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Sheep Pond Partners's Lady Eli (Divine Park) looks to continue to dazzle the racing community by extending her perfect record to six-for-six in Saturday's GI Belmont Oaks Invitational S. The bay's trainer, Chad Brown, won the inaugural running of this "Win and You're" in test for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf last year with Minorette (Smart Strike). A debut winner at Saratoga last August, Lady Eli followed that with a victory in Belmont's GIII Miss Grillo S. a month later and was ultra impressive when capturing the GI Breeders'...

Nine sophomore turfers have come from all over to contest Saturday's second running of the $1.25-million GI Belmont Derby Invitational. California-based Bolo (Temple City) gets the 7-2 nod on a morning line that Eric Donovan surely mulled over a little longer than usual. A promising grass stakes winner for Carla Gaines last season, the dark bay certainly did not disgrace himself on the Triple Crown trail earlier this season. Third behind Dortmund (Big Brown) in the Mar. 7 GII San Felipe S. and Apr. 4 GI Santa Anita Derby, he checked in...

Saturday's G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock lacks an obvious star turn, as it has done in recent times, but it remains a marker of prestige for the winner and the line-up looks as competitive as it is wide-open. One of the most improved mares in Britain so far in 2015 is Chris Van Hoorn's Miss Marjurie (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), who is on a three-timer after smooth wins in the Listed Daisy Warwick S. at Goodwood May 2 and G3 Pinnacle S. over this track and trip four weeks later. On the latter...

With just four older horses lining up to test his mettle in what has long been known as the “first clash of the generations” in Saturday's G1 Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, the path is clear for Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) to extend his autocracy into the wider sphere. A week after the dominating display of his stable companion Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) in an Irish Derby that only served to confirm the gravity of the latest renewal of Epsom's blue riband, Anthony Oppenheimer's bay has that unbeatable aura around him as...

Four time Group 1 winner Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who injured a sesamoid after winning the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup May 24, has resumed light work for trainer Roger Charlton, who has hopes of an autumn campaign for the 7-year-old John Deer colorbearer.  "Al Kazeem is being ridden and as of today he will start trotting for the first time, which is good news,” said Charlton. “He will then have another scan in three or four weeks.”  Al Kazeem, who won the 2013 Tattersalls Gold Cup, G1 Prince of Wales's S....

Khalid Abdullah's G3 Tercentenary S. winner Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is set to swerve the July 12 G1 Prix Jean Prat, and trainer Roger Charlton said he is uncertain where the progressive 3-year-old will run next.  "I don't know where Time Test will go, as no firm decisions have been made at the moment,” the Beckhampton conditioner said. "The first option had been the Prix Jean Prat on Sunday week, but he is not going to run in that. Next up is the Prix Eugene Adam [at Maisons-Laffitte], which comes later...

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) will make his next start in Monmouth Park's GI William Hill Haskell Invitational S. Aug. 2, owner Ahmed Zayat told ESPN.com Thursday.  "I've decided to do the logical step and run American Pharoah at Monmouth," Zayat said. "I'm trying to create one of the best days racing has ever seen for its fans and one that will also fit the prestige that surrounds American Pharoah. I want it to be a great day for everyone that will celebrate racing."  Hall of Famer Bob Baffert,...

By T.D. Thornton  The horse racing landscape in Virginia shifted significantly July 1 when new state racing statutes went into effect to turn over simulcasting privileges and profits from closed Colonial Downs, which has not held a Thoroughbred meet since 2013, to a newly recognized a non-profit alliance between the state's Thoroughbred, Standardbred and steeplechase racing interests.  But even though Wednesday marked the official date of the changes in the state's racing laws, the Virginia Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (VHBPA) and the relatively new Virginia Equine Alliance (VEA) have...

Texas Red (Afleet Alex), last year's impressive upset winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, makes his belated second start of the year after getting knocked off the Triple Crown trail due to a foot abscess. Third behind American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in Santa Anita's GI FrontRunner S. last September, the Keith Desormeaux pupil may have benefitted from the absence of that superstar when he easily bested MGISW Carpe Diem (Giant's Causeway), next-out GII Holy Bull S. winner Upstart (Flatter), et al in the year-end championship event. He overcame a...

The countdown has begun to South Africa's premier race, the R3.5 million, G1 Vodacom Durban July. Saturday will see a full field 18 runners tackling the exacting 2200m of the Greyville Racecourse. The Durban July is a conditions race with a set top weight of 60kgs and with a capped weight of 57kgs for 3-year-old old colts and geldings and 56kgs for their female counterparts. Hence in recent years the 3-year-olds have dominated, winning five of the last six races. This year's field includes three 3-year-old colts and three fillies,...

Sporting a 5-4-1-0 record at Belmont which included wins in last year's GI Belmont S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, Shel Evans's Tonalist (Tapit) will take some serious beating in Saturday's GII Suburban H. The Christophe Clement pupil ended his sophomore campaign with a late-on-the-scene fifth in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic, and made a successful comeback when cruising in this venue's one-mile GIII Westchester S. May 2, earning a career-top Beyer Speed Figure of 111. He settled for a good second last time to fellow 'TDN Rising Star' Honor Code (A.P. Indy)...

Group 1 winning mare Miracles Of Life (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) has been retired by owners Stonestreet Throughbred Holdings to begin her career as a broodmare with a date with an as of yet to be decided Coolmore stallion in the offing. The dual Group 1 winner ended her racing career on a high having recently landed the G1 William Hill Classic at Morphettville in May for the Peter & Paul Snowden stable, a team she joined a year previously following her A$900,000 sale at the Magic Millions Broodmare Sale....