Horse Racing News

Champion Big Brown could be represented by the second stakes winner of his first juvenile crop when Archer Hill gets the job done over seven other 2-year-olds in the $250,000 Summer Stakes at Woodbine Sept. 15.
The starting gate for the $250,000 Natalma Stakes (Can-IIT) on the Woodbine lawn Sept. 15 will be packed with promising 2-year-old fillies, 14 in all, with an automatic Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf berth at stake.
The Irish classic winner will have an opportunity to make amends when she faces six other three-year-old fillies in Saturday's Grade 1, $300,000 Garden City over nine furlongs on the inner turf at Belmont Park.
Morton Fink's homebred Fourstardave Handicap winner Wise Dan drew post 3 and was assigned morning-line odds of 6-5 as the favorite in a nine-horse field entered Sept. 13 for the $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile Sept. 16 at Woodbine Racetrack.
The one-year suspension of John Veitch, Kentucky's former chief racing steward, in connection with the Life At Ten case was upheld by a judge Sept. 12.
Haskell Invitational winner Paynter, who was diagnosed with laminitis Sept. 4, continues to make significant strides toward recovery and could even make a return to racing, according to the Zayat family.
Rafael Bejarano will replace Chantal Sutherland as the rider for multiple Grade 1 winner Game On Dude, trainer Bob Baffert told The Blood-Horse Sept. 11.
Groupie Doll entered Saturday's Grade 2, $400,600 Presque Isle Downs Master off a more than four-month break, having last been seen taking the Grade 1 Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs on May 5.
Bourbon Courage, under a head of steam for jockey Leandro Goncalves, blew past Master Rick at mid-stretch to win the $500,000 Super Derby in a romp for the colt's first stakes victory Sept. 8 at Harrah's Louisiana Downs.
Stuart S. Janney III's homebred Air Support found his best stride late in the $196,000 Bowling Green Stakes on opening day of the fall meet at Belmont Park Sept. 8, wearing down frontrunner Bombaguia by a head to earn his first victory of the year.
 
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