Fun Final Prep: Orb breezes for Gold Cup
Jenn Patterson pondered a simple question as she and Orb walked a Fair Hill shedrow after the horse’s final Jockey Club Gold Cup workout Monday morning.
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Monday Morning Trainer: Big stuff at Parx
What did you do over the weekend? If you’re Thoroughbred racing, you threw parties – all over the country.
Belmont Recap: Gustavian comes through for Youngs
The barn work must have seemed easy Friday morning for Paddy and Leslie Young. Easier anyway. A Grade 1 win will do that to you, especially when you run a small, husband/wife training operation.
Fair Hill Beat: Canadian Double for Matz
Michael Matz sent two horses to Canada last week, and knew one was going to lose. That’s what happens when you run two horses in the same race.
Monday Morning Trainer: Catching up on the weekend.
Over at Sports Illustrated, and pretty much any NFL-related media, they call it Monday Morning Quarterback. Since we’re racing, let’s call it Monday morning Trainer.
Change Of Command eyes Parx turf stakes
With apologies to Gene Rayburn, Change Of Command is so big . . . How big is he?!
Hungry Island finds peace at Fair Hill
This summer, trainer Shug McGaughey put Hungry Island at the top of the toughest-to-gallop list in his career. The other day, exercise rider Jenn Patterson came in the barn after a gallop aboard the 5-year-old mare and was asked if they’d been squirted with a hose. Horse and rider were that wet.
Caroline Thomas continues long line of success
The first horse Joyce “Bonner” Young bought with her brother George Rowand was a yearling filly. Purchased through agent Tyson Gilpin at Keeneland, the daughter of Pia Star made five starts and earned a whopping $450.
Saratoga Rewind: Looking back at 2013
It’s been a week. As usual, it feels like a month and a day all at the same time. Saratoga’s 2013 meet, the 150th anniversary of the start of racing in the city, closed on Labor Day – wrapping up a happy, sad, roiling, rolling, up, down 40 days of live racing crammed into 46 days of live living.
Castellano gets Saratoga crown
Updated from the Sept. 1 Saratoga Special.
The question was simple. Javier Castellano had just won three races in a day to take a commanding lead in the Saratoga jockey standings the day after the Travers. His nearest rival was out with an injury.
