Horse Racing News

Richlyn Farm's upset Prioress Stakes winner Lighthouse Bay, Ju Ju Eyeballs, and TVG Coaching Club American Oaks runner-up My Happy Face all converge Aug. 24 in a loaded edition of the $500,000 Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

A six-time Grade 1 winner whose problems with the Polytrack at Del Mar have been well-chronicled, Game On Dude is on the verge of a breakthrough in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic Aug. 25, trainer Bob Baffert believes.

North America's best sophomores face off Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course -- Kentucky Derby winner Orb, Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice, and William Hill Haskell Invitational winner Verrazano meeting in the $1 million Travers Stakes.

Kentucky Derby winner Orb has a chance Saturday in the Travers Stakes to get back in the 3-year-old championship picture.

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.

Lanni Family Trust's Reneesgotzip was much the best as she wired Sunday's Rancho Bernardo Handicap and crossed the wire in a track-record 1:14.48.

John D. Gunther's homebred Last Gunfighter outdueled defending champion San Pablo by a head in Sunday's Grade 3, $148,500 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park.

All the attention leading up to the $200,000 Longacres Mile Handicap Aug. 18 at Emerald Downs had been focused on Politicallycorrect, the stakes winner and graded stakes-placed homebred of Ken and Sarah Ramsey.

Joyce B. Young's homebred Caroline Thomas has been a hard luck horse so far, and her frustrating pattern seemed to continue when her late rally came up just short in Sunday's Grade 2, $200,000 Lake Placid at Saratoga.

Discreet Marq, invading from New York for trainer Christophe Clement, shot to the lead coming into the stretch and proved best through the lane to register a mild upset in the $300,000 Del Mar Oaks at Del Mar Aug. 17.