Horse Racing News

A pair of leading three-year-olds from last season, Caleb's Posse and It's Tricky, will make their respective 2012 debuts Saturday at Aqueduct in the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap and the Grade 2, $200,000 Top Flight Handicap.

Little Mike goes for his fifth consecutive win when he attempts to defend his title in the $150,000 Canadian Turf Stakes over the Gulfstream Park turf course he favors March 3.

With defending champion Game On Dude skipping the Santa Anita Handicap, Ultimate Eagle leads a field of 13 in the $750,000 event March 3.

Juvenile colt champion Hansen, who suffered his first career defeat in the Grade 3 Holy Bull on January 29, will attempt to get back on the winning track in Saturday's Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham at Aqueduct.

Game On Dude will not defend his title in Saturday's $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap and will make his next start in the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 31, trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday.

X-rays taken Tuesday morning have revealed that Algorithms, undefeated winner of the Grade 3 Holy Bull, has a fractured splint in his right front leg that will have to be surgically removed, his connections announced in a statement.

Two-time Eclipse Award winning jockey Ramon Dominguez has been selected as the 63rd winner of the prestigious Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, preparing for her expected 2012 bow in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes March 17 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, breezed a bullet five furlongs in 59 seconds flat over the track Feb. 26.

Trainer Roger Attfield and William Werner's Simmard would not be denied in Sunday's Grade 2, $150,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Union Rags made a smashing return to action and solidified his status as the early favorite for the 138th Kentucky Derby by romping to victory Sunday in the 68th running of the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes.