Horse Racing News

Boisterous may have won the Man o' War Stakes last time out at Belmont Park, but he isn't scaring away competition from the Aug. 17 Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap at Saratoga Race Course.

With most of the big-name 3-year-old fillies on the sidelines or headed elsewhere, King of Prussia Stable's Princess of Sylmar will face only five foes in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes Aug. 17 at Saratoga Race Course.

Priscilla Vaccarezza's 2012 Arlington Million winner Little Mike will defend his crown Aug. 17 at Arlington Park, but faces a stiff challenge in a 13-horse field that includes the winners of Group/Grade 1 races on four other continents.

Delaware Park stewards have suspended veteran trainer Donald Roberson for two years for possessing hypodermic needles, hypodermic syringes, and injectable medications.

Todd Pletcher, who could saddle the top two choices in the $1 million Travers Stakes, sent star 3-year-olds Palace Malice and Verrazano out for easy half-mile breezes in :49.02 and :49.05, respectively, Aug. 11.

A freshened Tiz Flirtatious made easy work of her four opponents in the $250,000 John C. Mabee Stakes Aug. 11, shaking clear in upper stretch to win without much of a challenge on the Del Mar turf.

The Jockey Club will provide up to $500,000 in 2014-15 to some racing jurisdictions to step up out-of-competition drug testing with a focus on graded stakes.

Front-running Corfu nipped Wired Bryan by a bare nose in a desperate finish to the $200,000 Saratoga Special Aug. 11, giving trainer Todd Pletcher his first win in the longstanding 2-year-old event at Saratoga Race Course.

Valene Farm's Designer Legs was awarded the victory via disqualification following a roughly-run edition of the Grade 2, $196,000 Adirondack at Saratoga on Sunday.

Jockey Garrett Gomez boldly announced his return to action with a come-from-behind victory aboard 8-1 shot Dice Flavor in a dramatic finish to the $150,000 La Jolla Handicap on the grass Aug. 10 at Del Mar.