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Piper’s Factor, fresh off lowering the 7 1/2-furlong inner-turf course record in a conditioned allowance, will negotiate that course and distance again against tougher company in the Grade 2, $200,000 Connaught Cup on Sunday.
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Ryan Moore’s World Pool blog: Irish Oaks Stakes Day.
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Crowned by a string of record-breaking highs and global accolades, a spectacular 2025/26 Hong Kong racing season drew to a close at Happy Valley on Wednesday (15 July).
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George Weaver will almost certainly scratch Cy Fair, the morning-line favorite, from Sunday's Grade 3, $225,000 Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga, but he'll still have the horse to beat in Johnny's Red Storm.
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Rhetorical, the two-time Grade 1-winning New York-bred, returned to the work tab on Wednesday at Churchill Downs and if all continues to go well he will make the Grade 1 Fourstardave here on Aug. 8.
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Baeza, the Grade 1 Stephen Foster runner-up, worked five furlongs in 1:01.64 over the Oklahoma training track Friday morning as he continues preparations for a start in the Grade 1 Whitney at Sartoga on Aug. 8.
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Woodbine canceled Friday’s live Thoroughbred card due to poor air quality in the greater Toronto area.
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On Thursday night, trainer Cherie DeVaux got to hang out with some of the most important people in the sports world at an event in New York City. On Friday morning, her most important horse, got back to work in Kentucky.
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Todd Pletcher had a busy morning on the main track Friday at Saratoga, working a very diverse group of 18 horses that consisted of several older stakes runners and a large number of 2-year-olds prepping for their career debuts.
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Longbranch Lou has earned three victories in $12,500 starter allowances on synthetic since February and will tackle the same condition at 1 1/16 miles on Monday at Gulfstream Park.
