Horse Racing News

Dianne Carpenter, the only woman to saddle two starters in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 68.

Toby's Corner, upset winner of the Wood Memorial who was forced to miss the Kentucky Derby due to lameness in his right hind leg, was to begin walking under tack on Thursday at trainer Graham Motion's barn at the Fair Hill Training Center.

The trainer of the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes on April 14 at Keeneland Racecourse has filed an appeal of a complaint that the second-place finisher should not have been allowed to start.

Graham Motion has had a few things to do this week. Making raceday accommodations for family and friends. Dodging the raindrops that keep falling at his Fair Hill training base.

Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, will break from post 11 as the 2-1 morning line favorite for the $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course May 21.

Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro will not run in the Preakness.

Second in the Central Bank Ashland Stakes (Grade 1) last month, Wyomia is the 9-5 morning-line favorite for the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (Grade 2) May 20 at Pimlico Race Course.

Winning for the fourth time in six starts, Alternation ran to his strong route pedigree and nailed Jerome winner and lukewarm favorite Adios Charlie in the final strides of Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes for 3-year-olds.

For the rest of his career, Acclamation should run in every turf race possible at Hollywood Park.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and the mares Open Mind, Safely Kept, and Sky Beauty are the 2011 inductees into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, the Hall of Fame announced Friday.