Andy Po Po (#2, ML 6-1) returns in Wednesday's seventh race at Indiana Grand, a 1 1/16-mile allowance on turf. It will be his first start since finishing third by 1 3/4 lengths in an allowance June 12 at Indiana Grand. The first-, fourth-, sixth-, and seventh-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
Horses to watch from Pocono Downs.
Horses to watch from Mohawk Racetrack.
With the career-ending injury to Sebastian K announced just last week, the older trotting ranks are in need of some new blood. Almost if on cue, Magic Tonight and D’One—North American born trotters who have been racing in Sweden—will qualify at the Meadowlands on Saturday with the hopes of competing in the John Cashman Memorial eliminations over the same oval on August 1.
Week 2 at Del Mar opens with a very contentious card, and I will be looking at different types of races to try to take advantage of the opportunities.
The catalog for the 2015 Equine Sales Co. of Louisiana select yearling sale is now available online with 188 horses on offer.
In today's DRF Breeding Today newsletter, we are introducing a new publication for readers -- the Weekly Stakes Report, which provides owners, breeders, and industry participants and fans with comprehensive results of all stakes races held in North America.
A week and a day after Del Mar opens in Southern California, Saratoga kicks off its meet in upstate New York. Saratoga has always been the place that top trainers take their best horses for the summer, at least on the East Coast, and in recent years the meet has been dominated by two trainers: Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown. Together, the pair has won nearly 300 races there in the past five years, with Pletcher generally excelling on dirt and Brown ruling the grass.
Celestine will bring a four-race winning streak into Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Lake George Stakes, but there’s a good chance she won’t even be favored in the 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.
A U.S. Senate committee has approved a document that would extend tax-depreciation rules that are favorable to horse and farm owners, according to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, which lobbies the federal government on racing issues.
