Tom Law

World Of Trouble is fast. 

Sparked by three seven-figure yearlings Tuesday night – bringing the two-day total to five – the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale wrapped up an emotional run with record returns.

Brian Graves met the press a few minutes after selling a seven-figure yearling early in the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale and dug into his suit jacket pocket when asked to explain his latest pinhooking success. 

A winner’s circle photo without the winner is never easy. Such was the scenario for owner Jimmy Riccio, trainer Jeremiah Englehart and jockey Jose Ortiz after Sandy’z Slew won Sunday’s Grade 3 Troy Handicap. 

The major players from the Thoroughbred auction world hit town before the weekend, if not sooner, and just in time for the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings. 

Nick and Tris de Meric made it to upstate New York in time to pull double duty – scouting potential racing or pinhooking prospects and then see a filly they picked out as a weanling, raised, prepped and sent off to Grade 1 success do it again after a surgery rehab and more training this … Read more

Mind Your Biscuits knows every inch of Saratoga Race Course. 

Ian Wilkes settled into his seat, leaned forward to rest his elbows on the small ledge in his box and didn’t hit the panic button while he watched Big Dollar Bill drop about 7 lengths behind a three-way battle in Thursday’s four-horse Birdstone Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. 

Steve Young and Chad Brown went shopping – like hundreds of other horsemen from around the globe – at the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale. 

Wow; is it just us or does it seem like Week 3 of the 2018 Saratoga Race Course meeting and August 1 rolled around awfully fast? Ready or not here it is and a 10-race card that opens with a steeplechase allowance and features the $100,000 Shine Again for fillies and mares going 7 furlongs.