Horse Racing News

A pick six carryover just shy of $100,000 awaits players on Thursday at Hollywood Park.

Goldikova was named the Cartier Racing Awards Horse of the Year on Tuesday, an honor emblematic of the best horse trained in Europe. The winner of five Group or Grade 1 races in 2010.

Harbinger is the world leader in the latest World Thoroughbred Rankings computed by national handicappers from all of the world's major racing nations.

Trainer David Pate has been suspended 180 days by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission after one of his horses, Point Destin, tested positive for a Class A medication.

Uncle Mo, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, will spend a month on Jimmy Crupi's New Castle Farm in Ocala. Fla., before joining trainer Todd Pletcher's south Florida string at the Palm Meadows training center, his connections announced on Monday.

Gourmet Dinner shipped out of Miami on Monday morning headed for Louisiana, where he will run in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Jackpot on Saturday.

George Strawbridge's 2008 champion grass mare Forever Together has retired to Stone Farm in Kentucky and will be bred to Smart Strike in 2011.

When the Kentucky Derby is run next May, it will have been 20 years since Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito won his first with Strike the Gold.

Larry Jones, who retired from training last November after reaching the pinnacle of the sport with Grade 1 winners Proud Spell, Hard Spun, Island Sand, and Kodiak Kowboy, plans to resume his training career when the Oaklawn Park meet opens in January.

Javier Castellano's appeal of his six-day suspension for careless riding in last Friday's Breeders' Cup Marathon was denied by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, but the jockey received a stay that will enable him to ride in Japan.