Horse Racing News by Mike Welsch

Ancient Rome made his stakes debut a winning one, surging from between horses in the final 40 yards under jockey Joe Rocco Jr. to outfinish For Oby by a nose to capture the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes.

The 2011 Calder racing season ends one month earlier than usual but will go out with a bang as Friday's 10-race closing-day program features a pair of Grade 3 stakes on the grass, the $150,000 La Prevoyante and $100,000 Tropical Turf handicaps.

Any doubt how Uncle Mo might have bounced out of his relatively disappointing final work for this year's Breeders' Cup Classic on Sunday morning were erased the moment he stepped out onto the racetrack.

Trainer Phil Gleaves has had a year to think about Mad Flatter's one-sided win over his odds-on Mambo Meister in the 2010 Spend A Buck.

Turallure could not make up ground after Sidney's Candy's was allowed to get away with a snail-like pace in the Fourstardave Handicap earlier in the meet.

Ask the Moon, the front-running upset winner of the Grade 1 Ruffian Invitational here July 31, is entered back for Sunday's Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign Invitational going 1 1/4 miles.

Get Stormy swept the two major turf stakes for males, the Grade 2 Fourstardave and Bernard Baruch handicaps, during the 2010 Saratoga meeting.

Saturday is Travers day at Saratoga, but even a race as prestigious as the Travers may have to share some of the spotlight on this particular Saturday with the Grade 1 King's Bishop.

As expected, a field of 10 was entered Wednesday for Saturday's 142nd running of the $1 million Travers, the cornerstone event of the Saratoga season which this year is likely to decide leadership in the 3-year-old division.

Four people have been arrested by the South Florida Violent Crimes Task Force in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brinks security guard at Calder Racecourse and Casino on Sunday afternoon, the FBI announced Monday.