Horse Racing News

Malibu Pier shrugged off a threat from Lilly Fa Pootz to win Saturday's $150,000 Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita.

It looks like Havre de Grace is sitting on an outstanding season. In her first start since running third in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic in November, she rolled to a 3 1/4-length win over Blind Luck in the Grade 3, $150,000 Azeri at Oaklawn Park.

Starlight Partners and C.E. Glasscock's HILDA'S PASSION (Canadian Frontier) carried her speed to a facile victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Daniel M. Ryan's homebred QUANTUM MISS set nearly all the pace in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Cicada Stakes at Aqueduct and had just enough left to hold the late run of Coax Liberty to score by a half-length on the wire.

Favored Doubles Partner closed with a rush in the final yards to snatch victory by a neck over Rahystrada in the Grade 3, $125,000 Tampa Bay Stakes on the turf March 19 at Tampa Bay Downs.

ECLAIR DE LUNE will seek to find the winner's circle again in Saturday's $150,000 Santa Ana S. (Grade 2) over nine furlongs on the turf.

Champion BLIND LUCK (Pollard's Vision) was last seen in the winner's circle after taking the August 21 Alabama S. (Grade 1), but has contracted a serious case of seconditis since that 10-furlong contest.

A field of seven was drawn Wednesday for the Inside Information with Hilda's Passion set to carry high weight of 121 pounds, including regular rider Javier Castellano.

Ravi's Song has run well enough in two races this winter at Fair Grounds to have won a graded stakes. In her next start, she figures to get a chance to actually do so.

Jockey Eibar Coa, severely injured in a riding mishap following the conclusion of the sixth race at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 18, has regained significant movement in both his upper and lower body according to his agent Tito Fuentes.