It’s been nine years since Peaceful Way became the last female trotter to win the Maple Leaf Trot, but two ladies will be front and center when eliminations for the prestigious event are contested Saturday at Mohawk Racetrack. Both Bee A Magician and D'One are considered major contenders in the rich trotting event.
There’s no clear-cut favorite in the Grade 2, $400,000 race Saturday at Louisiana Downs, with The Pickett Factor, Allied Air Raid, and Prime Engine looking like the chief players in the field of seven that also includes multiple stakes winners Mobile Bay and Four Leaf Chief.
After a terrific Saratoga meet where he won 7 races from 19 starters, trainer Barclay Tagg was back at Belmont Park Thursday making fall plans for many of those runners.
Seven stakes, including the Grade 3 Berkeley Handicap and four stakes for 2-year-old runners, are scheduled to be conducted at the Golden Gate Fields fall meeting
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin still needs to talk to the principals of Godolphin Racing, but all indications are that Frosted is likely to run in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 19.
V. E. Day may have found some class relief in Saturday’s $200,000 Temperence Hill Stakes at Belmont Park, but he also may have found himself in a race so void of pace it could hurt his chances.
There is plenty of historic precedent for an owner-trainer to dominate 2-year-old racing out West. Give a good, aggressive barn the right kind of ammunition, enjoy the right kind of luck, and the targets will fall.
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The accomplished New York invader Lea has been made the 5-2 morning-line favorite for Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile.
Though the Grade 3, $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup is the main event Monday at Kentucky Downs, the nine-race undercard, which includes three stakes for $300,000 apiece, offers some intriguing warm-up acts.
