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Meadowlands: Analysis for Saturday 10/18
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 10/18 card at The Meadowlands.
Derick GiwnerOct 16, 2025
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 10/18 card at The Meadowlands.
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Touchuponastar's primary objective for the remainder of the year is the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic on Dec. 13 at Fair Grounds, according to his owner, Jake Delhomme.
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A win in the Group 1 St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot in Britain in June clinched Field of Gold's status as one of the finest 3-year-old milers in Europe. A win in Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at the same venue can restore his reputation after a disappointing fourth in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in July.
Grade 1 winners from California, Oklahoma, and Texas will meet in New Mexico on Saturday night in the $265,000 American Quarter Horse Association Challenge Championship at the Downs at Albuquerque.
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Trainer Phil Antonacci and his family's Lindy Farms made a big investment in Ready for Candy, purchasing the then-maiden for $400,000 out of the Fasig-Tipton mixed sale in February. Saturday, Ready for Candy will go for the hat trick when she stretches back out to 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 2, $200,000 Sands Point for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.
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No one would bat an eye if Ragtime showed up in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. But instead of racing Nov. 1 at Del Mar, Ragtime runs Saturday at Keeneland. She sticks with the 3-year-old filly set over the only distance she's ever raced, seven furlongs, in the Grade 2, $400,000 Raven Run.
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Saturday's Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot will be the 2025 series decider between the accomplished pair of Ombudsman and Delacroix with one important caveat – the French shipper Calandagan is on a two-race winning streak, adores Ascot, and has outstanding credentials of his own.
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It's been a long time between wins for most runners entered in the $80,000 Lure Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita, which is sort of the point. The turf mile is restricted to horses who have not won a stakes race this year other than California-bred. This year's Lure field took it to the extreme. Six of the seven entrants have not won any type race in more than a year, including a veteran gelding who upset the Lure in 2024.
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With the Oct. 4 Fall Classic Handicap at Hastings having been declared a no contest due to a spill, the race will be rerun at the shortened distance of 1 1/8 miles on Saturday.
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The text message, summarizing Snap Decision's condition in advance of Saturday's Grade 1 American Grand National Hurdle at Far Hills, N.J, went quickly to the point. “He's flying,” jockey Graham Watters wrote recently to co-owner Mike Hankin. “We can't get him anymore ready than he is, great form.”