Red Rifle continued to show his versatility while seemingly improving with age after parlaying a picture-perfect ride by Javier Castellano into a 2 1/2-length victory over War Dancer in Saturday’s $250,000 Bowling Green at Saratoga.
R Dub won his third straight race Saturday at Arapahoe Park, where he darted to a 1 1/4-length win over Let the Boy Sing in the $35,000 colts and geldings division of the Silver Cup Futurity.
Madefromlucky bounced back from his sixth-place finish in the Belmont Stakes by rallying wide under Joe Bravo to defeat Souper Colossal by 1 1/2 lengths Saturday in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Racetrack.
In a thrilling stretch drive in Saturday's Alfred Vanderebilt at Saratoga, it was the Todd Pletcher-trained Rock Fall nosing out the John Velazquez-ridden The Big Beast in a race where Velazquez lost his whip inside the three-sixteenths pole.
Room for Me has found new life since being claimed earlier this year and sent east, and she scored her biggest win yet Saturday when rolling to a 5 3/4-length victory in the $77,500 Regret Stakes for female sprinters at Monmouth Park.
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Falling Sky held off a surging Ledokol by a head to win the $75,000 Trinniberg on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Northfield, Hoosier, Yonkers and others.
Horses to watch from Monticello Raceway.
Claimed for a mere $5,000 less than four months earlier, Looks to Spare pulled a 74-1 stunner Saturday when striding away from nine other older horses in the $200,000 West Virginia Governor’s Stakes at Mountaineer Park.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 8/3 card at Yonkers Raceway.
