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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Sunday 8/16/26
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Sunday 8/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Sunday 8/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Regal Patriot was claimed by trainer Doug O’Neill at Del Mar on Aug. 8 in a unique manner – by a ballot of the participants in the Run Fast Racing stable.
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In May, the colt Inshallah was purchased for $2.1 million at the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic sale of 2-year-olds in-training, the most expensive hip of the auction.
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Mr. A. P. had an ideal trip in an allowance race on turf at Del Mar on Thursday, stalking the pace en route to a win by 1 1/4 lengths. The allowance race was designed as a prep race for the $1.75 million Gun Runner Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on turf at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 7.
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Knightsbridge, who has won three Grade 3 races by a combined 26 1/4 lengths this year, breezed five furlongs in 1:00.60 on the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga on Friday in advance of a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 22.
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The 3-year-old filly Precise in her last two starts has not been able to handle the 4-year-old filly Blue Bolt, but Blue Bolt won't line up against her Sunday at Deauville in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois, among Europe's premier one-mile races open to older horses.
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The workouts were dissimilar in nature, but both served the purpose for trainers Gustavo Delgado and Todd Pletcher as they prepare their 3-year-olds The Puma and Renegade for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 29 at Saratoga.
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Bracket Buster ran so well returning from a nine-month layoff Aug. 9 in the West Virginia Governor’s Stakes that he forced trainer Vicki Oliver to alter plans.
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Featured race 6, a second-level turf allowance open to $62,500 claimers and carded for 1 1/4 miles on grass, drew a paceless, inscrutable field of just six older horses.
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Rebel With a Cause was no match for Outfielder in the William Walker Stakes at Churchill Downs in May. There may be a few reasons to believe Rebel With a Cause can fare better on Sunday when the two meet again in the Grade 3, $225,000 Mahony Stakes.