Horse Racing News

In an effort to preserve field size, Hollywood Park may run four days a week during its autumn meeting later this year, track president Jack Liebau said on Friday.

New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation will develop a comprehensive restructuring plan over the next 30 days that will likely include proposed cuts in the amount of money that the state's racing industries receive from the company's betting revenue.

he 5-year-old mare Life At Ten has been a late bloomer for trainer Todd Pletcher. Since she learned how to win, Life At Ten has been unbeatable.

Belmont Park canceled its Friday card because of power problems in the area caused by the intense heat in the New York City region.

Formidable switches back to the turf for Hall of Famer trainer Allen Jerkens in the Grade 3, $200,000 Jaipur Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park. The six-furlong Jaipur is the final stakes of the meet, which concludes Sunday.

The Tuscan Evening show has hit the road. Deadly in California, Tuscan Evening has brought her considerable talents to Arlington Park in an excellent edition of the Grade 3, $150,000 Modesty Handicap.

The most accomplished 3-year-old in California during the Santa Anita winter meeting was Sidney's Candy, who won three stakes, including the Santa Anita Derby.

When General Quarters won the 2009 Blue Grass Stakes and went on to the Kentucky Derby, the story line screamed, 'Write me!' And any scribe covering last year's Derby readily obliged.

The New York Racing Association announced Wednesday that it has scrapped a 5-year-old policy that required horses to be isolated in a security barn six hours prior to running in any race at a NYRA track.

Rail Trip, the leading older male in California in recent months and the runner-up in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup last Saturday, has been transferred from trainer Ron Ellis in California to Rick Dutrow in New York, owner Mace Siegel said on Tuesday.