Stakes Recap: Christophe Clement Turf & Galway
Tom Amoss looks back at the Christophe Clement Turf Stakes & the Galway Stakes at Saratoga.
Stradale Outlasts Oscar's Hope to Take Mahony
The two horses with the least experience on grass were the top two across the Saratoga Race Course wire Aug. 16 in the $225,000 Mahony Stakes (G3T), with Stradale outlasting Oscar's Hope to win by a neck.
‘TDN Rising Star’ Q B Rocket Looks To Stretch The Field For Cox
Edited Press Release Spendthrift Farm and Frank Fletcher Racing Operations' Q B Rocket made a winning debut sprinting six furlongs on Saturday versus fellow juveniles in the eighth race, which earned him a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' for…
Speedy Sweet Azteca Nets Third GIII Rancho Bernardo Stakes At Del Mar
Collecting yet another graded stakes trophy for her case, Sweet Azteca (Sharp Azteca–So Sweetitiz, by Grand Slam) took the GIII Rancho Bernardo Stakes at Del Mar for the third straight year on Sunday. The race was also part of the…
Week in Review: When Tracks Again Post Armed Guards Outside Tote Rooms, We’ll Know It’s a Real Betting Coup
The quartet of eye-catching Aug. 9 wins at Monmouth Park and Saratoga by horses returning from months-long layoffs, all prepped at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland by the previously low-profile (178 wins in 17 years at a 12% clip)…
Red, White, Blue Clad Ortiz Steers Son Of Yaupon Stradale To Win Mahony Stakes
In the GIII Mahony Stakes at Saratoga on Sunday afternoon, Stradale (Yaupon–Twitterpated, by Stormy Atlantic) took the featured race on the card with a late move down the lane and secured the first graded win of his career. A competitor…
Saratoga Notebook, Presented By NYRA Bets: Brown Will Send My Gun’s Loaded To Alabama; Always A Runner To Cotillion
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown will have a filly in the $600,000 GI Alabama Stakes on Saturday, but it's not the one you might have expected. My Gun's Loaded (Gun Runner), will make her stakes debut in the…
Knightsbridge Made Morning-Line Favorite For GI Pacific Classic Stakes
Edited Press Release A field of 11 runners–led by six out-of-towners, one of them from Japan, as well as a filly–were entered to run Sunday in next Saturday's 36th edition of the $1-million GI Pacific Classic, the top level highlight…
Jackie’s Warrior’s Let Em Know Prevails in Game Effort on the Lawn
Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland Spendthrift's freshman sire Jackie's Warrior (by Maclean's Music), so brilliant at Saratoga with Grade I wins at two, three, and four, appropriately got his first turf winner at the Spa Sunday to go along with…
‘Big Moment’ for Hotellerie as Godolphin Dominates Arqana
By Emma Berry and Brian Sheerin DEAUVILLE, France — In the bloodstock world, it is as timeless as the sunrise and sunset: a proper old-fashioned bidding war between Godolphin and Coolmore. And by the time the sun had set on…