Horse Racing News

Promise Me a Cat figures to get an ideal trip Saturday in the Grade 3, $500,000 Delta Downs Princess.

He is not exactly revealing trade secrets, but jockey Alonso Quinonez has a plan for how to ride Premier Pegasus in Saturday's $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes.

Already a stakes winner in Panama and Canada, Golden Moka looks to break through in the United States when he faces six rivals Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.

Five of the 11 fillies in the Mrs. Revere Stakes won their last races, including three in stakes, while three more starters exit a rugged edition of the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

Blue Laser's connections passed on the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and targeted Saturday's Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot.

Jaycito, the winner of the Norfolk Stakes at Hollywood Park in October and seventh in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6, was transferred from trainer Mike Mitchell to Bob Baffert earlier this week, the trainers said on Wednesday.

Zenyatta has been officially retired and her new home beginning next month will be Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., the farm announced Wednesday.

Garrett Gomez suffered "bad bruising," but nothing worse, to his ailing right shoulder, according to results from a magnetic resonance imaging test taken last Friday, said Ron Anderson, agent for the star jockey.

An adviser to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has advised that the state sell Monmouth Park and convert the Meadowlands into an offtrack betting facility.

The Santa Anita Derby has been enriched from $750,000 to $1 million for next year's running on April 9, part of an enhancement to the purse structure of Santa Anita's prep races to the Triple Crown, the track announced Tuesday.