Horse Racing News

Joshua Tree, Mores Wells and Redwood, who served up a climactic three-way photo in the Grade 1 Canadian International a year ago, are among a record 16-strong field lined up for Sunday's $1.5 million renewal at Woodbine.

Trainer Phil Gleaves has had a year to think about Mad Flatter's one-sided win over his odds-on Mambo Meister in the 2010 Spend A Buck.

A full field of 10 state-bred geldings, including past race winners Sea Rescue, Russell Road, and Ghostly Thunder, are set for the featured $500,000 West Virginia Breeders' Classic.

Rick Dutrow Jr., who had his license revoked and was barred from racing in New York for 10 years, won't be allowed to race in California either.

Somali Lemonade wowed a drizzled Keeneland crowd of 8,608 with a sensational late run Thursday in winning the Jessamine Stakes, giving trainer Michael Matz a 2-year-old filly for the Breeders' Cup to go along with his BC Juvenile favorite, Union Rags.

A. U. Miner, who earned a second automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Marathon by virtue of winning the Greenwood Cup July 16 at Parx Racing, has been disqualified from the first-place purse earned in that victory as a result of a positive drug finding.

Grade 1 winners Winter Memories and Summer Soiree will have their first meeting on Saturday when the pair line up as part of an eight-filly field in the Grade 1 , $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.

Midnight Interlude, the unluckiest of losers in two starts on the turf at Del Mar this summer, heads a field of 14 entered in the $150,000 Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita Oct. 15.

Willcox Inn, who captured the first two legs of Arlington's Mid-America Triple over the summer, will seek to add to his trophy case in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Hawthorne Derby.

The once-beaten Unbridled Humor will try to make it two Grade 3 wins in a row when she lines up Saturday for the $100,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park, a 1 1/16-mile test over the Widener turf.