While Saturdays race is for three years old and up, only sophomore have come to compete in this years event, and we don’t even have Team 7 Illusions sending out an entry to defend his title. The Matchmaker Gr. III… Read More ›
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Sunpunch Loves Soft Going in The AP Handicap
The AP Handicap – GIII7/13/19AP Race 3 1 3/16M – TurfPurse $150.000Three Year Olds and Up 1st Sunpunch, trained by Greeko Holdem The first stakes win ever for this horse and it even came in a graded stakes race…. Read More ›
TC Race Winners Start Outside in Haskell
The summer heats up this weekend in more ways then one, and at MTH we will be treated to the 14th running of the Grade 1 Haskell. This is a race that has been good in the past to winners of one of the TC races, as the last three Haskell winners (Pretty Ferro, Shootfromthehip and Carneyman) held that distinction.
Friday at The Spa Will Feature Lake George Event
Filly three year olds will get a jump on the weekend when they compete here at Saratoga in the Gr. III Lake George race. Named for the beautiful surroundings just north on the Interstate 87, this event has drawn six… Read More ›
A Spiders Web of Intrigue in The CCA Oaks Sets Up a Great Race
The CCA Oaks – Grade ISAR Race #8 1 1/8m Dirt Graded StakePurse $500.000 For Fillies Three Years Old. 1 Spicy Poke Estero Farms Wilson E J Third in the grade two Sorrento Stakes as a juvenile this filly was… Read More ›
Ishtar Viking Wins Feature Race at WO
Three year old filly not only steps up into her first ever stakes events, but her first ever older company race and walks away with the Gr. III ONT Matron event here on Saturday for Nakamura Stables. ONT Matron Stakes… Read More ›
Brazen Deception Has Taken a Shine to the Turf with American Derby Victory
In just his second event over the grass in his past two starts, this three year old chestnut by Braveheart has definitely found what he has been looking for, and trainer Nakamura Stables could not be happier. American Derby –… Read More ›
Charlemagnes Command Captures LA Derby
Completing this event with the only sub 1:48 time and just three tenths of a second off the track record, it seems that third time with Lasix was just what the Vet ordered to help bring home this title for… Read More ›
High One Sails Away with The Sanford
The Sanford was moved up a couple weeks this year to correspond with the first weekend racing at beautiful Saratoga Race Course. I would have loved to have been there for real, and the weather was great, both there and within HRP.
Team 7 Illusions Finds Four-Leaf Clover in Charo
Last month in the Fleur de Lis Handicap at CD, Charo went wire to wire to win, holding off Prima Dona in the end to do so. They would meet again here in the DEL Handicap for a purse that would be triple what they ran for last time.