Tom Law

Wesley Ward wasn’t sure about Stillwater Cove. The daughter of Quality Road looked awkward and gangly, like she wanted a route of ground. Then, she worked at Turfway Park Feb. 15. Ward was sure. 

Twenty-two days in the books and only 18 remaining in the 2018 Saratoga Race Course season, which resumes Wednesday with a ten-race card topped by the $100,000 Bolton Landing.

The sixth race Sunday at Saratoga Race Couse, the Jean Kolonay Memorial, honored a fan of horse racing in upstate New York and a champion of young girls in her Trafford, Pa., community.

Gary Young doesn’t make his way to Saratoga often. The agent and Del Mar regular of 37 years last visited the Spa eight years ago to see Life At Ten run in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign, where she finished third to Persistently and Rachel Alexandra. When he traveled east to see Call Paul run in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes, one could figure the horse is special.

The fourth week of the 2018 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with a nine-race card Monday sans a stakes race – the Saratoga Dew failed to attract enough entries.

Jeremiah Englehart watched Todd Pletcher run a New York-bred maiden winner back against open company in the Grade 2 Adirondack last summer – instead of another $200,000 restricted stakes later in the meet – and come away with a victory.

Jockey Frankie Pennington was the most popular man at Saratoga Race Course after he rode Always Sunshine to victory in the $100,000 Tale Of The Cat Stakes. As the rider and his mount posed in the winners’ circle, cheers rang out from the crowd and fans waved their racing programs in the air in celebration of Pennington’s first local win.  

Tony and Pat Smith don’t keep a lot of broodmares in their Hilly Fields Stable breeding operation. They own only one in fact, Ladywell Court. 

World Of Trouble is fast.