Horse Racing News

Awesome Gem still has got it at 8. He rallied for a one-length win in the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on Monday, then withstood a claim of foul to nail down the fourth graded stakes win of a career that began in 2006.

Tizway has been looking for his career-defining win for the past three years. It came in decisive fashion on Memorial Day at Belmont Park, as he opened up in the stretch and rolled to a 2 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Metropolitan Handicap.

Phillips Racing Partnership homebred Winter Memories served notice May 30 with an emphatic score in the Grade 2 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park May 30.

Sassy Image made her win in the grade I Humana Distaff look easy earlier this month at Churchill Downs, but she was pushed to the limit by longshot Beat the Blues May 30 before prevailing by a neck in the Grade 3 Winning Colors.

The May 29 live racing program at Arlington Park was canceled following the second race when the jockeys chose not to ride, the track announced.

The stakes races Saturday at Arlington, the Arlington Matron and the Arlington Classic, were of the Grade 3 and listed variety, but the winner of each may be ready for bigger game.

As the only Grade 1 winner in the field, Hibaayeb was the class of the six fillies and mares entered in Saturday's $150,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes at Belmont Park.

Tizway and Tackleberry may have been out of their comfort zones in distance, circumference, and surface last month when they chased a million-dollar pot in the 1 1/8-mile Charles Town Classic run around three turns over a sloppy track.

The former turf expert Fifty Proof won his first stakes on Polytrack at Woodbine in Saturday's Grade 3, $171,900 Eclipse.

In an incredibly tight finish that nearly resulted in a triple dead-heat, Keertana was the narrowest of winners Saturday in the 74th running of the Grade 3, $111,200 Louisville Handicap at Churchill Downs.