STEPHEN FOSTER WINNER BLAME WILL POINTED TO WHITNEY ON AUG. 7 AT SARATOGA

Gary Yunt
Churchill Downs
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra was reported by trainer Steve Asmussen to be doing well on Sunday following her 10½-length victory in the $200,000-added Fleur De Lis Handicap (Grade II) on the Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) undercard.

Gary Yunt
Churchill Downs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables and Harold McCormick’s reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra will try to regain her winning ways on Saturday when she faces four rivals as an overwhelming favorite in the 36th running of $200,000-added Fleur de Lis Handicap (GII) for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs.

FINAL THREE-EIGHTHS OF THE MILE WAS IN 36.40

(Edited Hollywood Park report)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – In her final major preparation for the $250,000 Vanity Handicap on Sunday at Hollywood Park, Zenyatta breezed six furlongs in 1:15 1/5 over Cushion Track this morning.

FILLY WORKS FOUR FURLONGS IN 49.20 ON MONDAY; RACE DECISION COMING SHORTLY

(Edited Churchill Downs report)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra has been assigned 118 pounds by Churchill Downs racing secretary Ben Huffman for Saturday’s 29th running of the $600,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) at 1 1/8 miles on the main track.

BOBBLEHEAD GIVEAWAY WILL HONOR UNDEFEATED MARE

(Edited Hollywood Park report)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer John Shirreffs said Sunday that Zenyatta, undefeated in 16 races, will start under top weight of 129 pounds in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap on June 13 at Hollywood Park.

(Churchill Downs and Tracksideview.com reports)

Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra is scheduled to make her next start June 12, with four different races, including the Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade 1) at Churchill Downs against males, under consideration for the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, according to a press release Tuesday from majority owner Jess Jackson.

JOCKEY RANDY ROMERO, AZERI, BEST PAL AND POINT GIVEN ELECTED

(National Museum of Racing release) 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Jockey Randy Romero and horses Azeri, Best Pal and Point Given have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. The Class of 2010 will be inducted on Friday, August 13 in a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. at the newly renovated Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion.

Grayson-Jockey Club release

Penny Chenery, whose Meadow Stable raced Secretariat and Riva Ridge, has donated one of her original watercolors to be auctioned at the Belmont Bash.

The Belmont Bash will be held at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island on June 3, two days before the Belmont Stakes, and will benefit the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and the Backstretch Employee Services Team (B.E.S.T.).

“I’m having so much fun with my new interest painting watercolors that I am delighted…

(Edited Churchill Downs report)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Stonestreet Stable and Harold McCormick’s 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra returned to serious training following her upset loss in the $400,000-added La Troienne (GII) at Churchill Downs with an easy half-mile breeze on Monday at Churchill Downs.

Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Belmont Park
 
ELMONT, N.Y.  – Before it was the Dwyer, it was the Brooklyn Derby, a race inaugurated in 1887 at Gravesend Race Track and won that year by an undefeated 3-year-old named Hanover who had overpowered one opponent in the Belmont Stakes just five days earlier.

Of course, those were different times.
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Photo/National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Hanover became the leading sire in the country when…