Horse Racing News

When Twirling Candy goes to the post Saturday in the Grade 2, $200,000 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita, he once again will be a short price, a familiar spot for most of his career.

Blind Luck, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2010, will be ridden by leading jockey Rafael Bejarano in the $150,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 13, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

The $100,000 Thunder Road Handicap on turf at Santa Anita on Saturday will determine Victor's Cry's March itinerary.

Oaklawn Park announced it has canceled its Thursday, Feb. 3, live racing program because of weather, but will remain open for simulcast racing and gaming.

Little Mike and Twilight Meteor each wired their respective fields at big odds last out, but neither figures to be favored for the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (Grade 1) Feb. 5 when a well-balanced lineup of eight goes to post.

How strong is the field for the Donn Handicap? Included among the nine starters is a horse that enters off a win in a Breeders' Cup race, another that bagged the Clark Handicap last out, and a third that set a track record in his season debut.

Undefeated Turbulent Descent, one of the leading 2-year-old fillies in the nation last year, will race on dirt for the first time in the Grade 1, $250,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita Feb. 5.

Jockey Eibar Coa plans to ride at Gulfstream Park on Wednesday after spending Monday in a South Florida jail cell on charges of domestic battery, his agent, Tito Fuentes, said on Tuesday.

Horse owners in New York would pay a 2.75-percent tax on purse earnings under a plan proposed by the state's new governor, Andrew Cuomo, to raise money for the funding of the state's racing commission.

Pimlico Race Course will again offer infield patrons at the Preakness Stakes a $20 beer mug that can be refilled unlimited times, the company said on Tuesday when announcing that infield tickets had gone on sale.