year with a superior course-record victory in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park Nov. 3.

Trinniberg, overlooked at odds of 13-1, proved his doubters wrong when he posted his first grade I victory in the $1.5 million XpressBet Breeders' Cup Sprint by three-quarters of a length Nov. 3 at Santa Anita Park.