Tonalist sticking with Plan A
Tonalist worked five furlongs in 1:01.98 Friday morning over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track for his attempt at defending his Jockey Club Gold Cup title.
David GreningSep 03, 2015
Tonalist worked five furlongs in 1:01.98 Friday morning over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track for his attempt at defending his Jockey Club Gold Cup title.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Saturday 9/5 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Coming off a very strong second-place finish in the Grade 1 Test going seven furlongs, Bar of Gold will shorten up to to six furlongs for Sunday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Prioress Stakes.
Trainer Chad Brown’s talented turf runners will be on display again Saturday at Saratoga when he runs a trio of contenders in the Grade 3, $300,000 Saranac Stakes for 3-year-olds and two in the Grade 3, $200,000 Glens Falls Stakes for fillies and mares.
Effinex should get a far better race flow, might be Liam’s Map equal in any case, and is 4-1 on the morning-line, which makes him an appealing play in Saturday’s Woodward Stakes at Saratoga.
Wild in the Saddle, refreshed from an early summer trip to the farm, won her second stakes of 2015 in the $108,330 Tranquility Lake Stakes for fillies and mares Wednesday at Del Mar.
The impression lingers that American Pharoah is always in some form of demand beyond his daily training routine. He has posed for magazine spreads and entertained politicians. There are the stall door photo-ops, the celebrity strolls around the walking ring, the on-camera appearances to nuzzle news talent and pose for a mainstream television audience.
Santa Anita will reopen for training Saturday in advance of the autumn meeting that begins Sept. 26.
The Grade 3, $100,000 Boiling Springs Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday is a head-scratcher in the first degree.
There will be some familiar names in the starting gate for Monday’s Grade 1 Hopeful, and one not so familiar to local fans – Bullet Gone Astray, who will give trainer Henry Collazo his first stakes opportunity at Saratoga.