Horse Racing News

Rosie Napravnik, fifth-leading jockey in North America by earnings in 2013, rode five winners Sept. 18 on the 13-race card at Kentucky Downs to emerge as the leading rider at the all-turf meet in Franklin, Ky.

Shanghai Bobby, 2012 champion 2-year-old male, will make his first start in more than five months when he competes in the $100,000 Aljamin overnight stakes Sept. 20 at Belmont Park.

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.

After knocking on the door in four stakes starts since her arrival from her native France, Minakshi secured the first stakes victory of her career Sept. 15 in the $295,952 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine.

Forte Dei Marmi completed his climb to the top of the stakes ladder Sept. 15 with a victory in the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes Presented by Vtech at Woodbine, the first Grade 1 score for the veteran turf runner.

Wise Dan became the first two-time winner of the Ricoh Woodbine Mile when he romped to victory Sept. 15 in track-record time over the Toronto track's turf course as the shortest-priced favorite in the race's 17 renewals.

My Conquestadory, an unraced juvenile filly facing eight colts and geldings in the Grade 2, $205,544 Summer

Hit the Board Stables' I'm Already Sexy sped to the early lead and never looked back in Saturday's Grade 3, $175,000 Pucker Up at Arlington.

Avoiding trouble near the eighth pole when favored Ready to Act bore in sharply while leading and hit the rail, Harlequin Ranches' Llanarmon surged between rivals to post a victory in the $217,907 Natalma Stakes at Woodbine.

Still last in mid-stretch, Peace Preserver rallied between horses to secure the first graded stakes win of her career with an upset tally in the $200,000 Noble Damsel Stakes.