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Tom Law 
Showing no signs of being slowed from the after effects of surgery to remove a kidney stone earlier in the meet, Dallas Stewart bounces from his barn on the Oklahoma Training Track to watch training on the main track.
Sometimes he walks, other times he takes a golf cart. He’ll go to the Oklahoma, too, and Wednesday morning he was getting entries set for the weekend.
Vinnie Viola kissed Todd Pletcher, Tracy Pletcher, Hannah Pletcher and Payton Pletcher. He kissed his wife, Teresa. He kissed his son, John. He kissed Terry Finley and Anthony Bonomo. He kissed Richard Migliore. He kissed a man in a kilt.
Winning the Woodward is better than a kissing booth.
The final Saturday late pick 4 of the 2015 Saratoga meeting features the Grade 1 Woodward and Spinaway. Throw the Grade 3 Glens Falls and an allowance-optional in the mix to complete the sequence. With a $750,000 guarantee, let’s try and connect to end the meet on a high note.
Without Whitney winner Honor Code to run them down in the stretch, the eight horses in today’s Woodward get a chance at Grade 1 glory from a variety of angles.
Runner-up Liam’s Map and fourth-place finisher Wicked Strong exit the Whitney, the former looking to stretch his speed the full 9 furlongs and the latter aiming for his first win since the 2014 Jim Dandy.
On any given morning, if Joe Sharp isn’t at the barn he’s probably on the track galloping one of the nearly 40 horses in his string at Saratoga Race Course. That was the case earlier in the meeting when The Saratoga Special’s Annise Montplaisir caught up with him for a stable tour. Sharp was just heading to the track on Dolphus, a 2-year-old half-brother to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra.
Chad Brown’s is feeling the pressure heading into the 36th day of racing at Saratoga Race Course and the $100,000 P. G. Johnson Stakes.
Not because he’s clinging to a three-win lead over Todd Pletcher in search of his first training title at Saratoga.
Joanne Nielsen is charming, gracious and one of the most appealing people you will meet in the Thoroughbred business. And, oh yes, for about 40 years, by dint of single-minded year-round hard work fired by a passion for her calling, she has bred some outstanding horses in New York.
A very memorable Travers Stakes is in the books and there’s only a shade more than week to go in the 2015 Saratoga Race Course meeting. Still plenty of time to get out of the hole, pick up some shipping money or to pad the already swelled bankroll.
The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Time to see if Triple Crown American Pharoah can pass another test and add the Travers Stakes to his glittering resume.
Bob Baffert likens the task that awaits Triple Crown winner American Pharoah today at historic Saratoga Race Course to being like a “mini Kentucky Derby.”
The 146th running of the Travers Stakes is the latest stop on what now feels like a victory tour for the colt, who marched into history this spring with victories in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. He’s the first winner of the Triple Crown in 37 years and will try to become just the second horse to add the Travers to his resume forever immortalized by the rare sweep.
