Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersch

Midday, as expected, will make her third Breeders' Cup appearance in the BC Turf rather than the Filly and Mare Turf, the race she won in 2009 and in which she finished second here last year.

It was a Polytrack race at Keeneland, the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes, that really put General Quarters's name out to the racing public for the first time.

Tajaaweed has been disqualified from his first-place finish in the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap on July 9 because a laboratory test revealed the presence of the bronchodilator clenbuterol in a urine sample.

A new racing season showcased the same old Goldikova, who won her 2011 debut Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, taking the Prix d'Ispahan by a neck over Cirrus des Aigles.

Trainer Todd Pletcher won a Kentucky Derby prep race Saturday. It just wasn't the one everyone expected.

Ravi's Song has run well enough in two races this winter at Fair Grounds to have won a graded stakes. In her next start, she figures to get a chance to actually do so.