Horse Racing News

Several weeks ago, executives at Breeders' Cup and several influential board members were ready to recommend that, starting in 2011, the Breeders' Cup year-end event be held at Santa Anita Park for the next five to 10 years.

everal days of warm sunshine have heralded spring's official arrival at 1:32 p.m. Saturday, with the rescheduled Grade 3 Cicada part of a stakes doubleheader along with the Kings Point Stakes.

Twenty years ago the San Luis Rey was worth twice as much and offered a Grade 1 credential. Now, with a purse of $150,000, it is clinging to its Grade 2 for dear life.

Unrivaled Belle appears to prefer dirt, a surface she returns to on Saturday when she heads an eight-horse field entered in the Grade 3, $150,000 Rampart Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico paid out $4.94 million to a single winner of its Poolpote, a pick six-type bet, on Monday.

Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. admitted to being nervous before he ran D' Funnybone as the even-money favorite in last month's Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Charles John "Chick" Lang, the longtime head of Pimlico Race Course who helped make the Preakness a must-watch for sports fans around the country, has died. He was 83.

Rule, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, will break from post 7 in a field of 11 3-year-olds entered for Saturday's $750,000 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.

Bambara, the Venezuelan filly who is nominated to the April 9 Apple Blossom Invitational at Oaklawn Park, will make her U.S. debut Saturday in Gulfstream's Rampart Stakes, trainer Pablo Andrade said Wednesday.

In a news release Tuesday, the Maryland Jockey Club announced the Grade 1 Pimlico Special and the Grade 2 Allaire duPont Distaff have been put on hiatus due to a purse shortage.