Horse Racing News

There is good news for horsemen with New York-breds competing in the 3-year-old turf division. You won't have to see Street Game again anytime soon.

It might seem unreasonable for a trainer to repeatedly slap his program and get all excited about his 1-5 shot drawing off as a clear winner, but Tom Proctor is extremely wary about what can happen in short fields.

Animal Kingdom has a small fracture to the cannon bone in his left hind leg that will keep the Kentucky Derby winner out for several weeks.

Switch is a multiple Grade 1 winner at seven furlongs, a graded stakes winner at 1 1/16 miles, and nearly won a Grade 1 over 1 1/8 earlier this year.

Preakness winner Shackleford has been sent to WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., for a two-week break before gearing back up for a run in the $1 million Haskell Invitational on July 31 at Monmouth Park, said trainer Dale Romans.

Trainer Todd Pletcher entered three horses in Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap at Belmont Park including the enigmatic Life At Ten, who won this race last year.

Al Stall Jr. won the Stephen Foster Handicap last year with Blame, but the 49-year-old trainer refrains from making unfair comparisons when it comes to Apart, the colt he will run Saturday in the Foster.

Under a relentless drive by Frankie Dettori, Godolphin's Rewilding overhauled So You Think within the shadow of the wire to claim a neck victory in the Group 1, $655,660 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot June 15.

Jockey Rajiv Maragh on Sunday will begin serving a seven-day suspension for a careless riding infraction for the incident at the start of last Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

It was billed as the headline event of the Royal Ascot meeting, and it did not disappoint, as Canford Cliffs outdueled defending champion Goldikova to capture the $406,928 Queen Anne Stakes in the opening race at Royal Ascot June 14.