Horse Racing News

Canadian Horse of the Year contender Pink Lloyd capped a remarkable 8-for-8 campaign in Woodbine stakes with a decisive score in near track-record time in Saturday's Grade 2, $197,050 Kennedy Road Stakes.

When the year began, trainer Tony Dutrow justly believed Mo Town was his derby horse. Turns out, he was right. It wasn't the Derby on the first Saturday in May, rather a derby on the last Saturday in November.

Brendan Walsh sent Multiplier to win the Illinois Derby here at Hawthorne this past spring, and on Saturday evening he won the Grade 3, $150,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup with Scuba.

He was still wearing his Breeders' Cup Classic morning training saddle towel on the track at 6:30 a.m. last Friday at Fair Grounds, but by now Gun Runner's connections have earned the right to train him in a Hawaiian grass skirt if they so choose.

The historic colors of Darby Dan Farm never had graced Del Mar until Friday, but they sure looked right at home in a familiar spot, a winner's circle, after Manitoulin held off favored Chicago Style to capture the Grade 2, $200,690 Hollywood Turf Cup.

The eventual top three finishers in the $500,000 Clark trailed their six opponents entering the backstretch of the 1 1/8-mile race.

A Pennsylvania state judge has granted stays to three trainers based at Parx racetrack near Philadelphia who had been suspended for failing to comply with subpoenas issued by the state's racing commission early this month, according to court filings.

Now safely tucked away at Del Mar over nine furlongs on grass, the Hollywood Derby brings to a close the three-beat Southern California series that exists in a parallel universe to all the mega-dollar dirt races for the national 3-year-old division.

Every trainer wants a Juddmonte horse. Juddmonte horses have names like Arrogate, Enable, and Frankel. Out West, Jack Carava's got himself a Juddmonte horse ... sort of.

Is luster off Grade 1 races late in the year?