Horse Racing News

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.
All horses who are entered in the five Breeders' Cup races for juveniles in 2012 will be prohibited from using the diuretic Lasix on race day to treat bleeding in the lungs under a policy adopted by the Breeders' Cup on Thursday.
Four graded stakes winners, led by recent Brooklyn Handicap hero Birdrun, will challenge defending champion A.U. Miner in Saturday's $200,000 Greenwood Cup at Parx Racing.
A starting spot in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is at stake when a field of nine lines up for the Grade 2, $200,000 A Gleam Handicap at Hollywood Park July 16.
Trainer John Shirreffs has a deep team of 3-year-old turf fillies this summer in the stakes winner Star Billing and the improving Nereid.
 
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