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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Saturday 7/4/26
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Saturday 7/4 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Kevin PlowchaJul 02, 2026
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Saturday 7/4 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Expectations were low for sophomore filly trotter Charlotte Elise in the third leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes. Despite drawing the rail, she went off as a 43-1 longshot. Even some of her connections were skeptical that a win was within reach.
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After respectable, albeit non-winning, runs in the English 1000 Guineas and Irish 1000 Guineas, Abashiri has found her way to America, where Saturday she'll likely go postward as the favorite in the Grade 1, $600,000 Belmont Oaks at Saratoga.
A dangerous heat dome is currently affecting Northern New Jersey – which includes East Rutherford – bringing stifling humidity and heat index values in the upper 90s to low 100s through the July 4 weekend.
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Missed the Cut will be looking for the fifth stakes win of his career Saturday, when he takes on Group 1 winner Gran Oriente and fellow stakes winners Layabout, Tomasello, and Tank in a competitive $100,000 Soldier's Dancer Handicap at Gulfstream Park.
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After two cards were postponed due to extreme heat in Kentucky, Ellis Park should get to kick off its summer meet on Saturday with a Fourth of July card highlighted by the $175,000 Dade Park Dash.
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Stars and Stripes may be more than just a hunch play in the Grade 2, $500,000 Suburban Stakes on Saturday's Fourth of July program at Saratoga.
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Title Role and Pacific Avenue finished one-two in the Jumeirah 2000 Guineas in Dubai in February, and both have maintained good form in the interim. Saturday, the pair of European invaders bring that form to Saratoga, where they'll face eight U.S.-based 3-year-olds in a seemingly wide-open renewal of the Grade 1, $750,000 Belmont Derby at Saratoga.
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Howard Wolfendale, a longtime trainer in Maryland whose best horses were hardy runners plucked out of claiming races, died on Thursday night in Mechanicsburg, Pa., of complications from a stroke he suffered the previous week.
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In his second start as a 7-year-old, There Are No Words could get a true chance to shine in the $75,000 Irish War Cry Handicap on Saturday at Monmouth Park.