Horse Racing News

Zenyatta worked six furlongs in 1:13.00 at Hollywood Park on Monday, moving closer to a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap there on June 13.

New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed legislation that would allow the New York Racing Association to borrow $25 million from a line of credit that is being offered to fund construction of a casino at the association's Aqueduct racetrack.

Belmont Stakes contenders Make Music for Me and Drosselmeyer posted workouts in preparation for the final leg of the Triple Crown on June 5.

Top jockey Julien Leparoux will be sidelined at least five more weeks with a spine injury suffered in a spill during a race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 14.

Monmouth Park got off to a rousing start on Saturday.

Two of the 10 horses expected to run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes here on June 5 put in half-mile workouts Saturday in New York.

Denise Boudrot, a pioneering female jockey with more than 1,000 victories and the first to win a major race meet title, died May 19 at her farm in Grafton, Vt., after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 57.

Queen of the Creek last started in an allowance race at Keeneland while Bay to Bay comes out of a the Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes there.

The California Horse Racing Board passed a motion on Thursday stating that Oak Tree Racing Association holds racing dates for five weeks this fall.

The New York-bred Nehantic Kat has rarely run a bad race when she has stepped into open company.