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Trainer Bill Mott entered Parchment Party for the main track only, which, if the weather forecast holds, leaves eight grass horses to run two miles in the Grade 2, $250,000 Gold Cup. This race once offered a much larger purse and drew solid European entrants, but the only thing close to a Euro invader this year is Irish expatriate Fleetfoot – though, at 12-1 on the morning line, he could offer decent value.
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Trainer Brian Lynch said connections scratched Mae Town from the Unbridled Sidney Stakes on May 1 at Churchill Downs because the race looked too tough. Now, Mae Town looks tough in the featured eighth race Wednesday at Churchill.
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Commandment seems to be the forgotten horse of this year's Triple Crown heading into Saturday's $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. Despite being a multiple graded stakes winner and one of just three Grade 1 winners in the field, there doesn't seem to be much buzz surrounding Commandment, who finished seventh in the Kentucky Derby, beaten 5 1/2 lengths by Golden Tempo.
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Chad Brown is a numbers guy. But he's also a realist. He knows that just because he has a third of the field entered in Saturday's $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga doesn't mean he's going to be successful.
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Imagine the Moon, who will start as the probable favorite in the $100,000 Shelby County Handicap on Wednesday at Horseshoe Indianapolis, is a high-maintenance mare looking to repear in the Shelby. Imagine the Moon tops a field of nine Indiana-sired fillies and mares.
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After proving competitive in a series of two-turn races on the Kentucky Derby trail, Bravaro will shorten up in distance and return to statebred company when topping a strong field of nine 3-year-old New York-breds, including the recently untouchable Sculcos Folly, on Wednesday at Saratoga in the $200,000 Mike Lee Stakes.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 6/2 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Gratefully will put her undefeated record on the line against the toughest group she's met to date when she steps up in class in Thursday's Grade 2, $250,000 Intercontinental Stakes at Saratoga.
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The iconic Phipps Stable, one of the long-standing breeding and racing outfits considered racing royalty, has endured, even with some changes. Golden Tempo, a homebred for the Phipps Stable now under the leadership of Ogden Phipps II and sister Daisy Phipps-Pulito, in partnership with Vinnie and Teresa Viola's St. Elias Stables, won the Kentucky Derby and now comes to the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga looking for another jewel.
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Much has happened since Zac Purton stepped off a plane in Hong Kong in 2007 as a fresh-faced 24-year-old with little profile beyond Australia. Nineteen seasons later, the Australian stands alone as the first jockey to ride 2,000 winners in the city, a milestone reached at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 May) that further cemented his place among the giants of Hong Kong racing.
