Horse Racing News

Once upon a time, the Victoria Park Stakes was considered a prep for the Queen's Plate.

The speedy American shipper Get Stormy will put his five-race win streak on the line Sunday at Woodbine in the $300,000 King Edward, a Grade 2 turf stakes that has been shortened from its traditional distance of nine furlongs to a mile this year.

One of Alex Solis' favorite hiking spots is the Mount Wilson Trail, in the town of Sierra Madre -- just north of Santa Anita Park where Solis won five of his 16 career southern California riding titles.

For the first time, General Consensus will start in a stakes that does not include division leader Tuscan Evening.

Devil May Care may have found the company too tough and the distance too far when she finished 10th in the Kentucky Derby.

Oak Tree will run a meet at Santa Anita this fall under a tentative deal reached on Tuesday during a meeting of the California Horse Racing Board at Hollywood Park.

The Iowa Festival of Racing at Prairie Meadows has drawn strong fields for its six stakes, which will take place Friday and Saturday nights.

Three drivers have been taken to the hospital following a spill in the second race at Meadowlands Racetrack on Friday night. Six drivers were unseated in the accident.

The ease with which Golden Itiz won an optional claimer at Hollywood Park on a sleepy Wednesday in April has pushed him into the spotlight for Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Affirmed Handicap.

With every race, trainer Nick Zito's admiration for Jackson Bend grows.