Horse Racing News

After being graded stakes placed four times in her career, Barbara Hunter's homebred mare Snow Top Mountain finally notched her first graded stakes Feb. 11 on the turf at Gulfstream Park.

Starlight Stable's Thunder Moccasin remained perfect in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes, drawing off to an impressive 6 3/4-length score, and provided trainer Todd Pletcher with his third winner of the afternoon at Gulfstream Park.

Trainer Todd Pletcher recorded his 3000th victory Feb. 11 at Gulfstream Park when he saddled good-looking 3-year-old colt Spring Hill Farm to victory in the third race.

It was no surprise that bettors would flock to support the mutuel field, or "All Others", wagering interest during the opening hours of 2012's first of three pools of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Augustin Stable's Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club runner-up Ever So Lucky was scratched from Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

A broad-based group of Thoroughbred industry stakeholders announced Thursday the establishment of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA).

Silver Medallion has found a home on grass since arriving at Todd Pletcher's barn last fall, but he'll face the toughest test of his career in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap Feb. 11.

Sanagas was sold following his victory in the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup on November 19 and will be pointed toward the Melbourne Cup later this year by his new connections.

Ever So Lucky hopes to advance on the Kentucky Derby trail in Saturday's G2 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Tremendous field of 11 set for G1 Donn H. at Gulfstream Park