Minnie Hauk Completes Epsom-Irish Oaks Double
Minnie Hauk was made to work hard but ultimately prevailed by 1 1/4 lengths to complete an Epsom-Irish Oaks (G1) double by taking the latter race July 19 at the Curragh.
Minnie Hauk was made to work hard but ultimately prevailed by 1 1/4 lengths to complete an Epsom-Irish Oaks (G1) double by taking the latter race July 19 at the Curragh.
Magnitude breezed a solo half-mile in :51.68 July 19 over the Oklahoma Training Track at Saratoga Race Course as he awaits the Aug. 23 Travers Stakes (G1), the 1 1/4-mile midsummer highlight for 3-year-olds of the Saratoga meet.
Scottish Lassie could not be beat in the $465,000 Coaching Club American Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1) July 19 at Saratoga Race Course, taking the field gate to wire for a dominating 15 1/2-length victory.
After finishing third against Raging Torrent and Fierceness in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1), the Monmouth Cup (G3) seemed like a soft touch for Just a Touch. His odds of 1-9 only strengthened that belief. Then Monmouth Park turned into Saratoga.
Five weeks after romping in front-running fashion in the 1 1/8-mile Monmouth Stakes, Redistricting proved similarly adept over a 1 3/8-mile distance in taking the $612,000 United Nations Stakes (G2T) over the turf course there July 19.
Already a graded stakes winner as a 3- and 4-year-old, Randomized added to her extensive résumé at 5 with an emphatic score in the July 19 $495,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park.
Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism mounted a sustained rally and caught Goal Oriented and Gosger near the wire to win the $1 million Haskell Stakes (G1) July 19 at Monmouth Park.
Future Is Now recorded a bounce-back win in the July 19 Caress Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course after a runner-up finish in the June 5 Intercontinental Stakes (G2T).
Back in against Mullikin and Nakatomi, horses he beat in the True North Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course in June, the result was the same July 19 in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (G2), with Book'em Danno prevailing by…