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The first weekend of the 2026 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a nine-race card – remember nine race cards? – topped by the inaugural running of the Grade 1 Leo O’Brien Handicap over jumps and the Grade 3 Kelso and Harvey Pack for older horses on the grass. Back to … Read more
Sovereignty turns back Baeza in the Jim Dandy and books ticket to next month’s Travers. Four weeks and counting. Issue 7 presented by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners takes a look back and a look ahead. Rusty Arnold returns to Saratoga and upsets the Lake George. New York-breds star in the Johnstone and the John Morrissey. Horacio … Read more
The third week of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a 10-race card highlighted by the Grade 2, $250,000 Glens Falls Stakes for fillies and mares going long on the grass. The 1 1/2-mile Glens Falls, the seventh race on the card with post time of 4:35 p.m., attracted … Read more
“When I turned for home, I unleashed my monster.” That’s how Junior Alvarado described Sovereignty’s win in the Belmont Stakes. Well, he’s back. Godolphin’s Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner returns against four rivals in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy. Turf fillies rumble in the Lake George. Louisiana-bred Smoken Wicked wins the Amsterdam. Grade 1 winner … Read more
The final weekend of July arrives with a 10-race card Friday topped by the Grade 2 Amsterdam for 3-year-old sprinters. A field of eight entered the $200,000 Amsterdam, which goes as the ninth race at 5:53 p.m. The group includes Grade 2 Pat Day Mile winner Macho Music, the 2-1 morning-line favorite who looks to … Read more
Week 3 of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls along Thursday with a 10-race card topped by the Curlin Stakes for 3-year-olds. A field of eight entered the 1 1/8-mile Curlin, a $135,000 potential prep for next month’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes. The group includes a pair from trainer Todd Pletcher’s barn in Crudo … Read more
And just like that, we roll into the 10th racing day and the fifth edition of The Saratoga Special. Grade 1 hurdlers rumble in the A.P. Smithwick Wednesday. Three-year-olds try to stamp their tickets to bigger and better things in the Curlin Thursday. Three-year-olds rip 6 furlongs in the Amsterdam Friday. And, oh yeah, Sovereignty … Read more
Week 2 of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with a 10-race card Sunday topped by the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes for older fillies and mares. The 6-furlong Honorable Miss attracted a field of nine led by Grade 2 winner Scylla for trainer Bill Mott, Grade 2 winner Jody’s Pride … Read more
Last year, racing was an afterthought for Little Prankster. After a successful 3-year-old season in which the daughter of Practical Joke won three of seven starts, she suffered a setback that almost took her life. “She got a terrible leg infection and we actually almost lost her,” said Phil Bauer, the 5-year-old mare’s trainer. After … Read more
Saratoga rolls on with the eighth day of racing and the fourth edition of The Special. Champion Immersive tries to climb back to the top in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks. Book’em Danno and Mullikin, 1-2 in the True North, clash in the Grade 2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Irish-bred Pipsy tries to make … Read more
Time for the weekend. The second Friday of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting features a 10-race card topped by a strong renewal of the Grade 2 Shuvee for older fillies and mares on the main track. Raging Sea puts her strong Saratoga record on the line in the 9-furlong Shuvee, which goes as the … Read more
