Horse Racing News

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert won his first spring/summer meet title at Hollywood Park with 36 wins at the just-concluded stand.

Majestic City is unbeaten in three starts and is proving to be much more than a 2-year-old speedball.

It may not be the worst four-letter word used to describe a racehorse, but trainer A.C. Avila and jockey Chantal Sutherland said the same thing about Imponente Purse in separate conversations after Sunday's $100,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park.

The winning superfecta in the Grade 2 A Gleam Handicap at Hollywood Park on Saturday was incorrectly posted on the toteboard, and the wrong numbers were paid out to bettors for approximately two minutes before racing officials caught the mistake.

Irish Gypsy won her third consecutive stakes, and first at the graded level, in dramatic style in Saturday's $200,000 A Gleam Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Cambina re-gathered herself and surged between horses in the final strides to finish in a dead-heat for the win with pacesetting Nereid in a spectacular finish to the Grade 1, $250,000 American Oaks at Hollywood Park July 16 .

Air Support, coming from the clouds, surged past 20-1 shot Casino Host in deep stretch to capture the Grade 3, $600,000 Virginia Derby by a neck over the closing Banned on the turf at Colonial Downs July 16.

Racing in next-to-last position to the top of the stretch, Right One circled widest and was along in the final strides to nip pacesetter Yield Bogey by a desperate head in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Jaipur Stakes.

For the second straight year, A. U. Miner earned an automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Marathon at Churchill Downs by winning the Greenwood Cup Stakes July 16 at Parx Racing.

Blind Luck and Havre de Grace put on the show racing fans hoped for, with Blind Luck edging her arch-rival by a nose in the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap.