Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

Six horses were entered in the $125,000 Arlington Sprint here Saturday, and Euroears isn't coming, so just five remain, and two appear to stand out. But for a two-horse race, the Arlington Sprint isn't bad.

Eight of the nine horses entered in the Cornhusker Handicap have come from Texas and Illinois, from Florida and California.

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.

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.

Win the Kentucky Derby, and you don't get to pick the next start for your horse.

Last year, at age 2, Hot Dixie Chick won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga. Buckleupbuttercup? She won a $30,000 maiden-claimer.

Informed Decision won the Vinery Madison Stakes at Keeneland in her 2009 debut, and three weeks later won the Humana Distaff Handicap on Derby Day.

If a swift pace may be the undoing of front-runners in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, the same could happen to 3-year-old grass horses in the Grade 2, $175,000 American Turf Stakes on Friday.

Turned out Steve Asmussen had little impact on the Kentucky Derby trail in 2010, which is not to say that Asmussen won't have a say in the proceedings on Kentucky Derby Day.

Two-time Derby winner Nick Zito moved a step closer to getting two horses into this year's race, with Eskendereya's defection bumping Jackson Bend one spot closer to the Derby starting gate.