The Royal meeting at Ascot kicked off Tuesday with a rousing success from Declaration of War, who garnered his first Group 1 win by taking the Queen Anne Stakes for trainer Aidan O'Brien and his jockey son Joseph.Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner and 5-4 Queen Anne favorite following his convincing two-length score in the Dubai World Cup, never fired in the one-mile straightaway,...

Classic winner Dawn Approach turned a nadir into triumph Tuesday in the Group 1 St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot when rekindling the form that saw him win the Two Thousand Guineas.Clinging on by a short-head from runner-up Toronado, Dawn Approach took the St James's Palace Stakes just 17 days after finishing last in the Epsom Derby. He gave jockey Kevin Manning a horrible ride that day,...

Ireland's Sole Power, an 8-1 chance in Tuesday's Group 1 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, vanquished raiders from farther afield, the 11-4 favorite Shea Shea from South Africa whom he caught close home and beat a neck, while Australia's Shamexpress finished ninth, 4 1/4 lengths adrift of the winner.Johnny Murtagh came with a late run which was timed to perfection on Sole Power, who is trained...

After a fantastic night of racing beneath the Twin Spires, the equine stars of Stephen Foster Handicap Night at Churchill Downs were reported by their connections to be in good order. With one of the top performances of the year, Janis Whitham's homebred Fort Larned scored a 6 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap and trainer Ian Wilkes said he came out of the race well...

Janis R. Whitman's Fort Larned entered Saturday's Grade 1, $536,300 Stephen Foster Handicap struggling to vindicate his victory in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic. The E Dubai five-year-old lost jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. in his seasonal opener, the Gulfstream Park Handicap, then ran fifth in the Oaklawn Handicap in mid-April.Whitman, Hernandez and trainer Ian Wilkes never lost faith in their...

In 2012, owner Mort Fink and trainer Charles LoPresti started off Wise Dan's campaign with a 10 1/2-length victory in Keeneland's Ben Ali at Keeneland, followed by a close head second in the Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs. The Wiseman's Ferry gelding would go on to take three Grade 1s, including the Breeders' Cup Mile, en route to being named Horse of the Year. On Saturday, Fink and...

The Breeders' Cup has announced that Santa Anita Park has been selected as the site for the 2014 Breeders' Cup World Championships. The 31st Breeders' Cup, consisting of 14 races with purses and awards totaling $27 million, will be held on October 31 and November 1, 2014, and brings the event to Los Angeles for the third consecutive year. Santa Anita Park, which is the site of this year's...

Both Dogwood Stable's Palace Malice and trainer Todd Pletcher were feeling good Sunday morning following the colt's 3 1/4-length victory over Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby victor Orb in the Belmont Stakes Saturday at Belmont Park. "He is a remarkable horse," said Pletcher, who was celebrating his second Belmont victory. "He bounces out of his races really well. It was a tough race...