Horse Racing News on September 28, 2011

After getting most of the summer off, late-running sensation Blind Luck will return to action in the Grade 1, $250,0000 Lady's Secret Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

Uncle Mo will face older horses for the first time and tangle with the red-hot Jackson Bend in the Grade 2, $200,000 Kelso Handicap, one of six graded stakes at Belmont Park Oct. 1.

Cape Blanco and Teaks North, both two-time Grade 1 winners on turf this year, headline a star-studded six-horse field for the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational that is part of the Oct. 1 stakes extravaganza at Belmont Park.

It drew only six, but the lucrative Grade 2 Cotillion Stakes from Parx Racing lured three of the top-ranked sophomore fillies in the nation -- each of them Grade 1 winners.

So while Scooter Dickey would like his 5-year-old horse to improve upon runner-up finishes in both the Whitney Handicap and Woodward Stakes at Saratoga when he runs in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, a victory is not paramount.

Preakness winner Shackleford will cut back to 1 1/16 miles in Saturday's Grade 2 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park in his final prep for the Breeders' Cup.