Horse Racing News

Since shipping back to North America from Dubai in April, Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's Godolphin Stable has yet to run any of its stakes performers from a year ago.

Eight of the nine horses entered in the Cornhusker Handicap have come from Texas and Illinois, from Florida and California.

Trainer Jimmy Jerkens said that Afleet Express came out of his victory in last Saturday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park in good order.

The $1 million Haskell Invitational looks appealing to trainer Butch Reid, following Afleet Again's second-place finish last weekend in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Breeders' Cup has added three group stakes races in Europe to its "Win and You're In" series that gives winners an automatic berth to one of its 14 year-end races, the organization announced on Tuesday.

What else could she have going for her? Salty Strike exits a key maiden race. She has the best Beyer Speed Figure in the field.

Once upon a time, the Victoria Park Stakes was considered a prep for the Queen's Plate.

The speedy American shipper Get Stormy will put his five-race win streak on the line Sunday at Woodbine in the $300,000 King Edward, a Grade 2 turf stakes that has been shortened from its traditional distance of nine furlongs to a mile this year.

One of Alex Solis' favorite hiking spots is the Mount Wilson Trail, in the town of Sierra Madre -- just north of Santa Anita Park where Solis won five of his 16 career southern California riding titles.

For the first time, General Consensus will start in a stakes that does not include division leader Tuscan Evening.