Horse Racing News

Preakness winner Shackleford has been sent to WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., for a two-week break before gearing back up for a run in the $1 million Haskell Invitational on July 31 at Monmouth Park, said trainer Dale Romans.

Trainer Todd Pletcher entered three horses in Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap at Belmont Park including the enigmatic Life At Ten, who won this race last year.

Al Stall Jr. won the Stephen Foster Handicap last year with Blame, but the 49-year-old trainer refrains from making unfair comparisons when it comes to Apart, the colt he will run Saturday in the Foster.

Under a relentless drive by Frankie Dettori, Godolphin's Rewilding overhauled So You Think within the shadow of the wire to claim a neck victory in the Group 1, $655,660 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot June 15.

Jockey Rajiv Maragh on Sunday will begin serving a seven-day suspension for a careless riding infraction for the incident at the start of last Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

It was billed as the headline event of the Royal Ascot meeting, and it did not disappoint, as Canford Cliffs outdueled defending champion Goldikova to capture the $406,928 Queen Anne Stakes in the opening race at Royal Ascot June 14.

The Breeders' Cup announced Tuesday that a new race, the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint, has been added to the Breeders' Cup World Championships beginning this year at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

John Velazquez said he believes that jockey Rajiv Maragh was careless in his handling of Isn't He Perfect shortly after the start of Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

So far, it seems the 3-year-old filly Sarah's Secret can do anything.

Fox Hill Farms Inc.'s Havre de Grace tracked just behind and to the inside of early leader Sarah's Song in Saturday's Obeah at Delaware Park, took over rounding the turn and pulled away under her own power to romp by 2 1/4 lengths.