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Randomized puts everybody on the back foot in the Grade 1 Alabama and runs away with the victory for Klaravich Stable and trainer Chad Brown. In Saturday’s Lake Placid, the Brown-trained Aspray kicks away late. We take a Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with Danny Gargan, preview this week’s stakes action from the Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard … Read more

Week 6 and Alabama Weekend come to a close Sunday with a 10-race card topped by the $150,000 Bolton Landing Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on the grass. The 5 1/2-furlong Bolton Landing drew a field of six and goes early on the card, as the fourth race with a post time of 2:52 p.m. so … Read more

Alabama Day. Wet Paint, heroine of the Coaching Club American Oaks a month ago, looks for her second Grade 1 win of the meet for Godolphin and trainer Brad Cox. She faces off with Sacred Wish, Gambling Girl and others in the historic mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The Saturday card includes the Lake Placid for 3-year-old fillies … Read more

The weekend arrives and another loaded 10-race card at Saratoga Race Course to set the stage for a big Saturday featuring the Alabama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The $150,000 Skidmore Stakes going 5 ½ furlongs on the turf highlights Friday’s card, as the eighth race at 4:58 p.m. An overflow field was entered, relegating a … Read more

Week 6 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls and a 10-race card featuring the Rick Violette Stakes and the third annual New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day await horseplayers and fans Thursday. The Rick Violette, named for the trailblazing horsemen’s advocate, aftercare innovator and outstanding trainer, goes as the ninth at 5:46 p.m. A … Read more

That’s two. Turf veteran Casa Creed digs in late to catch Annapolis and win a second Fourstardave and second graded stakes at Saratoga 2023. Total dude. Two-year-old Rhyme Schemes delivers in the Saratoga Special (the race) for trainer Norm Casse, who is thinking Hopeful. We take a Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with Tom Amoss, catch up … Read more

Week 5 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a 10-race card topped by the $150,000 Mahoney for 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass. With five weeks in the books that only leaves three to go but some serious steam up ahead with the Alabama Stakes Aug. 19, Travers Stakes … Read more

If Saratoga had a pool and a pond, the pond would be OK with Carl Spackler who blazed down the stretch to win Friday’s rescheduled Hall of Fame Stakes after the original was canceled with horses in the paddock last week. Check your Caddyshack references and read about how he did it. Plus we’ve got … Read more

The weekend is here and Friday kicks it off with an 11-race card at Saratoga Race Course featuring three stakes. New York-bred take their turn on the stage in the $125,000 Union Avenue for fillies and mares and older horses go in the $125,000 Evan Shipman. Friday’s card also includes the rescheduled Grade 2 Hall … Read more

Halfway. The 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting hit the midpoint Wednesday and crosses into the second half Thursday with a 10-race card without a stakes. The $125,000 John Morrissey Handicap was slated for Thursday’s card but didn’t draw sufficient entries. That leaves a card of the usual – maidens, allowances and claimers – on the … Read more