Horse Racing News

In a veritable lifetime on the racetrack, Valorie Lund got her biggest thrill when Atta Boy Roy won the Grade 2 Churchill Downs on the May 1 Kentucky Derby undercard.

Awesome Gem drew a prime post for the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap when entries for the 1 1/16-mile race were taken on Friday.

The great mare Azeri, whose accomplished career included four Eclipse Awards, including the title of 2002 Horse of the Year, was voted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in her first appearance on the ballot.

Tizaqueena has shown graded-stakes form on dry dirt and wet, and on turf courses at Fair Grounds, Churchill, and Arlington. Saturday, Tizaqueena will try to tack Polytrack success onto her r sum in the Arlington Matron Stakes.

Though Tar Heel Mom has run well from both on and off the pace, the majority of her seven victories have come when she's been able to make the early lead.

Quality Road will face seven challengers when he returns to the races for the first time in four months in Monday's Grade 1, $500,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.

The second phase of Tuscan Evening's 2010 campaign begins in Saturday's $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Next Wednesday, when 10 contenders are expected to enter the third leg of the Triple Crown, all will have taken circuitous routes to New York and a 1 .5-mile test devoid of this year's Derby winner Super Saver and Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky.

Trainer Howard Zucker is hoping that Well Monied can run to his expectations Saturday in the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park and everyone on hand can appreciate it.

Rachel Alexandra sped things up a bit with her third straight Monday morning workout at Churchill Downs, going five furlongs in 1:00.40.