Horse Racing News

Thanks to the miracle of modern science, the big horse in trainer Todd Beattie's barn is ready to resume racing for the first time since the fall of 2009.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday approved a settlement with John Velazquez that will require the jockey to pay a $10,000 fine on charges lodged last month related to the Life At Ten incident at the Breeders' Cup last year.

Uncle Mo arrived at his Belmont Park home at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday and two hours later was assigned post 5 for his engagement in Saturday's $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, where he will face nine opponents.

Team Valor International's Pluck, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf last November, heads a field of 10 three-year-olds in Friday's 23rd running of the $100,000, Grade 3 Transylvania, the opening-day feature of Keeneland's 15-day spring meeting.

Repole Stable's unbeaten champion Uncle Mo, who has yet to be challenged in his four career races, was bet down to 3-1 favoritism in the final betting pool of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

A 5-year-old gelding, Amazombie won his first graded stakes on dirt in Sunday's $150,000 Potrero Grande Stakes at Santa Anita.

Trainer Nick Zito and owner Robert LaPenta made it back-to-back victories in the Florida Derby when Dialed In, under Julien Leparoux, rallied from last to nip 60-1 pacesetter Shackleford by a short head.

S.S. Stone won his fourth consecutive race of the meet when he persevered past Colizeo in upper stretch and then held off Jackson Bend to take the Grade 3, $100,000 Skip Away Stakes by two lengths at Gulfstream Park.

Speedster Little Mike played the bully once again on the Gulfstream Park turf, tallying in the $100,000 Emirates Airlines Appleton Stakes April 3 for his third Grade 3 win of the meet.

E. Paul Robsham Stables' homebred Travelin Man made his move to the lead at the top of the stretch and drew clear to a comfortable two-length victory in Sunday's Grade 2 Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.