Horse Racing News

Favored Currency Swap handled sloppy conditions at rainy Saratoga better than any of his nine juvenile rivals in the Grade1, $250,000 Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes edging a persistent Trinniberg on closing day of the 2011 season Sept. 5.

Del Mar's business has been so far above projections this summer that the track announced on Monday it would pay an additional $1 million in purses, a record underpayment.

Shipping to Southern California for the first time, the well-traveled Banned outfought Midnight Interlude by a nose in a taut finish to the Grade 2, $250,000 Del Mar Derby on the turf Sept. 4.

Simply Business was all business, arriving in the final stride to close the deal upsetting the $1 million Metro Pace, the continent's richest freshman pace, on Saturday night at Mohawk Racetrack in Campbelville, Ontario.

Untried Grace Hall won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes like a true professional Sept. 4, stalking the leaders into the stretch and sweeping past favored Judy the Beauty to handily win the $250,000 event at Saratoga.

Havre de Grace came out of her victory over males in Saturday's Grade 1 Woodward Stakes in good order and will more than likely make her next start in the Beldame Stakes against females on Oct. 1 at Belmont Park, trainer Larry Jones said Sunday.

Quiet Giant spent the winter winning minor stakes over the inner-track at Aqueduct. On Saturday, she took a major leap forward with a decisive victory in the Grade 2, $252,500 Molly Pitcher Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.

The 4-year-old gelding Mister Marti Gras has gotten caught up in all kinds of intrigue during late summer 2011.

Animal Kingdom, this year's Kentucky Derby winner, has been given the green light to resume training and will be pointed toward the Dubai World Cup next spring, his ownership group, Team Valor International, announced on Saturday in a press release.

Jerry Hollendorfer became only the fourth Thoroughbred trainer to win 6,000 races when Just Tappin It won the sixth race on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields, a $4,000 claiming race.