The $55,000 Lincoln Handicap at Ruidoso Downs, in which Peppers Pride was to shoot for her 17th consecutive win, has not been rescheduled for this weekend as originally planned because the track is still recovering from seven inches of rainfall that forced it to cancel its entire card last Sunday.
A track spokesman said it is yet to be determined whether the Lincoln will be rescheduled.
Bruce Levine, the leading trainer at Monmouth Park, faces a 15-day suspension, a $500 fine, and loss of purse money for an overage of the anti-inflammatory phenylbutazone.
Levine and his attorney, Dennis Drazin, the president of the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, were present at a hearing conducted Wednesday morning by the Monmouth stewards.
Drazin said the stewards' ruling will be appealed to the New Jersey Racing Commission, as soon as it is officially issued.
A consortium of groups representing horsemen have asked a Kentucky judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Churchill Downs Inc. on the grounds that the horsemen have an ironclad right to block the export of racetrack signals to out-of-state locations.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Prussian returns to the scene of his dominant debut win nearly a year ago in an attempt to turn around what has thus far been a frustrating 3-year-old season when he runs in the $80,000 Majestic Light, the supporting feature on Friday's Saratoga card.
SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Justin Evans couldn't wait to start training racehorses, but about a week after getting his trainer's license at age 18, he was ready to head home to Chino Valley, Ariz.
"Conditions were pretty tough for a kid just starting out," Evans said.
Evans eventually persevered through his struggling start at Turf Paradise - and today he is very glad he did. At age 27, he is contending for leading trainer at Canterbury Park, where on Saturday he will have six runners in the 10th Claiming Crown.
SHAKOPEE, Minn. The Claiming Crown apparently has become so entrenched in the collective conscience of American horseplayers that Roman numerals are now attached. Claiming Crown X, or the 10th running, is set for Saturday at Canterbury Park, where 64 horses were entered Wednesday for the seven-race series.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - True Metropolitan, who had not lost two straight races since opening up his 2006 campaign with three defeats, was the runner-up for the second straight time here in last Sunday's $151,200 Seagram Cup.
"He was the best horse - he just ran a little bit farther than the other horse," said trainer Terry Jordan, who had watched True Metropolitan finish a head back as the Seagram Cup runner-up after Artie Hot slipped up the rail for the stretch drive.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When Carriage Trail got beat in the Mariensky Stakes at Belmont Park three weeks ago, jockey Edgar Prado told trainer Shug McGaughey he waited too long to make his move.
In Wednesday's $84,250 De La Rose Stakes at Saratoga, Prado could not have timed his move any better.
Prado swung Carriage Trail out into the four path turning into the stretch and the 5-year-old mare made a big move inside the sixteenth pole to run down Trouble Maker in the final jump to win the De La Rose by a nose. It was a length back to Medley in third.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The field for the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park is coming into clearer focus.
Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner who is making his first start since being pulled up in the Belmont Stakes, remains the headliner for the biggest event of the meet.
The roster of challengers continues to shift. As of Wednesday, Monmouth racing secretary Mike Dempsey projected a field of seven.