The storyline going into Friday’s Beldame (G2) was all about rediscovering top form, but it wasn’t the odds-on favorite, Randomized, who followed the script.

In Friday’s $250,000 renewal at Aqueduct, the Chad Brown mare hopes to recapture past glories after one of the worst races of her career.

One year after just missing in the Travers (G1), Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna was involved in another thriller on Saratoga’s marquee Saturday.

The Travers Day program at Saratoga on Saturday features three Breeders' Cup Challenge races, with the $500,000 Personal Ensign (G1) garnering much of the pre-race day attention.

Trainer Chad Brown had a glorious day at Monmouth Park on Saturday, saddling three of the four graded stakes winners on the Haskell Day undercard.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks up a gear at Saratoga on Friday, with a total of six graded stakes on tap. Fillies and mares take center stage in the three dirt stakes.

Alpha Delta Stables' homebred Raging Sea followed the leaders from well back in Friday’s $992,000 La Troienne S. (G1) at Churchill Downs, gained the initiative in between rivals in midstretch, and despite switching to her left lead was able to hold onto victory by three parts of a length over longshot Taxed.

Seven months after losing a stretch battle with Idiomatic by a half-length in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1), Randomized got her revenge over the reigning champion older dirt mare in the $500,000 Ogden Phipps (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday.

Idiomatic capped a a stellar 8-for-9 campaign with a hard fought victory in the $1.82 million Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Santa Anita on Saturday, prevailing by a half-length over stubborn three-year-old rival Randomized.

As the controlling speed in a short field, Klaravich Stables’ Randomized had a tactical edge in Sunday’s Beldame (G2) at Aqueduct. Add her supreme class into the equation, and the 3-10 favorite had her three rivals over the proverbial barrel.

Dominant Alabama (G1) winner Randomized bids to enhance her resume against older foes in Sunday’s $250,000 Beldame (G2).