Horse Racing News

Joseph Bucci's Honorable Dillon made his stakes debut a winning one with a workmanlike score under Joe Rocco Jr. in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hutcheson at Gulfstream Park.

A legislative committee in New Mexico has unanimously approved a study to determine the feasibility of locating a slaughter facility in the state for purposes of processing horse meat for human consumption.

Game On Dude took some heat for six furlongs, then sped away in the stretch to take the $196,000 San Antonio Stakes as expected Feb. 3 for his sixth win in seven tries at Santa Anita Park.

The sky was the limit Feb. 2 at Tampa Bay Downs, with Falling Sky and Dynamic Sky finishing 1-2 in the $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes.

Bob Baffert has found his Derby horse as Flashback dominates in the G2 Robert Lewis at Santa Anita.

Stud TNT's Old Tune was making her U.S. debut in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Endeavour at Tampa Bay Downs and not only scored but did so in a stakes-record time of 1:39.30.

What WinStar Farm's Revolutionary lacks in seasoning he made up for in heart at Aqueduct Racetrack Feb. 2, closing late with a tremendously game effort to win the $200,000 Withers Stakes by a neck.

Owner Benjamin Leon spoke highly of Tapicat following her third-place finish first time out at Belmont Park, and in three starts since then she has rewarded his Besilu Stables with three straight wins on the turf.

After a solid spring-summer racing season in New York last season, Dealbata will make her 2013 debut in the $150,000 Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Feb. 2.

Six older horses seek their first graded stakes score in the $150,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack Feb. 2, led by 120-pound highweight Mine Over Matter and the recently claimed Johannesburg Smile, who carries 118.