Horse Racing News on February 11, 2012

Slim Shadey springs upset in G2 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita

Get Stormy, making his first start since he was eased out of the TVG Breeders' Cup Mile last fall, led throughout in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap Feb. 11 for his third Grade 1 win.

Stuart Janney III's homebred Hymn Book stamped himself as a horse to watch in the handicap ranks this season with a minor upset of Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap.

After being graded stakes placed four times in her career, Barbara Hunter's homebred mare Snow Top Mountain finally notched her first graded stakes Feb. 11 on the turf at Gulfstream Park.

Starlight Stable's Thunder Moccasin remained perfect in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes, drawing off to an impressive 6 3/4-length score, and provided trainer Todd Pletcher with his third winner of the afternoon at Gulfstream Park.

Trainer Todd Pletcher recorded his 3000th victory Feb. 11 at Gulfstream Park when he saddled good-looking 3-year-old colt Spring Hill Farm to victory in the third race.

It was no surprise that bettors would flock to support the mutuel field, or "All Others", wagering interest during the opening hours of 2012's first of three pools of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Augustin Stable's Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club runner-up Ever So Lucky was scratched from Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park.