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Florida-based trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. had a perfect Memorial Day at Santa Anita last year, winning the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes with Be Your Best and the Grade 2 Hollywood Gold Cup with Skippylongstocking.
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Owner Peter Brant, who has enjoyed immense success over the last eight years since teaming up exclusively with Chad Brown, has moved approximately 75 percent of his stable from the five-time Eclipse Award winning trainer, sending runners to Bill Mott, Riley Mott, and Miguel Clement, Brant confirmed Thursday.
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Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at The Meadowlands.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Saturday 5/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Saturday Afternoon 5/16 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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The state of Maryland is considering whether to exercise an option that would allow it to match an $85 million deal made by Churchill Downs Inc. to buy a package of intellectual property rights related to the Preakness Stakes, according to officials with knowledge of the process.
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Saturday, before a capped attendance of 4,800 at well-worn Laurel Park, a field of 14 will go postward to contest the 151st Preakness. It's the eighth time the Preakness has had 14, the first since 2011. For what the Preakness lacks in star power, it makes up for as an intriguing handicapping puzzle.
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Cruise the Nile has passed every test so far for trainer Graham Motion and will take a much deserved step up in the Grade 3, $250,000 Dinner Party Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park. Unbeaten since switching to turf in December, the 4-year-old gelding will surge into his graded stakes debut with momentum to spare.
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Last year, trainer Elizabeth Merryman and jockey Flavien Prat met in the winner's circle at Pimlico after the deep closer Witty rocketed from the back to win the $125,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint. If the trainer and jockey run it back in the same race on Saturday at Laurel Park, they will likely do it with a vastly different trip from Jean Valjean.
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A few hours before trainer Brittany Russell, her husband, jockey Sheldon Russell, and the ownership partnership headed by SF Racing, Starlight Racing, and Madaket Stables send out local hopeful Taj Mahal in the Preakness Stakes, they get Saturday at Laurel Park going with another 3-year-old who seems to be blossoming in Maryland. Falcon Jet makes his stakes debut in the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes, for 3-year-olds who have not yet won an open stakes.
