If you like handicapping graded stakes races you’ll want to spend Sunday watching and wagering on the races at Monmouth Park, where five of the 14 races scheduled are graded stakes, including the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational.
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Unbridled’s Song, a Grade 1 winner and one of the top commercial sires of his generation, was euthanized on Friday after a large mass was discovered in multiple sinus cavities and around his optic nerves, leading to a rapid decline in health. He was 20.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 7/28 card at Balmoral Park.
The Diana Handicap has nothing but top-class grass females, including four Grade 1 winners and last year’s runner-up, and is an intriguing handicapping puzzle.
Elusive Kate won the Group 1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville, France, last July, and will be favored to win the one-mile turf race for fillies and mares again on Sunday.
When R.A. "Cowboy" Jones climbed aboard the favorite in the second race Tuesday at Fairmount Park in southern Illinois, he sent certain folks scurrying to see if he was on the threshold of becoming the oldest Thoroughbred jockey ever to win a race in the United States.
Funny Proposition will try to continue her ascension in the older filly and mare division, while Joyful Victory will try to regain her status as an early season division leader when the two meet in Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Bruno Schickedanz has never been one to think small.
Take Charge Indy and Hymn Book, a pair of Grade 1 winners, try to recapture past glory on Sunday in the Grade 2, $200,000 Monmouth Cup.
The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will conduct a pedigree and conformation clinic on Monday, August 5, and a Thoroughbred ownership seminar on Thursday, August 8, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
