Horse Racing News

Trainer Anthony Dutrow seems to have the $400,000 Delaware Oaks surrounded. Dutrow conditions three of the seven 3-year-old fillies in the field for the 1 1/16-mile test July 14 at Delaware Park, including the highweight Grace Hall.

Dual Grade 1 winner Switch, seeking her first victory of 2012, carries top weight of 122 pounds in the $200,000 A Gleam Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park July 14.

Jockey Robby Albarado was found guilty of fourth-degree assault July 12 in Jefferson District Court after a jury heard evidence about an incident involving a former girlfriend, Carolina Martinez.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Caleb's Posse has been retired after exiting the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap with an injury and will enter stud in 2013 at Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm, it was announced Thursday.

In 53 runnings, the Grade 1 Man o' War has been won by the same trainer in consecutive years six times, most recently by Christophe Clement in 2009 and 2010 with Gio Ponti.

Santa Anita Park has taken the unusual step of renaming 14 stakes, including six Grade 1 events, for the 2012 autumn meet that begins Sept. 28.

When Union Rags dropped out of the July 29 Haskell Invitational due to a suspensory injury, it left the door open for a possible Bodemeister -- Hansen speed slugfest to determine the top 3-year-old in training.

Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O'Neill said he will drop his appeal of a 45-day suspension in California stemming from a carbon dioxide overage in one of his horses in 2010 and will serve the suspension from Aug. 19-Sept. 27.

Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another was ailing well before he was retired from racing with a tendon injury the day ahead of his bid to win the Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown champion in 34 years.

Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags has a minor ligament injury in his left front leg and will be sidelined for the rest of the year.