Awesome Gem has upset defending champion Rail Trip to win the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. More...

Gio Ponti, last year's dual Eclipse Award winner as top older horse and grass champion, snapped a five-race losing streak Saturday with a narrow ... More...

Trappe Shot drew off in the stretch for a 2-length victory over Nacho Friend in the $175,000 Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday ... More...

For the next 10 days, the focus of the final weekend of Hollywood Park and the opening day at Del Mar is on 3-year-olds - the established main-track stars and the up-and-coming hopefuls on turf. More...

Lookin At Lucky worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 at Santa Anita on Saturday, moving the Preakness Stakes winner closer to a potential start in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 1. More...

For all the big-name trainers with horses shipping in for this year's $350,000 Princess Rooney Handicap, the only Grade 1 winner in the lineup belongs to the modest stable of the Kentucky-based Joan Scott. More...

Seriously defeated Amina by 1 lengths to win Friday night's $47,412 feature at Hollywood Park. More...

Reigning Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Dancing in Silks has resumed training with Carla Gaines and is expected to make a comeback by the end of the Del Mar meeting in late summer, Gaines said Friday. More...

Starspangledbanner emerged the gritty winner of the Group 1, $605,000 July Cup at Newmarket on Friday, with the speedy Australian-bred prevailing by a neck over the game pacesetting Equiano. More...

Jockey Eibar Coa rode his 4,000th career winner Friday aboard Maddy's Crowd in the ninth race at Monmouth Park. More...

Date With Destiny, the only offspring of the late champion miler George Washington, made her juvenile debut a winning one at Newbury on Friday with a comfortable victory in a seven-furlong maiden. More...

Jockey Tad Leggett, who on July 2 underwent a nine-hour surgery for spinal injuries sustained in a spill at Fair Meadows, remains in the intensive care unit at St. John's in Tulsa, said his agent, Cynthia Smith. More...

Venezuelan jockey Eibar Coa reached a career milestone Friday, riding his 4,000th winner. More...

Powder Princess edged Miss Red Delicious by a neck Friday in the $56,000 allowance feature for fillies and mares at Belmont Park. More...

As the other thoroughbreds broke from the gate, dark bay Buck awkwardly started his first race with a jittery hop and wobble that left him running ... More...

Rail Trip does not lack talent and therefore trainer Ron Ellis does not lack confidence entering Saturday's Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park ... More...

Change and survive. That's the mode Ellis Park continues to find itself in, with the 2010 summer meet starting Saturday amid the familiar call for alternative gaming and a pared-down racing schedule. More...

Several weeks ago, when trainer Rick Dutrow first confirmed he was sending D' Funnybone to Calder for Saturday's $200,000 Carry Back Stakes, he asked what the race looked like. More...

Nicanor, the full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, will try to capitalize on his affinity for Delaware Park's turf course to record his first stakes victory in Saturday's $100,000 Sussex Stakes. More...

One of the most impressive performances by a 3-year-old on the Belmont Stakes card unfolded hours before Drosselmeyer rallied to win the final jewel of the Triple Crown. More...