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Pietro Moran leads the Woodbine jockey standings by a 58-52 margin over Fraser Aebly. Surprisingly, neither of them have a mount in Friday's nominal feature, the seventh on an eight-race card, a $25,000 conditioned claiming race headed by King Rosso.
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Tying the Harrah's Hoosier Park track record for 2-year-old pacing fillies of 1:49 2/5 set by My Girl EJ in 2023, Fitterjake, driven by Anthony Miller for trainer Aaron Stutzman, wired the six-horse field to etch her name in Harrah's Hoosier Park history in the first group of Indiana Sire Stakes action for that group on Tuesday night.
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Two-year-old colt and gelding pacers, taking part in New York Sire Stakes action, were featured on the Tuesday card at Saratoga Casino Hotel. There were two divisions, which each went for a purse of $74,500, and driver Jason Bartlett continued his Sire Stakes success, completing a sweep of the "double features" behind Marie's Jet and Rose Run Cowboy on the matinee program.
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Banana Beach rebounded from a runner-up finish in the Kentucky Sire Stakes final at Oak Grove with a narrow win in the back-half sprint of the opening preliminary for the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 4) at The Red Mile.
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Big Ranger, who won one of last week’s two eliminations for the Winning Key Farm Hambletonian at The Meadowlands, drew post 4 for Saturday’s $1 million Grade 1 final and was made the 2-1 morning-line favorite.
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Robby Albarado, a classic-winning jockey who was the regular rider of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin and won more than 5,000 races in a career that spanned more than three decades, has died in his sleep presumably due to heart-related issues.
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Despite being defeated by Busy Miss Lissy S in her elimination last Saturday (Aug. 1), 10-time winner Nezuko Kamado S has been installed the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the 56th edition of the $500,000 Grade 1 Hambletonian Oaks.
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Derick Giwner's analysis of the Thursday 8/6 card at The Meadowlands.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/6 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/6 card at Yonkers Raceway.
