Horse Racing News

Trainer Todd Pletcher and former assistant Michael Dilger will tangle in the $200,000 Saratoga Special Stakes Aug. 11 at Saratoga Race Course.

Clarence Scharbauer Jr.'s talented homebred Fiftyshadesofgold makes her graded stakes debut Aug. 11 at Saratoga Race Course, one of seven fillies entered for the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes.

Trainer Charlie LoPresti contemplated the question, scuffed his work boots in the dirt a little, answered with a thoughtful air.

Gary Contessa expects a more representative performance out of Rydilluc in Friday's Grade 2, $200,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame at Saratoga over 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf.

It's hard to imagine a more idyllic setting than Saratoga Race Course, but Kentucky Derby winner Orb seems to have found one at Fair Hill Training Center near Elkton, Md.

Trainer Mike Puype celebrated his 47th birthday with a victory by favored Alberts Hope in the $150,000 Best Pal Stakes for 2-year-olds Aug. 4 at Del Mar.

Justin Phillip missed winning the 2012 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga Race Course by a neck.

In a highly anticipated clash, Moonlight Cloud easily wore down elite sprinter Lethal Force and stormed to a Deauville course record August 4 in winning the Larc Prix Maurice de Gheest for a third time.

Overlooked at odds of 10-1, Lady of Fifty found redemption as she took the overland route under Corey Nakatani to capture the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Aug. 3 at Del Mar.

Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider's Departing was the first horse nominated to the $750,000 West Virginia Derby and the first horse entered when entries were taken July 30.