by Teresa Genaro Though the Saratoga Derby Invitational was being run for the first time and is not a graded stakes race, it nonetheless felt like the feature on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course. Perhaps […]
Disinterest from some of his 11 opponents in setting the pace worked to the advantage of Channel Cat in Saturday’s $250,000 Bowling Green (G2) at Saratoga. Sent to the front by Luis Saez when no […]
by J. Keeler Johnson The minutes following the running of the $1 million Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Monmouth Park were eerily similar to the agonizing minutes that followed the 2019 Kentucky Derby […]
Following an afternoon-long siesta due to the heat, the revised Haskell (G1) undercard resumed at a steamy Monmouth Park Saturday. Neither the conditions nor a momentary trap in the pocket could make Midnight Bisou wilt, […]
by J. Keeler Johnson Dropping in class and distance made all the difference for Promises Fulfilled in Saturday’s $300,000 John A. Nerud Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park, as the chestnut had little difficulty defeating six […]
Connections considered the Belmont Stakes following a third in the Preakness Stakes but opted to send Owendale to Saturday’s $500,000 Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledown. The Grade 3-winning colt has been installed as the 9-5 morning line […]
A pair of stakes contests on Sunday featured the returns of disqualified Kentucky Derby winner Maximum Security and also-ran Roadster, but neither were able to score in their respective races. First up in the $150,000 […]
by J. Keeler Johnson On a busy afternoon of racing at Belmont Park, three-year-olds who weren’t quite up for running in the Belmont Stakes (G1) had a chance to shine in the $150,000 Easy Goer […]
A yielding turf course arguably proved the waterloo for 7-5 favorite A Thread of Blue in Saturday’s $500,000 Penn Mile (G2), but conditions suited John C. Oxley’s Moon Colony just fine. Trained by Mark Casse, […]
Third to Triple Crown champion Justify in last year’s Preakness (G1), Winchell Thoroughbreds’ homebred Tenfold summoned that past classic form in Friday’s $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3). The 5-1 chance muscled his way through in the […]
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