Horse Racing News

Martin S. Schwartz's Stacelita easily justified 1-2 favoritism in Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park, solidifying her status as the leading American-based contender for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Cape Blanco shipped across the pond from Ireland for third time since this summer to collect a grade I victory, barely outlasting a determined Dean's Kitten by a nose in the Grade 1, $490,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park Oct. 1.

hivananda Parbhoo's Giant Ryan made a successful return to his home state of New York when upsetting Saturday's Grade 1, $350,000 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont Park.

Aruna, the third choice on the morning line, and longshot Senada both scratched out of Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Flower Bowl Invitational.

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Trainer Bob Baffert hopes to move a step closer to winning his first Breeders' Cup Classic when he sends out grade I winners Coil and Game On Dude in the Grade 1, $250,000 Goodwood Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

After getting most of the summer off, late-running sensation Blind Luck will return to action in the Grade 1, $250,0000 Lady's Secret Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

Uncle Mo will face older horses for the first time and tangle with the red-hot Jackson Bend in the Grade 2, $200,000 Kelso Handicap, one of six graded stakes at Belmont Park Oct. 1.

Cape Blanco and Teaks North, both two-time Grade 1 winners on turf this year, headline a star-studded six-horse field for the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational that is part of the Oct. 1 stakes extravaganza at Belmont Park.

It drew only six, but the lucrative Grade 2 Cotillion Stakes from Parx Racing lured three of the top-ranked sophomore fillies in the nation -- each of them Grade 1 winners.