Horse Racing News by Steve Haskin

Several questions should be answered in the $500,000 Foxwoods Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park Oct. 5, mainly who are the potential superstars in the nine-horse field, if any?

The $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park Sept. 28 will provide racing fans with a couple of intriguing angles.

Will Take Charge and Moreno, who finished one-two, respectively, in the Midsummer Derby, will lock horns once again in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing Sept. 21.

The $350,000 Garden City Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park Sept. 14 offers bettors an interesting dilemma.

Phipps Stable's Boisterous is looking to get back to the winner's circle in the Bowling Green Handicap at Belmont Park Sept. 7 following a rare dismal performance in the Sword Dancer Stakes Aug. 17.

Ahmed Zayat hopes to make an early trip to the winner's circle after the Forego Stakes Aug. 31, just one race before Paynter continues on his comeback in the featured Woodward at Saratoga Race Course.

Forty Tales, winner of three straight graded stakes, will have his work cut out for him just trying to make his way through all the traffic in the $500,000 Foxwoods King's Bishop Stakes Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Zayat Stables' Paynter worked seven furlongs in 1:25 ⅗ at Del Mar Aug. 20 in preparation for his cross-country trip to Saratoga, where he will face a number of the nation's top older horses in the Aug. 31 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Calumet Farm's Oxbow, winner of this year's Preakness Stakes, likely will not run again in 2013, according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

Ten domestic and three European-based 3-year-olds comprise a field of 13 for the $500,000 Secretariat Stakes Aug. 17 on the turf course at Arlington Park, with Jack Milton established as the 3-1 morning line favorite.