Freudie Anne will try to remain perfect on the grass Thursday, when she heads a field of nine scheduled to run in the $100,000 Statue of Liberty division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Saratoga. The field for the one-mile race includes Amazing Anne, who just ran second against males in Monday’s Cab Calloway division of the Stallion Stakes.
Sam’s Sister, best known for her win in the Grade 1 La Brea last December, and Taris, who has been idle since finishing second in the La Brea, are scheduled to meet anew Sunday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap for older female sprinters.
Conflict over a federal bill that would install the United States Anti-Doping Agency as the overseer of U.S. racing’s drug policies spilled out into the open on Tuesday at the Saratoga Institute on Equine, Racing, and Gaming Law Conference in Saratoga Springs.
Although Martin Garcia has been the regular work and race rider for Bayern, it was Rafael Bejarano who was aboard the horse for a seven-furlong work Tuesday morning as Bayern prepares for the Pacific Classic and seeks to find the form that carried him to a Breeders’ Cup Classic victory last fall.
Trainer John Terranova has been enjoying a magnificent summer and he thinks he has American Pharoah to thank.
The likelihood that Beholder will take on males in the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 22 increased Tuesday when she “could not have looked better,” according to trainer Richard Mandella, during a half-mile work in 48.60 seconds at Del Mar.
Trainer Tom Morley said Tuesday morning that he’s still strongly considering bringing his 3-year-old filly Amazing Anne back in Thursday’s $100,000 New York Stallion Series Stakes following her second-place finish against males in the open division of the race on Monday.
Rainbow North has yet to win a race for trainer Dan Hendricks since he was claimed for $16,000 back in February, but his form has improved demonstrably since being sent two turns on turf. He comes off a pair of runner-up finishes and has a good chance to go one better Thursday in the featured seventh race at Del Mar.
After the Gulfstream Park invader Off the Tracks ran away to a 3 1/4-length victory on opening day in the Schuylerville Stakes, it was only logical that others from south Florida might try to follow in her footsteps.
Social Inclusion, the third-place finisher in last year’s Wood Memorial, Preakness, and Woody Stephens, has been transferred to trainer Juan Carlos Guerrero at Parx Racing.
