Collected and West Coast, second and third in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar last November, are rejoining trainer Bob Baffert's stable for autumn campaigns after being rested in recent months in Kentucky.
Honour and Glory, a Grade 1 winner by Relaunch who has stood the last five years in Uruguay, died on Tuesday at Haras Rapetti stud farm in Uruguay after fracturing his femur, according to South American news reports.
For a two-time Grade 1 winner last year, Paradise Woods has been in a rut this season, with losses in two graded stakes at Santa Anita. A move to turf could revive her career.
Abel Tasman, impressive winner of the Ogden Phipps in her last start on June 9 at Belmont Park, worked six furlongs in 1:12 on Wednesday morning at Del Mar for a start either here or at Saratoga.
In a span of nine days last summer, the horses who would go on to be voted champion 2-year-old male and champion 2-year-old female debuted at Saratoga. Good Magic lost his debut. Caledonia Road won hers.
Nine maiden winners from six different tracks as well as a stakes-placed maiden comprise a competitive field of 10 2-year-old fillies entered in Friday's Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville, the first of 61 stakes this summer at Saratoga.
A fire that occurred in a trailer transporting horses from Kentucky to New York on Tuesday killed three mares and their foals, according to the farm where the horses were to be boarded.
Larry Jones is finished. Not with training Thoroughbreds, but riding them every morning. Jones long has been known for doing what other trainers his age and weight have rarely done – exercise his own horses.
