Horse Racing News by Tom LaMarra

A New York task force has recommended a percentage of revenue from video lottery terminals and purse accounts go toward retraining and retirement programs for racehorses in the state.

This year's Breeders' Cup may be a memory, but no fewer than five horses that competed in the 2011 World Championships are back at Churchill Downs for the Grade 1, $500,000 Clark Handicap Nov. 25.

The $400,000 stakes is a "Win and You're In" race for the TVG Breeders' Cup Mile Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.

Quiet Giant, off a strong victory at Monmouth Park a month ago, looms a tough customer in the Sept. 3 Hill 'n' Dale Molly Pitcher Stakes (Grade 2), but the race lured a solid field of nine.

The New York Racing Association, which was unhappy Breeders' Cup chose Santa Anita Park over Belmont Park to host the 2012 World Championships, already is in discussions with the organization to be the 2013 host of the event.

Phillips Racing Partnership homebred Winter Memories served notice May 30 with an emphatic score in the Grade 2 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park May 30.

In an announcement that figures to meet with disagreement with some horsemen's groups, the outgoing and incoming leaders of the Association of Racing Commissioners International have called for a five-year phase-out of equine medication in horse racing.

Luis Olivares' Tackleberry will seek his fifth stakes victory in six starts when he returns to face seven foes in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap (Grade 2) at one mile March 12.

Breeders' Cup president and chief executive officer Greg Avioli has resigned to take a new position with a racing and gaming company, Breeders' Cup announced March 4.

Robert Yagos' Archarcharch finished first in a scramble in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park Feb. 21 to earn his first graded-stakes victory and move forward on the Triple Crown trail.