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Sweet Azteca, who won the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos for the third consecutive year on Saturday, is likely to have one more start in advance of an intended appearance in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
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Iron Man Cal, a stakes winner on turf in 2024 and the runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf that year, may have his first career start on dirt in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 18.
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In his multi-decade career of owning horses, Steven Shapiro has employed Hall of Famer H. Allen Jerkens and the classic winning conditioner John “Butch” Lenzini. Shapiro believes Gustavo Rodriguez is in their category and deserves to be training a large stable. Currently, Rodriguez has 16 horses.
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Will Stroud was in Washington, D.C., on Saturday celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of America, watching the Fourth of July Fireworks show in the nation’s capital with friends and politicians he has met through his private equity investment firm.
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Mark Casse had his two Grade 1 stakes-winning fillies on the main track early Sunday morning, putting them through workouts for their upcoming stakes engagements.
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Poulin in O T ran gamely up front in Sunday’s $100,000 Pink Lloyd Stakes at Woodbine to prevail under Ryan Munger.
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Trainer Horacio De Paz got the pace scenario he was hoping for when he entered Twenty Six Black in Sunday’s $200,000 Harvey Pack Stakes at Saratoga. The late-striding New York-bred did the rest, finishing strongly down the center of the course to register a convincing 2 3/4-length victory over Possiblemente in the 5 1/2-furlong turf dash.
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Triskelion overhauled favored Beach Heist in the final strides for a victory in the $175,000 Pea Patch Stakes for 3-year-old fillies sprinting on the turf on Sunday at Ellis Park.
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Zulu Kingdom crossed the wire first eight times in his first 10 starts - he lost one win in the stewards’ stand - but his margin of victory was rarely that big over the second-place finisher. On Sunday, Zulu Kingdom crossed the wire first in the Grade 3 Kelso Stakes at Saratoga and this time there was no second-place finisher.
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Most of the early speed scratched from the $100,000 Monmouth County Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park, and Gerrards Cross took full advantage in a commanding gate-to-wire victory under Cipriano Gil.
