Horse Racing News

Julien Leparoux and Kent Desormeaux have been suspended three racing days apiece for their roles in the disqualifications of their mounts in the Clark Handicap on Friday at Churchill Downs.

Victor's Cry, returning to the scene of his biggest win, rallied from ninth to first in the final half-mile of the $250,000 Citation Handicap to take the Grade 2 race for older turf horses on Saturday at Hollywood Park.

Rare is the horse who captures a Grade 2 race to lose its maiden condition, but that's what Santiva did Saturday in emerging best in a thrilling three-horse finish to capture the $165,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes under the lights at Churchill Downs.

Overcoming a four-wide trip under Terry Thompson, No Such Word joined the leaders at the three-eighths pole, then ran away from Awesome Maria in the final three-sixteenths of a mile to win the $250,000 Gazelle Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths.

Five minutes before the horses loaded into the starting gate for Saturday's Grade 2 Remsen Stakes, trainer Bill Mott, standing in the Aqueduct paddock, took a deep breath and shrugged his shoulders.

When trainer Barclay Tagg talked owner Charles Fipke out of running Jersey Town in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, it was with the idea that the Grade 1 Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile would come up an easier spot.

Eight weeks after she inherited the lead and held on to finish third in the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Hollywood Park, Gypsy's Warning was the beneficiary of a perfect trip in Friday's $250,000 Matriarch Stakes.

A very roughly-run 136th running of the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs resulted in two disqualifications for separate incidents, with Giant Oak being awarded victory after Successful Dan was deemed guilty of interference in the stretch.

Spacy Tracy continued her transformation from a solid turf horse to perhaps an even better dirt horse with a victory over Our Khrysty in Friday's Grade 2, $150,000 Top Flight Handicap at Aqueduct. It was 1 1/4 lengths back to pacesetter Qualia in third.

Court Vision is the only starter in Saturday's $250,000 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park who ran in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs earlier this month.