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Tioga: Savage Cindy, Surreal Spirit victorious in New York Sire Stakes
Sophomore pacing fillies battled in two New York Sire Stakes divisions on Sunday afternoon's program at Tioga Downs.
Greg ReinhartAug 23, 2026
Sophomore pacing fillies battled in two New York Sire Stakes divisions on Sunday afternoon's program at Tioga Downs.
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Five Grade 1 winners, led by millionaires Ways and Means, R Disaster and Kilwin, top a field of 12 older fillies and mares entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Stakes, one of five undercard stakes on the 14-race Travers Day program.
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The complexion of Sunday’s $200,000 Albany Stakes at Saratoga changed the moment the gates opened: Tricky Business came away alertly from his inside post, Talk to Me Jimmy broke at the rear of the seven-horse field.
Aventure scored a sharp win in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet on Sunday at Deauville Racecourse in France, handing favored Diamond Necklace the first defeat of her career, and doing so handily.
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Jose Ortiz, a three-time leading rider at Saratoga who is 0 for 10 in the Travers, will be aboard Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo against nine rivals in the Travers, the highlight of a 14-race card with six graded stakes.
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Happy Offering, a steadily improving gelding trained by Chuck Spina, earned his first New Jersey-bred stakes victory in the $100,000 Charles Hesse III Handicap on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Totally Justified won just the third race of her career by running down 1-2 favorite Lush Lips, who was making her first start since February, in the $175,000 Ellis Park Turf on Sunday.
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There are pivotal decisions looming for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Racing and trainer Bill Mott regarding race plans for Knightsbridge, the runaway winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
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The 3-year-old filly My Gun’s Loaded, a neck winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga, will most likely take on older females in her next start with the options being the Grade 2, $250,000 Beldame at Belmont Park on Sept. 25 or the Grade 1, $650,000 Spinster at Keeneland on Oct. 4.
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Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., dealing with a nagging foot injury, will not ride again at Saratoga this summer, and is now pointing to a Sept. 3 return at Kentucky Downs, according to his agent Steve Rushing.