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Tom Law 
As horses filed out of the paddock before the running of the $100,000 Coronation Cup Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, Rusty Arnold and G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and their wives started walking to the box past the finish line they would occupy for roughly the next 10 minutes. Arnold’s assistant Claudio Cortes had just given Jose Lezcano a leg up on 2-1 favorite Morticia.
“Thank you Johnny, I love ya,” Wayne Catalano shouted as John Velazquez hopped off Dunk A Din in the winner’s circle after the third race Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.
The second week of the 2017 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with another nine-race Monday card topped by the $100,000 Coronation Cup for 3-year-old fillies going 5 1/2 furlongs on the grass.
Three horses strolled into the paddock for the Grade 3 Shuvee Handicap Sunday at Saratoga Race Course. The trio were the only fillies and mares entered in the $200,000 stakes and their body language spoke volumes of the race that was about to unfold.
Fifteen days ago the $200,000 Shuvee Handicap, the feature race on today’s 10-race card, closed with just 10 nominations. When entries were taken Thursday, only three were entered.
Kentucky Derby winner versus Preakness Stakes winner.
It’s that simple, a tantalizing matchup usually reserved for the Belmont Stakes to settle the Triple Crown score.
Preps for next month’s $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course are seemingly everywhere these days.
Fish Trappe Road jumps back into the New York-bred pool on what could be another wet day at Saratoga Race Course in today’s $100,000 John Morrissey Stakes.
The second week of the 2017 Saratoga Race Course meeting gets underway Wednesday with a 10-race card featuring the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap for fillies and mares.
Even trainer D. Wayne Lukas was surprised when the aptly named Perplexed won the opener Monday and paid $232.50 for Zayat Stables.
